Walking Like It's My Job

Life in Ireland involves a lot of walking.

Even down in the country, people walk into town, walk to neighbors for a visit, and of course, walk to and from the pub.

In the city, it's no different. And in my situation, there's as much walking as you can get, since I don't have a car or bike and I live 30 min walk from the Luas, which is the tram that takes me anywhere I need to go.

So, as an experiment, I began tracking my walks on my personal training log on mapmyrun.com. I keep a Map My Run account to log runs that I do--how much time they take, where the runs were, etc. But I decided to add any walks over 2 miles to the log too, just to see how much walking I was doing.

Well, the result is pretty hefty, I think! After almost a month of tracking my normal day-to-day walking (and one lousy half mile run), I've hoofed it over 75 miles!

It's only resulted in a mere 5165 calories burned, or four Doritos, but the fitness of it must be good. And it feels good, too, to get up in the morning and do my 45 min walk to work, get my heartrate up, blood pumping, birds chirping, dew on the grass, sunrise, etc. It's a nice way to wake up.

Anyway (omg I was just about to say anywho. how school-marmish is that?! Set me up with a quilting bee and sensible square heels and call it a day!)..........anyWAY, that's all the time I have for today. I'm very very busy working on these company Christmas gifts.....yes, apparently there was NO ONE in Ireland who could fulfill the role of mostly-internet-surfing, occasional-word-doc-formatting, Christmas-basket-organizing guru, so they had to fly an expert in from The States. How sensical.

Good Wednesday! Only 16 days til I'm home!!!