Bring On Spring

bundled up for my walk today. 

While I haven't been very good at documenting it, I have been good at keeping up the training schedule.

Last weekend I had to do 6 miles on Saturday and 5 on Sunday. I did a mix of in my neighborhood walks and downtown walks. During the week I stuck to the treadmill for my three miles, though on Tuesday I ended up trying a Zumba class offered in my building at work (hated it.) and decided that hour of exercise was the equivalent of doing 3 miles.

This weekend I had to do 8 miles on Saturday and 6 miles today.

Yesterday I ended up meeting up with someone else who is training for the Avon Walk at a local mall and doing most of the walk there. In the morning, when I set out to walk it was 28 degrees with a "feels like" temp of 3, so being a mall walker was OK with me.

My route ended up being a bit longer than
necessary, which is a good thing. I guess. 

I did my last two miles yesterday in my neighborhood while running some errands. At that point it had warmed up some, but was still no where near actually being warm out!

For today's walk I thought about just doing a long loop in my neighborhood, but I was very focused on getting lunch at a sandwich shop that I'm currently obsessed with so I was trying to figure out how I could work that into the walk.

In the end I decided to walk a mile to the metro and then take that to near their Arlington location. Then I walked home from there.

It wasn't the most scenic route, coming back to Alexandria via Glebe road, and it was pretty chilly again today, but, I had the super yummy Logan Square salad that I love, so that was totally worth it.

This week's mid-week walks are still both 3 miles and by next Saturday I'll be up to 10!