My Walking Challenge

Last week I looked at a website called http://www.thewalkingsite.com . I found it doing a Google/A9 search for "marathon walking" -- that's a far-off goal. However, they had just started a "Beginners Fall Walking Challenge," so I joined their group on Yahoo. They set a goal for each week. Last week the goal was walking four days out of week for 15 minutes each day. Since I had been walking intermittently before that, I usually walked 30-60 minutes, instead. But the challenge did discipline me into walking four days, and I made myself walk at times of the day when I might have otherwise shrugged it off.

This week, the goal is walking five days for at least 20 minutes each day. I've already completed two of the five days. (As you can see in a prior post, I even combined it with my errands.) Again, I made myself walk when I might not have otherwise, so I think it's been a good motivator for me thus far. Of course, it's helped that the weather here in Kentucky has been so beautiful. I'm not sure what the site's suggestion for walking in bad weather is. I'll have to look.