The Walking Thread

[citruscurtis]

My walking today.... started at 7:00 am. Moving boxes from one table to another....put storm plastic over the boxes of books ready for sale Friday and then carried garbage cans from the rest of the sale...to look for treasures... noon and never sat down

 

[citruscurtis]

Home and it stormed .. back on my feet to enjoy the last rain till August

 

[citruscurtis]

Then back on feet to explore the horizons.... solar farm

 

[citruscurtis]

.....and a big hello to California....

 

[citruscurtis]

.... but the hardest task.... was to avoid the flash flood in it's origin.... just don't have the energy with all the demands this.week... but how can you ignore a walk that is peace

 

[citruscurtis]

Rocks exposed after the flood and soon to disappear in the ATV traffic

 

[citruscurtis]

Thank you for your inspiration.... just occurred to me I can get up early and walking the wet environment in it's sunrise

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Thank you for your inspiration.... just occurred to me I can get up early and walking the wet environment in it's sunrise

Thank you for sharing! I always find it interesting how different weather events as well as time of day often impact what I wind up seeing. This goes for pretty much anywhere. Just seeing those rocks stirred up by the flooding is very cool. Kind of the beauty of getting out in nature because you never know what you'll see and it's often a different experience every time.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Happy Wednesday! Double walking post today!

Yesterday was a backwards day. DD had a game, so I went to the gym in the morning and devised a 6 mile route to the school. It wound up being 6.06 mi when I stopped my watch. Today was back to normal time with a 6.04 mile walk. I've been trying to keep myself right at 6 miles since I don't want to overdo it with these races coming up this weekend.

This morning's walk was pretty basic...aside from dodging a few raindrops and occasionally mistaking the flashing from my light up vest as lightning. The storms to my west fell apart while I was out there but we're expecting more later. But hey...one of the high school girls complimented the light up vest and I think I've finally figured out a way to crisscross the straps so it stays snug on my shoulders without being uncomfortable. I passed some ladies (that I see pretty regularly) and they wear these bright glow necklaces. They stand out, but I think I'll stick with my vest or my flashing red light.

Yesterday was at least in the daylight (although, it was 87 degrees and super humid). I grabbed a few shots as well as a short video down at one of the tributaries. It's kind of cool how the remaining standing water from the recent rains has cut a path and made its own little waterfall. Oh, and I saw the chickens again but they were a little too close for comfort, so I just powered on past them. Funny...I'm not spooked by snakes, but chickens give me some concern!

Obviously, not the most direct route to the school, but I needed the miles.



It was kids night!



Oh, I also got my new leggings that may wind up taking the place of the firefly ones for Saturday. DDs school colors are green, black and white and they're the Panthers (as you can kind of read on my shirt). So, I will have lots of opportunities for use outside of walks, but the green is more St. Patrick's Day than the other leggings.



I also made the executive decision that while I am not wearing any sparkly skirts/tutus, head decor, or necklaces...we need GLITTER! Lots of GLITTER!

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Happy Thursday!

I'm trying so hard to pull back a bit and save my feet and legs for the weekend, but it's hard. The walking is so therapeutic for me and my natural pace is just very brisk. I put in 6.03 miles this morning and I started off well behaved keeping myself in the low 15s (which is my normal walk) but by mile 5, I was low 14s and was even faster in mile 6. I thought I might be a smidge slower because a front came through, we were in the 40s and I was bundled a bit...but no. I just had to keep getting faster. Tomorrow is going to be even cooler, but we start warming quickly by the weekend. I've made the executive decision that for tomorrow, I am going to sleep in a little and only allow myself 4 miles. I've set it as my daily minimum, so I think this time I do it out of preservation purposes vs. time crunch day implementation for which it was originally adopted.

Even though I'm well aware of this, I still found myself shocked that I was able to catch the early phases of sunrise and had daylight by the time I got home. It's just so funny how quickly my mornings went from 100% darkness to seeing a bit. My first couple of pics are in the dark, but the moon against the water was so pretty. I even cropped the one pic a bit so you can see all of the stars I was picking up.

 

[citruscurtis]

The 7:15 walk for the last 2 morning start at this county road block.... I guess to stop first timers from following the pavement to Wash bed. I turn north as the south Wash is now private property and take the most beautiful of three channels as it is a cliff and has ground water for the foliage

 

[citruscurtis]

I turn around at this very long metal bar fence and have no idea of its purpose... flowering trees and dead trees add texture...flowers were blooming long before Monday knee high flash flood

 

[citruscurtis]

Photo of down tree is actually of a very tall cactus to the left .. very rare specimen thrown over the Cliff