Dog run: 1 mile @ ~10 minutes
Homework: 20 minutes
Today was a recovery run day, but I had my heart set on trails. I have a super hilly ass kicking 10k in a few months, and it's been on my mind recently. So, hilly trail it was! And it was fabulous.
As soon as I got home I grabbed the dog and tacked on another slower mile to get this walk in.
It made me think about what I consider exercise. For me, walking doesn't count. Sure, maybe if I were rehabbing a broken foot, or morbidly obese, or had a double amputation. But I'm a person, and people walk. It's part of every day life. Even spending all day walking around the fair. That's LIFE, that's not exercise.
Amen sista!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. For me, walking is how I get places. Not exactly legit cardio.....
ReplyDeleteWord. Walking is, y'know... walking.
ReplyDeleteWhat 10K?! (I'm a race whore)
I consider walking exercise, but not a workout.
ReplyDeleteTrails, yea! :)
I think it depends on how fast you walk. But I agreee walking for fitness and walking because you walked the dog are walking different things.
ReplyDeleteOf course at the end of July I am going to start WALKING in training for the SGK 3-Day walk, ya know the one where you walk 60 miles in 3 days. Sure my fitness level won't be the same as when I am training for a half, but it will still be workout just at a different intesity.
agreed.
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I've never considered walking exercise either. The wife does, and it drives me crazy. No, I will not waste my time walking in circles with you.
ReplyDeleteI walk for exercise. I can't run for an hour, but I can walk for an hour - I figure that's better than nothing. Hopefully after I lose some weight that won't be the case.
ReplyDeleteSo when I get up to walk to the vending machine for Doritos that isn't exercise? Or when I walk to go get a Big Gulp of Mountain Dew?
ReplyDelete**for the record, we don't even have a vending machine and I've never tasted Mountain Dew.
Walking is nice. It is peaceful. It doesn't make me sweat - unless it is super hot outside, but that's not effort making me sweat. So for me, walking doesn't count either. However, with that said, I usually walk for 30 seconds or so here and there during my runs. THEN it counts just because I said so.