"it's high time to choose your destiny..."

Yesterday was for endurance.

I managed to walk something like 6 & 1/4 miles (4x around Red Bud.) 10K

There's an endurance event in about 2 weeks. Because it's not how FAR you go, but how long - it says it's a "walker friendly" event. It's 3 hrs and 6 hours. My walk yesterday took a hair over 2 hours and I think I could have gone for the full three, but I started getting a pretty wicked blister on the botton of my foot. I'd like to have done it just so I could say ahead of time that I could (like I did with the 5K), but this time I am hoping that maybe just getting 2/3rd of the way means I could PROBABLY do it the day of. It's a night time event. If I last the 3 hours, it would be 9pm-12pm... seems like fun - to be out walking late like that. Surely, it can't be as hot then... surely.

Today - even though I'm doing ice packs and Ibuprofen as advised by my cousin the P.A. - I was hurting & decided to take a rest day. I know all the online stuff says you need to take at least ONE rest day a week, but I hadn't been.

So I decided to go for some nice, restful yoga.

HA.

I haven't tried yoga in a long time.

Yea, I'm not real flexible. I used to be. This sounds rather perverse, but a kid at school once paid me a quarter to watch me put both my legs behind my head (no, I was NOT wearing a dress.)

I actually feel more worn out from the yoga than I've felt from the walking EVER.

Also...

I think I've narrowed down my choices for a health club to join. I'm leaning toward the one affiliated with the hospital (Hendrick.) It's on the north side (con), but it's got the machines, classes AND a pool (pro pro pro.) And somehow I just feel like a hospital's health club isn't going to tell me to do something crazy if it was ultimately bad for me (I just remember my World Gym membership and how they had me doing stuff that was killing my knees.)

So -- I've submitted an online form to get them to contact me and I've requested that my friend Seth (who instructs there) give me his professional opinion about the joint.

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AND I've just discovered the option to add other authors to this blog. Anyone out there starting to "exercise on purpose" who wants to chronicle it?