Monday, July 31, 2006

Walking with a friend

One of my friends is training for a 60 mile walk to happen later next month, and she hasn't trained enough. So I decided to go out with her and do some walking with her. We walked about 3 hours and covered about 8.4 miles. We started down the Sammamish River trail, which was paved and flat, and about 1.5 miles into it, we turned and explored the Powerline trail that branched off. That trail was quite hilly, and according to my Polar watch, we climbed about 650 feet for the next few miles. It even got my heart rate up a bit during some of it, but for the most part, I wasn't feeling any tiredness or pain and my heart rate stayed under 120 most of the walk. My friend wasn't as fit, and struggled a bit and had some pain.

We are planning another walk on Wednesday, as tomorrow I have a scheduled afternoon run.

Paul

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