Walking Progress

After walking on the treadmill 5 days last week, I've only managed 3 days of walking this week. The good news is that I walked OUTSIDE today for a change. It cooled off enough and the humidity dropped, so that it was actually in the 60s this morning- what a wonderful change! I hadn't walked outside in a LONG time and I kind of went overboard- I walked 3.6 miles in about 58 minutes. This is much faster than I walk on the treadmill (I usually walk about 3.5 mph- and this was about 3.7 mph). It was also further than I've been walking (3.6 miles rather than 2.75). I can tell you I was exhausted by the time I got home. I also listened to music again (hooray). I had a playlist from last fall on shuffle. It has 25 tracks, so I didn't listen to the whole thing and they didn't play in this order (since it was on shuffle). Here's what I heard:

• Coldplay -– Shiver
• Incubus -– Drive
• Soundgarden -– Burden in My Hand
• The Stone Roses -– Love Spreads
• Madonna -– Don'’t Tell Me
• Depeche Mode -– Enjoy the Silence
• Pernice Brothers -– Weakest Shade of Blue
• Everclear -– Santa Monica
• Peter Gabriel -– Solsbury Hill
  
• U2 -– Red Hill Mining Town
• Stone Temple Pilots -– Interstate Love Song
• Madonna -– Music
• Supergrass -– Cheapskate (one of my favorites- but it's TOO short!)
• Pearl Jam - Black

So, I can't feel too bad about my walking progress, since I'm still averaging 4 days a week. It will be interesting to see how I do when the semester starts!

tags: goal-setting & accountability, workout playlists