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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> about hypermiling<\/a> so I was being all fuel conscious.<\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n 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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n At least they didn’t bring me out a plate of nothing but a candle<\/a>!<\/p>\n