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| With Donna, the host. Photo courtesy of Jacqueline. |
For the second Saturday in a row, I walked at Signal Hill
with the Long Beach Area Walking Club. (Last Saturdays post: Packing It At Signal Hill). Summer is gone and we had the smallest
group since spring. Only three walkers showed up - Donna (the host),
Jacqueline, and me. I was actually a few seconds late because my GPS watch took
it's time connecting to with the satellite and I saw Donna starting off by
herself. A few steps down, we were
joined by Jacqueline. She said she was wondering why I was leaning over and I
showed her my backpack. The previous week, I had a 15 pound weight inside it
and this time I added another 5 pounds. In a previous post, I mentioned that I
considered the backpack with weights as "the equalizer" because it
slowed me down enough so I can walk with the group. Well, I felt every single
ounce of those extra 5 pounds because it made a huge difference in the effort I
had to exert.
Last Saturday's walk is one I would consider the hardest
I've ever done, even harder than the 13 mile walk I did on my birthday. Going
uphill was harder than running uphill without weights and with those 20 pounds,
my pace was about three and a half minutes slower per miles compared to my
fastest walk in Signal Hill without weights. Normally, I could cover 7.5 to 8 miles in an hour and 50 minutes. Last Saturday, I only reached 6.39 miles.
Let's just say that after the walk my shoulders hurt, my
lower back hurt, my bad ankles hurt, even my statin battered thighs hurt. At
least I discovered by accident that when
the straps of the backpack rested on the bony part of my shoulders, they hurt
less than when they rested on my trapezius. Three days later, my legs still
haven't fully recovered.
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| Jacqueline and Donna |
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