500 Mile Journey

500 Mile  Journey with  Kerry and Jean  Let's Get Walking!  Progress Report Week 10 We made it and beyond.  100 mile milestone!! We sure hope you are enjoying your summer.  This week we have mostly been kayaking!!   Morning Kayaking  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2w4c3nEXoY  I used my  "Map My Walk" and it will record the miles we kayak. Come along with us on a kayak ride.  (click video to watch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMT2aYV3WI It's time to celebrate!! we are making plans for the 100 mile celebration.  Two Minutes in Nature  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcypWadK5tk Progress Report  Miles walked: 96.2 Kayaking miles : 8.1 Total miles :  104.3 Miles to complete our 500 miles goal:  395.7 Let's Get Walking Kerry and Jean 

500 Mile Walking Journey with  Kerry and Jean  Let's Get Walking!  We're back to walking today!! Finally the temperatures came down  into the  60's this morning.  It's was great to have a few days of rest.  But it felt even better to get walking again.  This morning when we saw that the temps were going to be lower   before 7 a.m.  we both quickly put our walking shoes on and jumped at the chance to walk.  I've been asked how do we know how many miles we walk each day? It's been made pretty easy to figure out with cell phones and GPS's.  I use a app on my phone called   Map My Walk. It can  literally map out the route we take. It records the miles we walk, duration, avg pace min per miles, calories and steps, along with elevation.  It will analyze your work out for you.  I save them and then at the end of the week it will total our miles.  We hav...

500 Mile Walking Journey with  Kerry and Jean  Let's Get Walking!  Progress Report Week 7 It has been so hot here with lots of fires to the West and East of us. The air has been hot and heavy with smoke. We went up to Twin Falls thinking  we would do some hiking by the canyon ridge, but it was 100 degrees there too! We have not walked much since 4th of July. We did celebrate our 75 miles walking doing the Freedom Run 5K . Freedom Run 5K https://500mileswalkingjourney.blogspot.com/2017/07/500-mile-walking-journey-with-kerry-and.html  Here are some of the fireworks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeruOV9pM2U Progress Report: Miles Walked: 80.5 Miles to reach 500 goal: 419.5 Getting closer each week, our next milestone is at 100 miles  It's especially important to drink lots of water when your walking in this summer heat.  Tip, you can freeze one of your water bottles the night before, it will defro...

500 Mile Walking Journey with  Kerry and Jean  Let's Get Walking!  "All truly great thoughts are  conceived  by walking." Fredrick  Nutzsche What a week we have had! While Kerry and I walk, we talk! It's a great way of sharing our thoughts and bouncing of new ideas off each other.   We are so very close again to our next milestone of 75 miles.  Soooo, we're planning something really cool for next weeks celebration.  This week we kept close to home with our usual walk around the marina. Occasionally, we get lucky and see a big bird fly by, like when we caught the pelican taking off.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmYsznrt8M&t=9s  Spring Creek Marina is getting ready for their 4th of July celebration. They're offering a Freedom 5K walk early in the morning on the 4th with a pancake breakfast. Of Course Kerry and I signed up! We will be walking over to the Marina before the race and hanging arou...

500 Mile Walking Journey with Kerry and Jean  Let's get walking!! We made it!! 50 Mile milestone We have come to our next milestone, and it's time to celebrate!!   We knew we would get there, it was just a matter of when.  I took a week off to rest my knee, than we had company.... it stormed, then it got hot.... the truth is sometimes I don't want to walk!! Oh, yes it happens.  I just kept saying to myself, " T his is not a sprint, it's a marathon.".  It's not about how fast we do the walks, it's the journey.   We walked around the Spring Creek Marina this morning, and what a surprise we found.  Two Minutes In Nature with a pelican.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmYsznrt8M Tomorrow we plan on going up the canyon  with Sarah and James  so they can   celebrate with us.  Be Inspired, Kerry and Jean 

  500 Mile Walking Journey with  Kerry and Jean Let's Get Walking! Kerry and Jean with their Teton 5K medals. Welcome Back! Kerry and I just got back from doing the Teton 5K in Rexbury, Id. . What a wonderful day we had.  They were commemorating 41 years of the Teton Dam's flood.    We went early in the morning, our race started at 8:30.  Teton 5K video at the race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruy4lwrTZiA&t=20s Kerry and I started doing 5K's as a way for me to recover from knee surgery. Walking is good physical therapy, plus I like to have goals.  We started looking around the community for 5K's . It's a good way to give back to local towns doing fundraisers, plus we get the health benefits of walking.  After doing a few close to home, we started to venture out  looking for 5K's where we planned to travel.  This is the site I use to find 5K's for when we travel.  http://www.runningint...

500 Mile Walking Journey with Kerry and Jean  Let's Get Walking! This week we went to a ZOO to walk. We visited the Idaho Falls Zoo with our son Matthew.  When your a walker and your goal is to walk 500 miles in half a year, you count every step.  While we walked all around this zoo and spent almost 2 hours there  our miles only came to .64.  So, we had to do another walk around the river after dinner.  Enjoy our trip to the zoo.  We must have spent 30 minutes watching the loins.  We got there early in the morning while they were still active.