I’ve got my routines and within those routines I have routines. I have my walking routines of course; three weekly group hikes and three days of solitary walking. Thursday is the alone day when I push myself to walk a little longer and further than normal. Yesterday I did a bit over 12K in a little more than 2.5 hours. Granted it was mostly flat. I had originally planned to walk to Waltermart on the far side of Subic town, then return home via the National highway. When I reached the GOVIC bypass road I changed my mind and turned left instead of right. Just wasn’t feeling that long walk home on the busy highway. Maybe I’ll do it next week.
I’ve got some pictures to share from the walk:
You can Relive the walk here if you’d like.
No darts on Thursday, so after the requisite nap and shower, I made my way down the highway to Cheap Charlies for beers and bargirl companionship. The beer was cold and the girls were hot. Well, one of those is true. The girls were friendly enough though and I of course rewarded their acting like I’m special with a couple of lady drinks. The traffic on the highway is especially bad lately because Subic is STILL doing their insane and pointless vehicle checkpoint which creates a gridlocked mess that is a danger to all involved, especially pedestrians.
I felt bad for those transgendered folk from San Diego being stuck in traffic after such a long journey. *ahem*
After a couple (or was it a few?) beers I moved down the road to Mango’s and took my usual seat overlooking the beach. My beer bottle had a rust encrustation on the mouthpiece so the waitress provided a frosty mug to pour the beer into. As I sat there enjoying the view I thought about how someday I ought to write the story of my life.
It may not be much of a life, but strangely I don’t seem to give a shit. I wonder why that is?
So, I guess I better get after it before those caring feelings start slipping in. Back tomorrow with more of the same, but different enough to be almost new.
Just curious. And flat out nosey. At any point during the last few years -saving periods of illness- have you ever gone a sustained period of time, which I guess for you would be a week or more, without going for long walks…? And if so did you notice any health and mind faculties heading south fast?
Dan, I started walking regularly in early 2016 as part of an effort to lose weight. I discovered that the exercise was also soothing to my troubled mind. So I kept on keeping on and now that I’m retired it is just a scheduled part of my day. Filling in hours if you will.
So, to answer your question there has not been a significant period of time when I’ve taken a break from walking. Sometimes during rainy season I’m not able to walk as much as normal and the impact is that I will gain a little weight.
Trying to catch-up on my LTG reading. McCrarey, never mind working on writing the story of your life. Let’s start working on the Screenplay. A made-for-TV-movie of your life is what we need. Damn, i wish Rodney Dangerfield was still with us. He would have been perfect for the part of John McCrarey.
“I wish Rodney Dangerfield was still with us. He would have been perfect for the part of John McCrarey.”
I don’t get no respect!