Spring 2017 Dog Walking Challenge
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Hello Everyone!
Walking Buddies: April & Keesh(Keshia) 9 year old English Setter/Labrador Retriever.
Weekly Goal: Walk about 3-5 miles!
How long/far did you walk this week?: we got about 2.5
Successes:One Nice day where we got a decent half hour!
Challenges:Mother Nature has changed soo many times this week
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@W0rldWarME Keesh is so sweet looking in this photo, very adorable! Welcome, nice work on your first week
we totally sympathize with the weather issues! 1 -
Walking Buddy: Pepper
Weekly Goal: 30 mins 3x/week, starting 6/4 (I'm out of town).
How long/far did you walk this week?:
Successes:
Challenges:
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WickAndArtoo wrote: »@W0rldWarME Keesh is so sweet looking in this photo, very adorable! Welcome, nice work on your first week we totally sympathize with the weather issues!
Thank you! Yes this weather has been wrecking all my plans, hopefully better weather this week!2 -
LauraInTheWater wrote: »Walking Buddy: Pepper
Weekly Goal: 30 mins 3x/week, starting 6/4 (I'm out of town).
How long/far did you walk this week?:
Successes:
Challenges:
Welcome, Pepper is gorgeous! Loving all the black dogs
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Hi everyone. What a great challenge. I wish I had found it sooner.
Walking buddy: Tuffy, 13 year old Schnoodle.
Weekly goal: 2 miles/40 minutes a day; 5-7 days a week.
This week-13.5 miles
Successes: reached our goal
Challenges: getting up early enough to walk before work.
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I'm going to go ahead and back out of this challenge. I just got a hernia the other day and since my dog is big and sometimes likes to pull I will hold off for now.2
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I have been following with interest, but was waiting to return home from vacation to join.
Walking buddies: Nutty, Sadie, and Lynn (I will try to add pictures, but I'm on my cell and a bit technologically challenged) so pictures may be pending
Goals this week: one hour in the dog park three times this week plus 20 minute walks to make two walks per day.
ETA: can add from the site, not the app
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Hello Everyone!
This challenge is perfect for my little 6 month old Cavalier and me, we walk to the beach everyday for his little swim.
Walking buddy: Cheeks (aka Cheeky Monkey)
Weekly Goal: 5km/day
Success: 5/7
Challenges: rain, mosquitoes, poison ivy and a dead fish he really wanted2 -
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Love the hat!!!0
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My new goal is walking my baby 3 times a day for 12 minutes each time...unless rain dictates otherwise. Today it's a cool 65... Roxie's favorite weather!3
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Thanks! It was for May the 4th1
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Today's park walk:
I don't know how people get pictures of their dogs sitting together all nice. I got them to sit together but then they wouldn't both look at me. The black one belly crawled through the thickest mud puddle she could find. And the white one found something green to roll in (not too foul smelling at least).
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@nutmegoreo fun!! This place looks beautiful I completely know what you mean, I almost never can get them both to look at me either. I almost always can get Wick to look at me but his brother Artoo hates looking at the camera when we are on a walk, he wants to keep exploring. 3
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Yay!
My goal was to walk 5km/day for the week, mission accomplished with 36.3 km!
I started June 4th even thou I didn't post until the 5th, MapMyWalk records Sat to Sat.
Cheeks (my walking buddy) is loving it and has improved his on leash walking with all the practice.
New goal: add some jogging to our walks
Challenges: jogging for any length of time3 -
WickAndArtoo wrote: »@nutmegoreo fun!! This place looks beautiful I completely know what you mean, I almost never can get them both to look at me either. I almost always can get Wick to look at me but his brother Artoo hates looking at the camera when we are on a walk, he wants to keep exploring.
Sorry, I didn't check back until now! I wanted to be able to summarize my week. We have some lovely walking trails in the summer. This one happens to be an off leash park as well. They have several mud puddles for the dogs to cool off in, and there is a river along one side, but it's pretty deep and a bit swift right now, compared to usual. Fortunately, mine only wade in, they don't swim. Sadie still hasn't figured out that she can't catch the waves. It's so cute.
My goal was three one hour dog park walks and 20 minute walks to make up two walks/day. That was a bit ambitious. It would have been 400 minutes total. I didn't get many of the 20 minute walks in, but we did four days at the dog park (some were longer than an hour) for a total of 395 minutes and 28km (my KM, I suspect they did 2-3 times as many).
This week: I am back to full-time work, so will have less time. So: 4 one hour walks at the dog park, and 30 minute walks the other three days. Total time: 330 minutes.
Challenges: jet lag and dogs that seem to keep finding green stuff to roll in.3 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »WickAndArtoo wrote: »@nutmegoreo fun!! This place looks beautiful I completely know what you mean, I almost never can get them both to look at me either. I almost always can get Wick to look at me but his brother Artoo hates looking at the camera when we are on a walk, he wants to keep exploring.
...We have some lovely walking trails in the summer. This one happens to be an off leash park as well. They have several mud puddles for the dogs to cool off in, and there is a river along one side, but it's pretty deep and a bit swift right now, compared to usual. Fortunately, mine only wade in, they don't swim. Sadie still hasn't figured out that she can't catch the waves. It's so cute...
That sounds amazing! Dog heaven! My dog and I have only been taking 20 minute nightly walks around the neighborhood lately. I'm just so busy with work this time of year I haven't gotten out to the trails in the hills...Poor pup!
So I guess this weeks progress was about 2 hours of boring neighborhood walking total. Better than nothing, but I'm sure she'd like to get back out on the trails again.
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nutmegoreo wrote: »WickAndArtoo wrote: »@nutmegoreo fun!! This place looks beautiful I completely know what you mean, I almost never can get them both to look at me either. I almost always can get Wick to look at me but his brother Artoo hates looking at the camera when we are on a walk, he wants to keep exploring.
...We have some lovely walking trails in the summer. This one happens to be an off leash park as well. They have several mud puddles for the dogs to cool off in, and there is a river along one side, but it's pretty deep and a bit swift right now, compared to usual. Fortunately, mine only wade in, they don't swim. Sadie still hasn't figured out that she can't catch the waves. It's so cute...
That sounds amazing! Dog heaven! My dog and I have only been taking 20 minute nightly walks around the neighborhood lately. I'm just so busy with work this time of year I haven't gotten out to the trails in the hills...Poor pup!
So I guess this weeks progress was about 2 hours of boring neighborhood walking total. Better than nothing, but I'm sure she'd like to get back out on the trails again.
Soon...
Ugh, I understand. Honestly, when I'm back to work, I'm a little worried that I won't make it to the park except on weekends, and even then. They do love it so much out there, and I feel better for the air, but between work and school, it's easy enough to justify in my head not taking the extra time to go. I need to convince myself that my mental well-being (as well as theirs) needs to take a higher priority than it has in the past. One thing about all this walking, they have been sleeping very well! They do need some work on their leash walking though.2 -
@nutmegoreo that sounds literally amazing! My dogs are super jealous!!1
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Wasn't our best week, I think we got around 8 miles. We missed a few walks this week due to moving around and traveling for work, back on schedule this week though!
Here's a photo from one of our hikes this week:
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WickAndArtoo wrote: »Wasn't our best week, I think we got around 8 miles. We missed a few walks this week due to moving around and traveling for work, back on schedule this week though!
Here's a photo from one of our hikes this week:
That looks amazing! Love it.1 -
Mission: 35km/week, 5km/day
Success: YES! I had to carry Cheeks a few times but we got it done!
Challenges: poison ivy between my baby toes2 -
Mission: 35km/week, 5km/day
Success: YES! I had to carry Cheeks a few times but we got it done!
Challenges: poison ivy between my baby toes
Terrible challenge! Awesome success!
I wish I could have carried my dog when she laid down in the middle of the trail and refuse to walk. But she's 70 pounds, so nope.2 -
Walking Buddies: Jen and April (Apes) - golden retriever-standard poodle mix
Weekly Goal: Hit the long trail once or twice a week plus regular walks.
How long/far did you walk this week?: 6.5 miles
Successes: Long hike achieved plus some short neighborhood strolls.
Challenges: 100+ degrees kept us from doing walks this weekend. Half way through our 5 mile hike she laid down in the trail and refused to budge. She's never done that before but she's getting old and it was warm, so I don't blame her. She was doing great and so excited, rushing to get to the water hole for a refreshing dip (I knew it had dried up in the heat but she didn't) so when she got there and it was just dust, she was crushed. Immediately after that, she laid down and quit. (I think it was a tantrum.) It was embarrassing that some bikers had to go around her big butt because she was blocking the trail. Too big and awkward to carry out (70+ pounds) or drag out of the way, so we just rested there and had snacks and drinks until she decided she was ready to go on again. She's been totally normal since then. But I think we will take shorter walks in the early morning for awhile and see if she does better.
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Walking Buddies: Jen and April (Apes) - golden retriever-standard poodle mix
Weekly Goal: Hit the long trail once or twice a week plus regular walks.
How long/far did you walk this week?: 6.5 miles
Successes: Long hike achieved plus some short neighborhood strolls.
Challenges: 100+ degrees kept us from doing walks this weekend. Half way through our 5 mile hike she laid down in the trail and refused to budge. She's never done that before but she's getting old and it was warm, so I don't blame her. She was doing great and so excited, rushing to get to the water hole for a refreshing dip (I knew it had dried up in the heat but she didn't) so when she got there and it was just dust, she was crushed. Immediately after that, she laid down and quit. (I think it was a tantrum.) It was embarrassing that some bikers had to go around her big butt because she was blocking the trail. Too big and awkward to carry out (70+ pounds) or drag out of the way, so we just rested there and had snacks and drinks until she decided she was ready to go on again. She's been totally normal since then. But I think we will take shorter walks in the early morning for awhile and see if she does better.
Glad she is okay! Our 70 pound dog Wick does that too when he gets tired/hot. That is so sad about the watering hole I don't blame her at all that's heartbreaking
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We hope everyone had a great week!
We have kind of adjusted our goals again, based on the fact that the FL weather is so incredibly ... difficult... between the heat and the thunderstorms. So we are just aiming for a few long walks a week and then exercise in the yard when the weather doesn't work out.
This week we managed ten miles in walks.
Successes: the boys have been very well behaved so I can walk them at the same time, meaning I can walk them longer distances.
Challenges: mosquitoes!!! Ughhhhhhh they are ruthless here. It doesn't matter how much bug spray we use they find the one centimeter it's not applied, and they even manage to get me through my long sleeves and pants
I didn't get a photo of their group walks since they had to be at 4 am due to temps/storm issues, but today weather was below 90 so we took daytime walks... only got a pic of Artoo, I was so proud of him, he carried water for both of us I carried the pack on the way back, sharing is caring
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WickAndArtoo wrote: »We hope everyone had a great week!
We have kind of adjusted our goals again, based on the fact that the FL weather is so incredibly ... difficult... between the heat and the thunderstorms. So we are just aiming for a few long walks a week and then exercise in the yard when the weather doesn't work out.
This week we managed ten miles in walks.
Successes: the boys have been very well behaved so I can walk them at the same time, meaning I can walk them longer distances.
Challenges: mosquitoes!!! Ughhhhhhh they are ruthless here. It doesn't matter how much bug spray we use they find the one centimeter it's not applied, and they even manage to get me through my long sleeves and pants
I didn't get a photo of their group walks since they had to be at 4 am due to temps/storm issues, but today weather was below 90 so we took daytime walks... only got a pic of Artoo, I was so proud of him, he carried water for both of us I carried the pack on the way back, sharing is caring
We are lucky here out West. I hardly ever encounter mosquitoes - and never in the daytime. Hate those little buggers!
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@jenilla1 ugh yeah, we are actually from the west, so we are extra missing home right now. It's so weird, before we began traveling I didn't realize mosquitos in the middle of the day in the middle of a city was a thing... let alone swarms 1
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