What Will We Do After The Walk?

We have been looking for things to keep us on our feet walking. To start with, we will be walking in the San Diego Marathon (http://www.sdmarathon.com/) in January 2003. Training for this will be harder in some ways and easier in others. For the 3-Day walk, we had to train two long back to back days, for the marathon we just need to training 1 long day. This will make it easier, but we need to train for a longer walk, 26.2 miles, this will be a little harder. We figure an 18 mile training walk takes us 6 hours walking, plus 2 prep, 1 cleanup and 1 for lunch or 10 hours! That is a long day, but we only have to do that on Saturday or Sunday not both.

Another fun thing about the marathon is that a group of co-workers from Cal Poly will be training and walking with us. There is a group from the Human Recourses Department, Katie used to work in HR and I now support HR, that do walking vacation events together. One of them, Debbie, walked in the Avon 3-Day walk a couple of years ago and is where Katie got the idea to do the Walk. Anyway, the group picks some big thing to do every year that involves walking. I was telling Debbie about the San Diego Marathon and she told the others and now they will be walking in the marathon too. It should be a blast.

We have also found some websites on Volkssport (www.ava.org - http://members.aol.com/WalkCalif/) and it sounds like a blast. We have ordered our starter pack and plan to start walking. We are also going to get our bikes into operating condition and start cross training on the bikes. We will do like we did with the walking, start small and work our way up. We really have to get our bottoms into shape for riding. We are also taking about doing a little light backpacking. I think this one is a ways out still, but it is just another way to keep walking.

Bob