Around and around

[codyne]

Finally got back out there today. There were still some fire trucks on the road, so I decided to walk around the house instead. I have a circular-ish dirt driveway around the house, which is just over a tenth of a mile long. I've measured it in my truck, and 19 laps is just over 2 miles.

I lost the sport watch that I used to use to count splits, so I counted laps the low-tech way: I picked up 19 small pebbles from the driveway to start out with, and dropped one every time I finished a lap. When I was out of pebbles, I was done!

To make things interesting while I was circling the house, I decided to add in a bit of running. I ran for about a minute every other lap. It felt really good! Now I'm all enthused about running again.

After my run/walk, I did 10 minutes of crunches and some yoga stretches.

Comments

[muck_a_luck]

Sounds great! Fire threat-level?

[codyne]

The fire is 100% contained. Crews are still monitoring for hot spots, and clearing burned dead trees. So it looks like we're more or less back to the usual summer fire danger.

It really felt good to get out and move again!

[carolyn_claire]

They're still there? It's just a precaution, I hope?

What a clever solution to lap counting; I'm going to remember that one.

[codyne]

They're still monitoring for hot spots and doing some cleanup of dead burnt trees and things, but the fire is contained and danger of it starting up again is pretty low.

I used to sometimes use jellybeans to count laps -- eat one bean after every lap till they're gone. But pebbles are free and always available! One of these days I'll buy another sport watch, but meanwhile this works.

[carolyn_claire]

It's sort of a green, low-cal solution. *g*

[codyne]

Yep! The jellybean thing worked better when I was running at a local park, where the circle was about 3/4 mile. Nineteen jellybeans is a bit much for a two-mile walk!

[green]

Cool pebble trick, and great job on the running!

[codyne]

Thanks!