So I like to take long walks on the weekend
@DocAndersen (54399)
United States
May 9, 2021 6:50am CST
my goal is 30,000 steps at least one weekend day every weekend.
Yesterday right about 10 miles into a 10.5-mile walk, it started to rain. Ok, a little rain is fine.
Then about 10.4 miles into that walk, it started to (as you can see in the picture) hail.
Look, Hail Hail, the band's all here cool!
Hail falling on you as you are trying to get home, not cool mother nature!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
9 May 21
it wasn't big enough to hurt but it sure was bouncing around me!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
9 May 21
it was not, but, that little smart car in the far corner of the picture is right in front of my house!
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
9 May 21
@DocAndersen Close to home, that is good.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
9 May 21
@CarolDM yeah but I did my best Carol impression and took a picture!!!!! i wasn't wearing camo though.
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@allen0187 (59761)
• Philippines
9 May 21
Good luck with your goal. Hope you achieve it.
Tough luck on the hail.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
9 May 21
i got 32,000 yesterday - likely 31k today
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@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
10 May 21
Ew Hard, cold rain! You walked for over 10 miles? Kudos to you for that! Have a good week.
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@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
10 May 21
@DocAndersen Wow! That's a lot. Just don't overdo!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
10 May 21
@LindaOHio i am careful and I don't walk as fast as I used to!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
10 May 21
i did 32 miles between saturday and Sunday this week!!!!
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89633)
• Rupert, Idaho
10 May 21
30,000 steps? Oh my! But that is a good goal. Sorry about the hail during your walk!
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89633)
• Rupert, Idaho
10 May 21
@DocAndersen Well that is over 900,000 steps for just those days! I barely have over 1,000 today at almost 2 PM lol.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
11 May 21
@MommyOfEli2013 in fact it is but i average 20,000 steps a day.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
10 May 21
I try at least one weekend day to hit that. So far this year (2021) i have hit that 30 times!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
12 May 21
walking is the easiest exercise because you can do it anywhere at any time!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
14 May 21
thank you - that was really nice of you to say!!!!
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@garymarsh6 (24006)
• United Kingdom
9 May 21
Not very nice especially if the hail is golf ball size!
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@garymarsh6 (24006)
• United Kingdom
9 May 21
@DocAndersen That cab be painful enough!
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
9 May 21
@garymarsh6 i had a jacket and a hat, luckily nothing really hit me. Then I moved briskly it was only about 100 meters to my house!
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
11 May 21
That was a very long walk for sure.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
11 May 21
it gets me focused on the weekend!
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
10 May 21
Do the labs accompany you, sometimes? Ore are they too attached to their soft beds?
Perhaps, you could even outwalk them; it sounds too much for a lap dog, sorry lab dog, ( or for most other dogs too, I would expect).
@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
11 May 21
@DocAndersen So, you have been doing that walk for many years. You must have clocked up some real miles in that time.
@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
11 May 21
The labs are both over 10 now, they walk a much shorter walk. They used to go the whole way, but that has been a few years.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
11 May 21
@innertalks i averaged 16,000 steps a day for the last 8 years. (around 7 miles or 10 km)
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@Butterfingers (66603)
• India
12 May 21
Yes there is nothing like long walks when the weather is not so hot
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@Virtually2021 (828)
• Southend-On-Sea, England
9 May 21
I'm trying to do 10000 steps a day.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
9 May 21
that is an awesome goal - good luck!!!!
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