Fiber Fool

How are you doing on the moving front? Have you moved for 30 minutes everyday? Are you getting bored?

I’m sticking to more or less the same routine for the moment - strength (focused on back/arms/shoulders) three days a week and water aerobics two opposite days, then any walking (and eventually biking I’m hoping, but the bike isn’t easily removed from the garage right now) to get to/from the office and gym and anywhere else I wish to go. It’s working though.

My stats for the past 6 days (because I haven’t gone to the gym for today’s strength work yet) is as follows:
Distance - 20.2 miles
Duration - 12 hours and 7 minutes
Calories Burned - 5,692 (averaging 948 calories a day)

While at times I still miss readily being able to just hop in the car and go run an errand or being able to bop around and not plan out all my activities so I leave and return home just once a day, one thing I am loving about my mostly foot-powered and bus-aided transportation is the ability to slow down and notice things. Yesterday as I was headed to the bus stop in the rain I stumbled upon this pair of mallard ducks on a lawn in the middle of our sub-division. I’ve been seeing a lot of mallards in the city’s water ways this spring, but the nearest one is probably close to 1/2 mile away from this lawn. But there they were, waddling around this suburban lawn together. If I were in a car I likely wouldn’t have even seen them and I certainly wouldn’t have been able to pause and appreciate their presence.

Have you found any benefits or surprises to being more active?