Walk 5: I Miss Walking!!

Wow, it's been so cold outside that walking is hazardous! And even I am avoiding it! But I miss it and sometimes walk anyway. If I do the layering right, it's bearable but I had a bad experience on Monday as I was outside for more than half and hour and (though I was wearing gloves) I couldn't move my hands to get my keys out of my purse once I got to my house. I momentarily panicked imagining myself standing inside the screen door forever getting increasing stiff and even less able to pull my keys out of this little pocket on the front of the purse. The purse is plastic which doesn't help because it just gets harder to manipulate in the cold. Plus, I couldn't actually bend my hands.

I realized that I literally do get stir crazy if I can't walk. I need to live somewhere where there is lots of indoor walking just for these few weeks...I went to a step class on Monday so that I could march on the spot and do basic turn steps and straddles and other steppy moves...But is this really walking?