500 Mile Journey

500 Mile Walking Journey with  Kerry and Jean  Happy 4th of July We hope you enjoyed the 4th with your  family and friends.  Jean and Kerry ready to do the  Freedom Run 5K  We made it to our 75 miles milestone  doing the 5K walk at the Spring Creek Marina  on 4th of July morning.  What a wonderful morning here in Nevada.  We registered, put our numbers on, and watched the flag ceremony  before the race began at 7:30. Flag ceremony video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feKW6iXHrjs Registration line, and thank you to the  Ruby Mountain Relay for puting on the 5K race. The Relay for Life , for the pancake breakfast.. "Walking is man's best medicine."  Hippocrates Join us for the 5K races and our 500 Miles Walking Journey 5K video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q87XUY00OZ4 What a surprise to receive awards for our time on this race.  This was o...

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...

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500 Mile Walking Journey with  Kerry and Jean  Let's Get Walking!  Progress Report Time It's Sunday Morning.  It's official  Summer's here.  Today we walked up to our little market and got coffee and donuts.  We're trying to see if we can add miles by going to different places each day, just to mixed it up a bit.  However, we are finding that the most fun and interesting daily walk is around the  Spring Creek Marina with the birds migrating.  If you are just joining us this week,  we have just completed our second milestone of walking 50 Miles.  Here is our celebration. https://500mileswalkingjourney.blogspot.com/2017/06/500-mile-walking-journey-50-mile.html We celebrated with our daughter, Sarah and our grandson James for a hike and picnic in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada.  Now that we are retired, and have all the time in the world, we thought we would walk, hike, and spe...

500 Mile Walking Journey with Kerry and Jean  Let's get walking!! We are celebrating our 50 Miles of walking!! We made our second milestone of walking 50 miles. Here's our song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPFioq1l6o We cerebrated our 50 miles with our daughter Sarah and our grandson James.  We started the day by hiking a short 1/2 trail at Hanging Valley in Lamoille, Nv.   and then on to lunch at the Power House picnic area.  Medals Kerry medal says," All Glory Comes From Daring To Begin." Eugen Ware  Jean's medal says, " Nothing is worth more than this day." Jahann Woldfang Von Goethe This was a meaningful milestone since although there was no doubt that we would get here, it was just a matter of when.  Between resting, company, and weather, my motivation was going down.  Dessert by the miles  Enjoy the Hanging Valley with us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2guCVCkM8E Ne...

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