First, there's a great workout room here at Trevi. Now that the weather report shows rain or snow or both together for the foreseeable future, I'll be doing some indoor walks.
Second, I also didn't walk yesterday. Still afflicted.
Third, I am doing this wrong! I am focusing on how but not what. I am focusing on how to get to 20 miles a week instead of why I would want to do that. I need to get back to thinking about what I'm preparing for, the delicious hikes I will become eligible to do once I can walk X miles in comfort.
I did learn something important this past week: when they say in hiking descriptions that there's so much elevation gain, such as 5.4 miles, 3200 ft elevation gain, it means the total for the trip, not the net.
So that means, you could go up and down a lot and all those ups would contribute to the elevation gain. Or you could walk straight up a mountain 3200 feet.
When I walk around here, I do a lot more elevation gain than I was giving myself credit for! I may go up net 500 feet, but getting there was all ups and downs, and could have doubled the gain.
Bottom line: I am not as far from being able to do real hikes as I'd thought. YAY. Other bottom line: My goal includes loving it, and so far I'm not there.
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