Walking

I wanted to post a few items here concerning how I have managed to reach seventy-seven without succumbing to disease or heart failure etc. It is mostly just because my time to go has held off taking me as yet. I mean, I take regular showers! Oh well, if I took this type of thing seriously or worried about it I suppose I would not be here?

After I turned sixty-five I got to thinking that I needed some reasonably strenuous exercise. If walking doesn’t seem strenuous you are less than fifty years old. At sixty-five, and a back screwed up in combat, I had to pick and choose what type of exercise I began. Walking was it and I have not stopped since then. I used to practice judo and karate but throwing or being thrown is not a recommendation option when ones back is a basket case. Walking fits nicely into my routine as I have always loved to walk.

My speed is generally averaged at 3.3 mph. I only know that because my wife gave me a Samsung Galaxy watch four Christmases ago. I used pedometers before that and they lasted about a half year and it never failed that they gave out on one of my six or seven mile walks. That sucked because I knew I had walked five and one half miles but after that the pedometer failed, in more ways than one.

If you see me speeding through your neighborhood wave and I’ll wave back. I won’t stop to shoot the breeze because once I begin the only thing that can stop me is my back. I hate that part.

Walking is good for the mind and the spirit. It is not competitive so it allows time for such things as figuring out why a thing doesn’t work, like your car’s motor, or, if you’re like me, a time for prayer. Prayer and walking go hand in hand as the head is clear and the eyes open to the mind. I recommend it no matter your age. It is good for you and beats the hell out of a gym membership.

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