Walking with Wendy Across America

OK People! Followers! Or whoever you are! This is it!! Linda and Jeff came up with this great idea now that so many of us are walking, biking or climbing stairs. As a team, we can walk across America! Jeff, Cheryl and Linda did the link below to keep track of your accomplishments each day and they'll all be added up and once we hit 3000 miles, we'll have a huge party. Put down the number of miles you walked, ran or rode your bike, or the number of flights of stairs you climbed or number of laps you swam, starting on April 1, 2010 as this is the first day of my blog. These will all be tallied up and with all of us working together we can accomplish this by the end of the year. I think it sounds like fun, hard work and a great way to get healthier. Save the link below in your favorites then at the end of each day just quickly jot down what you did. Let me know if you have problems with it then I'll let Jeff know.

Since I last posted it's been a busy week and my legs have been feeling weak. At work we are either climbing the stairs and/or walking outside depending on the weather. We have three more going with us on the walks and one more with the stairs and she did great! (I don't want to say any names until I get permission from them.) Last week my legs were so fatigued and they kept yelling at me "What in the world are you doing to us?" But, I push forward and I was blessed I was able to crash this past weekend so they are a little better. My one knee is not happy to walk or to climb but who said getting in shape is fun? NOT ME! But after climbing 6 flights of stairs or walking 1/2 mile on break I feel really exhausted AND good knowing I did something good and healthy for my body. We all have one body to take care of and I wish it was easier but sometimes I think all I'm responsible for is this 5 foot 2 inch box of body and I can't even take care of that. But, I'm changing that and so we all can.

I start doubting myself and listening to that negative voice in my head about losing weight then gaining it all back and more and letting people down if I don't accomplish this and making a fool of myself and what if the pain is too bad that I can't do as much as I need to. What if I fail again, but then I thought I'm a success at failing:) I could write an entire book of all the negative talk in my head... So I'm changing my thinking. I'm not doing this to lose weight. I'm not going to change my eating habits or weigh myself each week, I'm just going to get my muscles stronger and healthier and hope to walk the half marathon in November at Snow Canyon, St. George. It would be great if we all did it in November. I'll let you know when and where and this would be a great tribute to ourselves for the all the hard work we are doing right now. Just thinking about it exhausts me, but before I know it the time will be here and I better be ready and if not then I succeeded again at failing! See, there it goes again - I'm calling that negative voice PITY! ha ha Who wants to come to my pity party!! We all have our pity parties but lets work together to have a celebration party!

I've rambled on enough so I hope you aren't sleeping right now as you need to click on the link below to input your accomplishments. I don't have internet at home so I'm doing this at Linda's house so I'll try to be more consistent with the blogs. Pity says I have a blog for my body blob. Sometimes Pity can be hilarious! OK, enough! Thanks for all your support, love, comments and friendship. Love you all and I really hope you do the link below. Thanks Linda (my Master Motivator) Jeff, Cheryl, Kari and Kim and everyone who's been helping with this. Thanks to Janet, Julie, Sally, my co-workers who are supporting me at work with climbing and walking!
WE CAN DO THIS!! AMERICA HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a link that we can now start keeping track of all our miles.

Linda


"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, WOW! WHAT A RIDE!"


--- On Sun, 4/11/10, 5voltsgc@gmail.com <5voltsgc@gmail.com> wrote:


From: 5voltsgc@gmail.com <5voltsgc@gmail.com>
Subject: Linda please forward this form (link) to everyone so that we can start logging the miles
To: sttawadnil@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 8:10 PM

If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHlrU0lscmpyWW9KYTJZa2ZMUUFva0E6MQ

Exercise With Wendy

This is a log to get fit by exercising the distance across America from the Maine to San Diego, or 3,000 miles. If you exercise with the family just add up all the miles and group them under your name.


Name

Date of Exercise dd/mm/yy

Distance (Miles, Flights of stairs, Number of laps) 1.5

Type of Exercise Choose the exercise you did from the list

Duration (Time in Minutes) 45

Notes

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