If you read anything about keeping healthy as you age they all say exercise and walk. Somebody I know through SW, the slimming group, walks everywhere and she is only a year or two younger than me. She was told by a health adviser.... while you can, walk! So she does. There are several members who tell of doing 10,000 steps each day.. what??? Don't they go to bed? But it seems they wear their watches, step counters, all the time and only take it off to shower. I don't even remember to put mine on!
I do acknowledge I need to walk more, but I am paranoid about tripping up so I avoid some paved areas and do as a physiotherapist told me... pick your feet up higher than you think. I sometimes think.. do the moon walk... as I walk along. The main street here in town is pedestrianised, but a lot of the block paving making up the road is broken or dips dangerously, where heavy delivery lorries have driven along, so I am very cautious walking there.
The best places to walk are Shopping Malls, but there aren't any near us. But yesterday I found the perfect place to walk. The new B&M, its instead of Homebase. It is huge, with shelving sited, so you have to snake around and go down and up different aisles. We went for a new lavatory brush, they didn't have the one I wanted, but I did 25 minutes of walking, albeit slowly. We didn't come away empty handed, and bought a new kitchen compost bin and some teeth interdental brushes. I think this is going to be a weekly place to walk.
We'll still walk along the promenade where there aren't pavers, but not near Booths or Mama Frans, they sell ice cream so I daren't go near them for the obvious reason, too tempting!
Chrisxx
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