Todays Walk

OldAssDude
OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
here is the walk I did today at Tyler State Park...

Tyler State Park Walk

7.4 miles at a 4.4 mph pace on hilly trails.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah Baby... :)

Well... not too bad for an old guy anyway.

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  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Good for you!
  • berglingur
    berglingur Posts: 7 Member
    Nice!
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    YAY! :)
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Fun!
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    edited December 2015
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.

    Remind me again in August!
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    I would have to work up to something like that.
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.

    Does anyone run it?
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.

    Does anyone run it?

    Not in my hiking club, but many people run it on their own or maybe in other groups.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Exciting
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    bcalvanese wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    I would have to work up to something like that.

    You have 10 months. You can do it! I walked my first 5 miler in March of this year and was able to do 24 miles seven months later. (The other 3 times I have done Lake Geneva were back when I was fit before my back injury, around 2001)
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Nice work!
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    You can count me in, too....but I'd have to travel a long ways from Cali.

    Here, those of us who run love Annadel State Park because of it's long hilly up hill trails. The longest we've (my group of gal friends) is 7.5 miles up hill, down hill, through mud.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I shall walk to the gym

    It ain't no lake geneva but it's kinda pretty
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    And my closest Lake Geneva is in Switzerland otherwise I'd love to join you on your hike @earlnabby
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.

    We should get an MFP group together. I'd make it to WI for that if I can't get into the Chicago Marathon the day after (the two in the same weekend would probably be overkill).
  • OldAssDude
    OldAssDude Posts: 1,436 Member
    Well I may have only walked 7.43 miles, but I did it at a 4.4 mph pace.

    so ha... :)
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.

    Does anyone run it?

    Almost a 40k;that would be a fun challenge.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    We did an amazing walk recently, Torquay to Bells Beach and back, along the coast. Some on the beach, some of the cliffs. It was gorgeous. About 9 miles all up.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    And my closest Lake Geneva is in Switzerland otherwise I'd love to join you on your hike @earlnabby
    Is it close to Moselle wine region in Germany? mmmmm Reisling.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Hiked Mt Baldy with a 4,000 elevation gain 11 mile loop with a face plant near the top. My face looked like hell and lost some toenails but what the hell. It was fun!!
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Hiked Mt Baldy with a 4,000 elevation gain 11 mile loop with a face plant near the top. My face looked like hell and lost some toenails but what the hell. It was fun!!
    Yikes! We did the Devil's Lookout(I think that is what it was called) in Colorado last year. Nice elevation change. Last 144 steps were steep.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    @rabbitjb I got close to there once! I went to Lake Constance several years ago, was amazing :smile:

    Also, @queenliz99 , I used to live in Pomona.. I've done that Mt. Baldy more than a few times! Great hike!
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    kkenseth wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Join me sometime for the 24 mile hike around Lake Geneva. It takes about 8 hours to complete, depending on how much you stop to gawk at the mansions and the Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses.

    BTW: I have done it 4 times.

    Count me in. You know I'm close by ;)

    Second Saturday in October. Mark your calendar. You don't even have to join the club to do it, although $6 per year doesn't exactly break anyone's bank.

    We should get an MFP group together. I'd make it to WI for that if I can't get into the Chicago Marathon the day after (the two in the same weekend would probably be overkill).

    That's an amazing idea!!!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I took clippers and a bow saw on my (admittedly very short) walk yesterday and turned this:

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    Into this:
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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    tomteboda wrote: »
    @rabbitjb I got close to there once! I went to Lake Constance several years ago, was amazing :smile:

    Also, @queenliz99 , I used to live in Pomona.. I've done that Mt. Baldy more than a few times! Great hike!

    Awesome :) It was crazy fun!!
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    I'd love to join you guys on some of these scenic hikes. I walk my neighborhood boulevard... up and down a hill. Not much of an elevation change, but it feels challenging enough on the days when I run it. I did 8 miles this morning. Most days, I do 5.75.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited December 2015
    Not too scenic here either -- city or neighborhood streets, usually. My biking is more scenic, and it is fun to use running to explore some neighborhoods I don't go to as often. There's a meet-up group locally that does planned group walks -- usually at a decent speed, they will post the planned speed so you can choose between more exercise-focused walks and sightseeing -- through different neighborhoods that seem fun. Next year I hope to do more trail running and hiking.

    I like to run along the lake too (clearly this was taken a few months ago, but it's still nice now) -- it's a pretty good route from work if I want to add a couple of miles to the distance:

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