Valorie Walks

Still at 3.2 mph this week . I think I won't try to bump it up until I can do 3 miles more consistently; and I'm not even doing that with 2 miles yet. However, I am determined. Saturday 8 February 2025: 1 mile. Sunday 9: 2 miles. Monday 10: could not run. Tuesday 11: 2.5 miles. Wednesday 12: 2.8 miles. Thursday 13: 1.8 miles.  Friday 14: 2.3 miles. Saturday: 15: Two meeting day; no clue if there will be gas in the tank for running. So this week, 7 days: 12.4 miles.  Better than last week by almost a mile, and about a tenth of a mile per hour faster. So it really is progress. 

 10 years ago, I was really committed to walking, and started this blog. Lots of things happened, and I stopped.  Something lit a fire in me as 2024 was drawing to a close. At that point, I had about six more months of my term as president of SKCGS, and two more as vice-president of both the state society WASGS and the Seattle Black Genealogy Research Group, BGSG. I was getting deeper into my McBee research, and thinking about the outlines of the book, and thinking about the travel needed to complete the research. Ozempic was certainly helping me drop off the weight, but I was losing muscle too, and sitting at the computer was getting more and more uncomfortable.  Sitting on bare butt-bones is no fun! And walking around the neighborhood was not enough; walking more in general takes more time than I wanted to budget. Running seemed like the obvious answer, and we have a treadmill. So I started running at 3 mph about 2 miles per day, I think back in November. Say 20-25 mile...

 Feb 1: 1.3 miles, 3.1 mph. Feb 2: 2.3 miles, 3.1 mph ✌ Feb 3: 1.8 miles, 3.1 mph Feb 4: 1.5 miles, 3.1 mph Feb 5: 2.1 miles, half at 3.1, half at 3.2 mph. 😉 Trying to sneak up on faster . Feb 6: 1.1 miles, 3.2 mph. Feb 7: 1.6 miles (ran out of time for more); mostly 3.2 or 3.3 mph, but average 3.1 because I was trying to slow down slowly if that makes sense. All in all, satisfied. Progress. Added on the 14th: going to total up mileage by week & month.  Feb 1-7: 11.5 Miles.

  Last week of January 2025 26th: 2 miles 27: 0.5 + 1.5 = 1.75 2 miles 28: 0.8 (just over 3 laps at 3.1mph 29: 1.9 + 1.8? - no idea why there are different figures, but probably just under 2 miles.  30: 1.1 31: could not run.  The month ends with Angel's birthday, and beginning last night, I was overcome with sorrow, missing my mom, and Angel, and everyone else I've lost. Marianne Faithful died, and I could not help thinking of Carol -- she would know about the end of that era when we were so young. I'm still alive and kicking though, and running. Keep on keeping on.

Tuesday, January 21: 2.5 miles Wednesday, 22: 1.5 miles  Thursday, 23: 1.3 Friday, 24: 1 mile. Saturday, 25: 1.4 mile. Up & down; as I've been from the beginning, which was late November or early December, from what I can tell. Finally found and deleted most of the extra photos of the treadmill record.

 Feels great to get back up over 2 especially at 3.1 mph. Gives me hope of going faster and further if I can keep up the nearly daily need to run!