So, yesterday I'm out walking. My favorite local parks is hilly and has a ton of trails. The longest trail takes more than 2 hours, but you can stay in there forever, by looping around, or picking up new trails. When I first started out, I got to around 4000 steps, and was like, "This sucks. I don't feel so great. I want to go home!" I think I ate breakfast too late and just felt weak and crappy. I noticed that I had also done the equivalent of 11 flights of stairs.
I figured if I got to 10k steps, I'd leave. By the time I got to 10k, I felt better, and kept going. When I got closer to 20k, I was ready to cash it in, but then I noticed that I had logged 77 flights of stairs. So of course I had to keep going until 100. When I had 100 flights, I also had 25k steps. Woo hoo! Click below to see my fabulous badges!
Why yes, yes I CAN walk 5k more steps! (After laying down for an hour, we went bowling!)
So now I have this crazy harebrained scheme. If I can walk/hike 30k steps, or around 15 miles--and clearly I can--then how about 26.2 miles? I'm thinking of trying it next Saturday. I'm pretty sure at the rate I walk, it would take around 8 hours. (The park is near a Dunkin Donuts, so I can always walk over and caffeinate and get a bagel in between.) I think it would be fun to walk/hike a marathon.
The weather shows rain for next Saturday, so if I have to push it off a week, so be it.
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