Valorie Walks

 YES! Way to start a new week. Both cleaning up my 52 Ancestors (link) work so far, AND ran 2 miles.  Sunday 9 March: 2 miles @3.2 mph.  Monday 10 March: 1 mile. No time, but squeezed in a mile. Tuesday 11 March: 1.5 miles. Wednesday 12 March: 1.5 miles. Thursday 13 March: 1.5 miles. Getting to be a pattern, here. Friday 14 March: 1.5 miles.  Saturday 15 March: 1 mile. Week of March 9-15: 10 miles.

 Sunday 2 March: 1.8 miles @3.2 mph. Monday 3 March: 1.1. Bit of a struggle. Tuesday 4 March: 1.8 miles. Wednesday 5 March: 2 miles. It CAN be done! I wish more often.... Thursday 6 March: 1.3 miles. Friday 7 March: 1.5 miles. Saturday 8 March: 1.8 miles.  Week of 2-8 March: 9.5 miles.

 I begin the week as I ended last week: persistence . Sunday, 23 Feb: 1.1 miles @3.2 mph. Monday, 24: no run. Tuesday, 25: 1.2 miles Wednesday, 26: zero Thursday, 27: 1.5 Friday, 28: 1.8 miles Saturday, 1 March: 1.3 miles Week of 23 Feb - 1 March 2025: 6.9 miles @3.2 miles per hour. 

Today (16th), it was all about blood sugar. Although I'm much thinner now, I still have diabetes, and was relying successfully on mints (5-10 calories each) for enough sugar to get through a run.  Could NOT power through that today; was not out of breath or had tired muscles, but I was sweating and just had to quit.  I found some glucose tabs and will try those out tomorrow if it's possible to run.... Def. will not be bumping up my speed until I work this out. Sunday 16 Feb: 2.6 miles @ 3.2 mph.   Monday 17: 1.5 miles Tuesday 18: 1.6 miles. A tiny bit better with the glucose tabs. Wednesday 19: 1.5 miles. Eh. Thursday 20: too tired to get onto the treadmill.  Friday 21: squeezed in 1 mile and was happy about that. Saturday 22: 1.3 miles. Chewing the glucose helped; buying more. This week, Feb16-22: 9.5 miles. Word of the week: persistence .

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...