So I have decided to add walking to my list of exercises on my running log. In fact, if you read this blog post in a timely manner, you will see that I did some walking back on April 8th. 4.5 miles as a matter of fact. Why would I do something like that, you might ask? Well… read on.
Red Robin has a free birthday burger that they email you. Well, they don’t email you the burger (that would be tricky) – just a coupon for one. I was going to go on my actual birthday since I was out in the area for lunch, but alas, I had forgotten my coupon, and I didn’t feel like driving back to work to get it. I thought that I could probably have gotten away with it by showing them my license or something but just decided to do it the next day.
So the next day dawned and around 11 or so I decided to walk to Red Robin. I looked it up and it was only 2.5 miles (turned out to be about 2.3 as I cut through an abandoned golf course). It was a beautiful day (about 70 degrees or so) so I thought eh why not. Plus, I had just read an article about hypermiling so I was being all fuel conscious.
I think that had I realized QUITE how far 2.5 miles is (while walking) that I might have reconsidered. I know I definitely rued the long sleeve black shirt I picked out in the morning…
Pretty uneventful. The burger was good, and came with fries. It was interesting in seeing how just because the fries were there, I ate them, even though I’m trying my revolutionary diet, and as such didn’t really want them. I did not eat all of them though, which is unusual for me (I have a big “clean your plate” problem when it has food I like). I ate by myself and then tipped the waitress with a buck or so of change I had in my desk.
At least they didn’t bring me out a plate of nothing but a candle!
I do want to point out that I am not counting this walking time toward my goal of 4 days of exercise. I also want to point out that if you did NOT read this post in a timely fashion (so as to be able to see my walking outing on the exercise widget well then what’s wrong with you? You need your recommended daily allowance of DanMiller after all.
3 responses to “Some walking adventures”
where did your little graph go that showed your points? I liked that!
I took that down because it wasn’t working for me.
I may bring it back at some point.
There’s two golf courses that fit your description. I’m betting it was Western Row that provided your cut-through. They need to get some sidewalk on that road!