Walking, First Half of October

 Back in late August? early September?  I decided that I wanted to participate in an online walking challenge for October.  The premise was easy: walk at least 10 minutes per day.

Now, my days are already mostly spent on my feet, but I was wanting to squeeze in more 'fun' walking along with the 'work' walking that I do.  So I signed up.  How hard can 10 minutes be?

BWAHAHAHA!  (Insert maniacal laugher on repeat here)

Turns out I'm really horrible at squeezing in a measly 10 minutes of fun or 'just for me' stuff, especially walking.

The first few days, okay, I got those. I included pictures from those in this post. But the next week or so, not so much.  

October 4, walking on the 'garden road' that runs from the driveway to the garden. Looking towards the driveway and horse pastures. Front yard is to the right of the conifers and front field (and after that, the road) is to the left , garden is out of sight on immediate right.

October 6, standing in the back of the field looking west towards the house/barn/shop area

October 7, in the backyard looking north towards the coop, barn and shop

On Saturday, October 11, I went to a quilt show at the local fairgrounds, and did a ton of walking there, looking at all the quilts on display.  It was a lot of start and stop type walking so I'm not sure I should even count it as it didn't raise my heart rate one iota like constant motion would.  But, since I was there for over two hours, maybe I walked the equivalent of ten continuous minutes?  I took a bunch of pictures while there, and intend to write a separate post about that, but here's a token picture for my 'walking' that day.

This week I redoubled my efforts, and have (so far) walked 10-25 minutes each day.

October 13, near the northwest corner of the property while walking the perimeter path we made for riding horses/driving tractor/driving 4-wheeler/walking on.

October 14, walking in the field near the marsh, looking northeast.

October 15, walking laps in the 'arena' behind the barn while I wait for one of the water troughs to fill.

As you can see from yesterday's arena laps, I'm trying to get a little creative and explore time slots that I can multitask by walking while 'doing' something else, like filling a water trough, or the 20 minutes something (zucchini muffins) is baking in the oven when the day is pretty jam packed and doesn't feel like there's any 'me' time in there available for a walk.

Hopefully the second half of the month I'll do better and actually walk every day.