Christmas 2017

December 20th 2017 (Top)

Almost three miles this morning! Not too bad a workout! As you can see it was a circuitius route to say the least!

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before - Queen LatifaH

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

Keep busy making practice runs

Next year, Paul is getting one of these!

Dear dear! Sing along with me!

Looks good enought to eat!!

No robbery's gonna occur here while he is on duty!!

Santa feeds the wild beasts

"Shall we open it?

Wonder what is on the inside?

Full speed ahead!

Up Up and away!!

 

December 22th 2017 (Top)

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White

A little fresh air would be good for you just now. The weather is lovely; and a little stroll in the park will bring the colour back to your cheeks. ~J. Palgrave Simpson, For Ever and Never, 1884

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, ed., John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~Henry David Thoreau

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright

Everyone is getting lit up!

Where do they lead?

Proud little guy!

"I am NOT a bank!"

Strutting down the avenue

Party time

"It's hot out here!"

"I gots a flat!

What can I take from these folks?

Winter is definitely here!

Soon I will be naked!

December 26th 2017 (Top)

Three miles this morning! Not too bad a workout! As you can see it was a crazy route today including walking down Seal Beach Boulevard!

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn – that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness – that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. -Jane Austen, Persuasion

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. -Noël Coward

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. -Henry David Thoreau

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. -Mark Twain

It was a cold one this morning!

Beep Beep.... Beep Beep... My car goes Beep Beep Beep

The sleigh is still full!

...and Merry Christmas to you!

These guys are a little skinny, don't you think?"

December 30th 2017 (Top)

Paul walked about 2.01 miles per hour and
20 miles a week! Just perfect to get
some health adventages

Hundreds of medical studies show that regular exercise is good for health — very good, in fact. But many of these studies lump various forms of exercise together to investigate how the total amount of physical activity influences health. It's important research, but it doesn't necessarily prove that walking, in and of itself, is beneficial.

More than 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates said, "Walking is a man's best medicine." To find out if he was right, two scientists from University College London performed a meta-analysis of research published between 1970 and 2007 in peer-reviewed English-language journals. After sifting through 4,295 articles, they identified 18 studies that met their high standards for quality. In all, these studies evaluated 459,833 participants who were free of cardiovascular disease when the investigations began. Each of the studies collected information about the participants' walking habits along with information about cardiovascular risk factors, including — in most studies — age, smoking, and alcohol use and, in many cases, additional health data as well. The participants were tracked for an average of 11.3 years, during which cardiovascular events (angina, heart attack, heart failure, coronary artery bypass surgery, angioplasty, and stroke) and deaths were recorded.

The meta-analysis makes a strong case for walking. In all, walking reduced the risk of cardiovascular events by 31%, and it cut the risk of dying during the study period by 32%. These benefits were equally robust in men and women. Protection was evident even at distances of just 5½ miles per week and at a pace as casual as about 2 miles per hour. The people who walked longer distances, walked at a faster pace, or both enjoyed the greatest protection.

It was a cold one this morning!

It was a cold one this morning!