Walking is so... pedestrian

I have to admit, I am a running snob. It doesn't matter that I'll never relive my glory days of a 6 minute mile or that honestly I have no desire to run farther than a 5k. It's for old ladies, the very pregnant, or for the nonathletic. It's for freaking mall-walkers people. I don't count myself in any of those categories and ever since I injured my foot, it's the only thing I've been able to do. Can you see me in the picture below - because apparently that's my fate.

Okay, so I'm over-reacting here (and I'm not actually in the picture) but I hate not being able to run, even if it's only a few hundred feet. Luckily for me, daylight savings has hit and Sonja & I have been walking all over our new route, so I'm not sitting inside dwelling on my injury. It's 2.5 miles and we get to go through this nice little park & a really nice neighborhood to get back to the main road. Both times it's taken about an hour to do the entire loop so while we aren't exactly speed-walking we get a good workout in. Not to mention some much needed girl-time!




My foot has been feeling pretty good this week so I tried a little run today to test things out and I was able to run a full 6 minutes on it without incident. You can imagine my relief - I'd given up my heels lately and between the flat shoes and the walking I've been feeling ancient. I'm baaaaccckkk!!!