Family Photo Walk!

Deon and Karah love to take pictures!  This being said I love my family and I love to spend time with them so when Deon suggested that we all do the photo walk last weekend I was all for it.  The only thing that could have possibly made it more fun was if William and Amy could have joined us too!

We met about 24 other people downtown on the square in Waxahachie at 7am on Saturday and spent 3 hours shooting photos of everything you can imagine!  It was a lot of fun.  Deon took almost 400 pics, Karah took over 400 pics and I even took a little over 200 pics!!!  At the end of the walk we all met at the 1879 Chisholm Trail Restaurant for breakfast, it was very yummy!  There we shared our pics an were instructed to upload our 5 favorite shots we took to be voted on.    Here are my 5 favorite ones that I took...

Problem Solved!

My new shoes were better this morning on my walk than they were on Saturday.  I had them tied too tightly and I was cutting the circulation off in my feet.  That is why my toe were hurting so badly!  However, I noticed a new problem today, not a serious one but a problem none the less.  My heels were sliding around and if I had gone more than the scheduled 3 miles this morning I'm sure I would have had blisters on the bottoms of my heels.  Ouch!  I have to go home this afternoon and see how the "heel lock" is done with the shoe strings of my other pair of shoes and lace these up like that too.  That will allow me to loosen up my shoes so my toes don't fall off while keeping my heel from sliding around in my shoes.

Traded One Problem for Another!

I tried out my new shoes this morning on my 4 mile training walk (it was a very easy training week this week) and found that I traded one problem for another.  The bottoms of my feet did not sting from the socks digging into my feet but my toes hurt.  I am not sure why my toes were hurting as they were not hitting the toe of my shoe.  I'm perplexed!  I will just give it more time and see what happens. 

As I mentioned earlier, this was an easy training week...3 miles on Monday, 2 miles on Tuesday, 5 miles on Wednesday, 1 mile on Thursday, off on Friday and 4 miles on Saturday.  I decided to try something different this week and walk on Tuesday and Thursday too and take Friday off.  I won't be able to do that this coming week because the mileage is much longer on Friday and I won't be able to divide the mileage between Tuesday and Thursday due to time constraints!!  So the schedule this week is 3 miles on Monday, 5 miles on Wednesday, 8 miles on Friday and 6 miles on Saturday. 

New Shoes Are in My Future!

It has come to my attention that the shoes that I have right now may not be the best for my feet.  How have I come to this conclusion you ask, well my feet are screaming at me ever training walk I take.  I really need to have the proper shoes in order to walk 60 miles in November.

So, to that end....Vivian and I are going to head to Luke's Locker tomorrow.  They will access how I walk and tell me the exact shoe I need to be in.  Kelli called me earlier this morning to remind me to take the shoes that I am wearing now with me so they can look at how I walk in those as well.  They can look at how worn they are and where they are worn to help determine the proper shoes for me.  I won't be purchasing these shoes tomorrow because Kay, my dear friend and Pastor's wife wants to buy them for me as a way to support my walk.  Golly, I love her!

This week has been a real accomplishment for me on the training walk front.  I have walked every morning this week and I will also be walking tomorrow.  It has been an easy week walk wise though.  This weeks schedule was and is 3 miles on Monday, 5 miles on Wednesday, 4 miles tomorrow and 3 miles on Saturday.  Since I walked 2 miles on Tuesday and 1 mile today I'm going to take Saturday off.