Ok - the nine days of tracking my walking were awesome, 39.2 aerobic miles, not counting the steps in between the ”real” walks. This week is shaping up even better. Now that I’ve added some speed and a vigourous walk at noon every day for 30 minutes or more, I’m standing straighter, my midsection feels stronger. My hip no longer hurts. Going up the steep hill to the Prom I’m breathing hard but not hurting, even in the heat we’ve been having - I know I feel better and I can tell the way my pants and shirts fit.
I track all of my steps most days, and keep special track of the “aerobic” steps, time and miles, but since I naturally walk a lot in and between offices and around the building the total is always over 10,000. Yesterday, because I went to Lowes and Target after work, I logged over 17,500 steps… 11,000 of them were aerobic… and about 4000 of them uphill and another 200 on beach sand. I walked up the bluff trail to the Western Promenade from Valley Street 3 times this week so far, and once last week.
Another subject - my old car just wasn’t safe anymore and didn’t qualify for the Cash.gov program but it had to go. So I shopped around - the Toyota people were laughable, high prices and no inventory and little interest in selling me a car. I kept coming back to the Kia dealer and 2010 CUV Soul. In the end the Kia Soul was a shoo-in - it’s a 5 sd std (which I wanted), has air cond., power locks and windows, terrific sound system, USB and MP3 payer slots, est 32 mpg highway - and for a little more I extended the bumper to bumper warranty to 10 yr / 100,000 mi. Plus scads more room and style. I put in about 55 miles per day from Kennebunk to Portland, so I’ll save some gas $$.
The target Soul audience is kids - it’s similar in looks to the Scion xB and the Nissan Cube - but more rad. I’m in the kid category if not demographic in that I kayak, bicycle and take my dog everywhere… on the way home from the dealer I got a grille to keep Jackson safely in the back.
Jackson - my Bassett-German Shepherd mix - loves it. With the back seats folded flat, he has a full size bed and tons space, can see out all the windows. No more whining and jumping from seat to seat! He’s in heaven and so am I. He can easily jump into and out of the back hatch. The side doors are so useful for groceries, anything I need to pick up.
There’s a depression in the floor behind the back seats, about 43″ wide by 25″ long and 8″ deep. I cut a storage cover from inch-think foam core board, put several boxes beneath it for use as compartments. I can store all sorts of stuff under the floor and It doesn’t show. Very cool.
Posted on August 14th, 2009 by jaxie
Filed under: weight loss
Awesome. I’ve seen the commercials and it is a sweet car.