"Walk yourself thin"
Sep. 19th, 2011 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI've talked about my running progress, but I haven't really done one post talking about my walking (although I know I've mentioned it offhand at various times).
I've done the occasional big walk to work (as I've posted about before), but those are less viable as I need to stay home long enough to make sure Elayna's awake (and thus can't leave as early as I used to). I'll get the occasional one in when she's off from school and I'm not, but those days are few and far between, and aren't really indicative of my regular routine.
Previously, I walked about .75 miles to the bus each morning, and about .5 from the bus to work. Repeating in the evening, that's about 2.5 miles a day, which probably wasn't terrible to begin with.
Since I switched to getting off my bus in central Waltham, I now walk the same .75 miles to start with, followed by a 1.9 mile into work (this also gives me the option of taking the 70A if it comes first). On the way home, I'll take either the same 1.9 route, or a shorter 1.4 one back to central Waltham. Once there, I can take the 70/70a, or I can take any of the assorted 55x buses that hit Newton Corner before heading out of town. Any of those latter ones put me at yet another 1.9 mile walk from home. The 70 puts me at about a mile (I get off a little further away than where I board in the morning).
The tl;dr* version: On any given weekday, I'm walking anywhere from 4.8 to 6.45 miles. I also do a 1.5 mile jog on some of those mornings.
I'm still not thin by any definition of the word, but man, are my legs getting toned.
(Needless to say, I dread rainy days, but have managed to avoid most of them. I'm also not looking forward to the inevitable "Boston is covered in a sheet of ice" days.)
*tl;dr (too long; didn't calculate) probably makes more sense, I suppose.
I've done the occasional big walk to work (as I've posted about before), but those are less viable as I need to stay home long enough to make sure Elayna's awake (and thus can't leave as early as I used to). I'll get the occasional one in when she's off from school and I'm not, but those days are few and far between, and aren't really indicative of my regular routine.
Previously, I walked about .75 miles to the bus each morning, and about .5 from the bus to work. Repeating in the evening, that's about 2.5 miles a day, which probably wasn't terrible to begin with.
Since I switched to getting off my bus in central Waltham, I now walk the same .75 miles to start with, followed by a 1.9 mile into work (this also gives me the option of taking the 70A if it comes first). On the way home, I'll take either the same 1.9 route, or a shorter 1.4 one back to central Waltham. Once there, I can take the 70/70a, or I can take any of the assorted 55x buses that hit Newton Corner before heading out of town. Any of those latter ones put me at yet another 1.9 mile walk from home. The 70 puts me at about a mile (I get off a little further away than where I board in the morning).
The tl;dr* version: On any given weekday, I'm walking anywhere from 4.8 to 6.45 miles. I also do a 1.5 mile jog on some of those mornings.
I'm still not thin by any definition of the word, but man, are my legs getting toned.
(Needless to say, I dread rainy days, but have managed to avoid most of them. I'm also not looking forward to the inevitable "Boston is covered in a sheet of ice" days.)
*tl;dr (too long; didn't calculate) probably makes more sense, I suppose.