May Walking Challenge - Get our butts in gear!

Havent walked as much as i planned to this week, but im still hanging in there and working towards reaching my goal. Good luck everyone!

50 min. today in the rain, something I never would have done in the past. Better get used to it though because its supposed to rain every day for the next week! BOO!:sad:

Hi! Sorry I didn't check in yesterday. Thanks for all the well wishes! They must have worked as I feel 75% better today than yesterday. Still feel weak and achey but certainly not as bad as yesterday. I think I need to scale back my exercise a bit and stick to something more routine and a little less aggressive.

I did walk Friday although it was very slow and quite painful. I did 2 laps around my apartment in a little more than 30 minutes and I was glad I did it despite the pain. I often have to question myself when feeling pain and really see if I'm trying to use it as an excuse (meaning it's not as bad as I think it is) or if I take one more step will I end up bedridden (meaning it's worse than I want to believe). I've been inactive for so long that it's hard to know where the excuses end and the pain really begins.

That said I think I might have overdone it a bit today. I was ok in the morning while waiting for my daughter to finish her volunteer work collecting the food from the Postal Carriers Food drive, but when I went to pick her up there were still so many bins of bags to sort through I decided to help out. That wasn't so much walking as general exercise so it's not included in my total numbers here, but I'm certainly feeling all the bending and squatting (as well as probably too much lifting for my own good) so I'm hoping it won't set me back too much. I plan on walking the next two days and maybe skipping the elliptical or keeping it to maybe twice a week with a good 3 days in between.

So today, between my morning walk through one of my favorite stores and the evening walk to the restaurant my kids and I ate dinner, I logged 114 minutes today. I couldn't begin to estimate the distance I covered over the store but the walk to the restaurant was a good mile.

My tickers are updated and I think I'm off to bed soon.
I hope everyone has had a great weekend so far and is walking their butts off!!
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50 min. today in the rain, something I never would have done in the past. Better get used to it though because its supposed to rain every day for the next week! BOO!:sad:

ooooooohhhhh! Hope your shoes are drying out in between! That could turn bad quickly! Be safe!!

Only 0.8 miles today, to and from work but every little counts!
Happy walking!

2.5 miles in today!

i had a rather lazy weekend but got in 2.9 miles today woo!

Haven't posted since I joined this challenge.11 miles added!

I want to join too! What a great idea.

I am starting late, but my goal for the rest of the month is to walk 15miles. It is low, but I push 2 kids (over 60lbs) while walking, that should count for something!

Today I walked 1.3 miles. 13.7 to go.