‘My’ stop sign
Posted on June 24, 2008
Filed Under All, Dawn Community, New Life |
Stanford, or maybe Santa Clara County, may think it’s their stop sign, but I think of this as my stop sign. It happens to be almost exactly one mile from my back gate, and is the current goal of my thrice-weekly 2-mile walks.
I started walking in earnest a couple of weeks ago, and am now up to 2 miles, which has required 90 minutes to walk the last 3 times out (1.33 mph). My goal is to walk 2 miles an hour (my pre-cancer pace was 3 mph) which means I would be company, albeit slow, for others. Accordingly, rehab specialist Heidi Engel has changed my gym treadmill routine and other exercises, aiming at a swifter pace. At my current speed, toddlers and the elderly easily blow by me…
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But hey, 2 miles, that’s a new record. Great going.
Yup. And we’re proud, real proud…
With $300 billion in mortgage entitlements, maybe you can buy the stopsign.
[...] Thanks to pacing this morning by sweet spouse Linda who patiently (!) walked the 2 miles with me, I did the ‘stop sign’ circuit in one hour and ten minutes, shaving 7 minutes off my previous personal best. Even better, I walked the first 1.5 miles (also a new personal best) without the cane… [...]