THIS MORNING I did the unpredictable – I walked the entire perimeter of my neighbourhood – approximately a mile-and-a-half – close to 2½ kilometers for the rest of the world. (I’ll have to drive my car the entire trek to determine the actual distance.)
Sky: Mostly Cloudy
Temperature: 69°F
Relative Humidity: 95%
Winds: NW 8 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.04 RISING
My thoughts:
1. My iPod Shuffle came along for the walk this morning. All of my smash hits on it provided a great beat to walk to.
2. One of those smash hits that played as I walked alone was the Christian speed-metal-romp “Writing On The Walls” courtesy of Underoath. Its lyrics include the prominent (screaming) verse ‘We walk alone !’
3. There were a bunch of other walkers out and about on this most glorious Christmas Day morning. Some of them were walking alone, and some of them were walking their dog(s). There was even a nice older yellowish cat walking alone. He / She looked at me with love rather than fear. This cat somehow knew that I was a lifelong friend to the feline populace.
4. There’s a new ‘Key West style’ townhouse development going up just over the southern perimeter fence of my neighbourhood. I hadn’t seen it before.
5. This was a 25-minute walk for me. There was only one thing that I wanted as soon as I walked back in to my home, and that my friends was a MASSIVE gulp of Zephyrhills Natural Spring Water.
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3 replies on “The Major’s Walk-A-Thon”
Great work. Is this nothing more than a spontaneous burst of “walking energy” that ironically exploded 2 days in a row, OR are you attempting to put into place a new habitual exercise in your life?
The latter. You and your brother are the inspiration behind this sudden and spontaneous exercise regimen.
Pastor Paul taught us this past Sunday morning that ‘Leaving The Good For The Best’ requires obedience and leaving behind the comfortable life. If you’re comfortable then you’re not really moving forward and living.
You inspired me by blogging about your ‘Morning Walks’ virtually every day and providing some of the most interesting reading material to date regarding it all.
I figured that I can do that too. I can get up from the comfort of this living room couch, go outside, and walk a journey as part of this fantastic journey. I can then blog all about it.
This is the start of a fresh new exercise regimen in my Life. Although it won’t be a daily event it will be a regular event whether I walk around my neighbourhood (and pray for my neighbours) or walk around the air base that I work at (and pray for my co-workers).
Keep checking back on my progress, and keep inspiring me.
You’re pretty inspirational yourself, mi amigo. Feliz Navidad! (I’m missing Miami weather & driving already!)