Awareness of the outside world. “The Twelfth Night is the night before Epiphany, and the twelfth day is Epiphany itself.” Boston Public Library: The Origins and Practice of Holidays: Twelfth Night, Gurpurab Guru Gobindh Singh, Epiphany, Día de los Reyes, Bhagat, 2019.
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Swim supplies from Dick’s Sporting Goods.
Daily Mile
Pasture. Morning walks with horses. No new places to report.
Monthly 5K Long Walk
The plan.
Photo outing. Check. [Homewood Star, Photography]
Follow the parade route. Check.
Walk a 5K. Ch … wait …
I did it again. Got my units confused. I planned the route carefully. I calculated that I would need to go up, back, & then some milling about to get to the correct number. I worked diligently to get 3.18 … kilometers. Oops. [Mostly Walking, previous error]
I may have tried to do too much. I was thinking about photography and where to park so that I could take photos and then leave the camera in the truck. Or maybe I was simply confused. I also managed to lose the recording of the route while saving the screenshot of the stats. Bummer, because it was something other than the usual circles.
Update. Map mysteriously appeared. You can see at the end how I wandered back & forth to get the exact mileage. Sigh.
For those who don’t have the numbers at the tips of their fingers, a 5K is 3.17 miles. No, it’s 3.107 miles. Once again, I realize an error as I am doing the post. Sigh. I know this. I keep having to relearn this. Why is this hard? 007 is a culturally memorable number. [Disc Stroll, in which I realize my mistake], [Another Impromptu 5k, in which I recalculate]
I have no explanation for the speed. (Text moved to coordinate with the various updates.)
(Update. The speed is KPM. In miles, it’s 2.8 mph. A perfectly cromulent pace for me. Wow, I am really not getting this. That’s is the third numerical error for a single event. This one I realized when I read over the published post. Seriously, I looked at that number multiple times. I figured it was GPS error. Shakes head. Moving on.)
For the record. Maybe as my December walk this year. “The parade will begin at 6:30pm from Homewood Public Library and travel east on Oxmoor Road. Then it will turn left onto 18th Street South, travel under the Christmas star and then turn right onto 29th Avenue. It will then turn left onto 19th Street, travel past city hall and turn left onto 28th Avenue.” Homewood Chamber of Commerce: Homewood for the Holidays > Christmas Parade and Lighting of the Star
Mileage added to NYC virtual walk. [Archives]
Other
Got in the pool. Sat on a bike. Climbed aboard a rowing machine.
Let’s give these a check and not inquire too closely how often I did each activity per week or per month. In all honesty, I will never do any of these as regularly as I go for walks. Even if I have walked in the morning, I will sometimes go for a second walk in the evening to settle my head. While I don’t dislike the non-walking activities, there is an element of dragging my butt off of the metaphorical couch to benefit future me.
The above photo is not a repost. You can tell by the different color of the hat. This is a new set of hat & swim googles that I had to buy since the last time I went swimming. Grrr. [Restarting, photo]
Wanted to get back to swimming last month. Spent far too long looking for bathing suit & accoutrements. Found suit. Finally gave up on the rest. Which led to my November walk. “Was having a cranky day. Decided to do the monthly 5K. At least get something done that day … So, I went for a stomp around the pasture.” [Mostly Walking]
I now own three sets of swim cap & goggles. Where the other two sets are I have no idea.
Daily mileage & biking to virtual Mississippi River trip. I don’t swim or row far enough to count. Not yet anyway. [Biking and Walking Virtually, Mississippi River]
5Ks & Fitness Posts of 2023
December walk, Red Mountain park. January post [Picture This, Walk Photos, State of the Fitness]
January walk. IRL so got its own post. [Moseying to the Music, Walk Report, MLK Day 5K Drum Run 2023]
February post. [Stall Rest Chronicles 3 Feb, plus Fitness Photos]
February walk, local park, Mardi Gras medal. March post. [Perfect Attendance Record, State of the Fitness]
March walk, Oak Meadow. April post. [Maps For the Month, State of the Fitness]
April walk, pasture with Rodney for Virtual Tevis. May post. [Sunny Days, State of the Fitness]
May walk, ditto. June post. [One Place, Lots of Pasture, State of the Fitness]
June walk, Run for Women, IRL in Montreal. July post [In Which I Go To A Foreign Country and Walk Around In Circles, State of the Fitness]
July walk, Sulky Sprint, virtual run, August post [Two New Places, State of the Fitness]
August, skipped, “This is the first month in over three years that I haven’t walked a 5K … I am oddly unperturbed by this.” September post. [Restarting, State of the Fitness]
September, no long walk. October post. [Down By The Riverside, State of the Fitness]
October walk, local park, November post. [Step By Step, State of the Fitness]
November walk, pasture. December post. [Mostly Walking, New and Old, State of the Fitness]
December walk, Homewood. January post. Above.
Nine 5Ks, one 3K, skipped two months. Of the 10 walks – two IRL, two virtual, two for Virtual Tevis, four wandering/stomping about on my own.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 