The last few years, we've started walking at the mall on days when the weather is cold and wet, or hot and windy. I can usually do one complete loop in about 15:20, and four complete laps is roughly equivalent to 3.75 miles in one hour. That's close enough for government work.
On days when we mall-walk, there usually aren't too many customers since it's normally a chilly, drizzly weekday afternoon. Today, though, we decided to try it at 5:00 PM on a Saturday afternoon when the parking lot was full of cars.
I have to admit, I enjoyed the experience today. Generally, mall-walking is as interesting as watching your toenails grow, particularly if you're recording measurements (time, speed, and distance). Walking past the same boutiques, salons, shoe stores, and jewelers three or four times can become monotonous. The exception: Victoria's Secret, which is never boring -- at least for me.
When the mall is crowded with people of all ages and sizes, moving at different speeds or just standing around chatting on their phones, things get challenging when you're trying to maintain a constant pace and stride. I realized that I was actually concentrating. I normally put it on automatic pilot, but today I was fully focused on my plan to weave around and through clusters of people, avoiding collisions without ever slowing down. It was like my version of the Gene Hackman chase scene in The French Connection.
On days when we mall-walk, there usually aren't too many customers since it's normally a chilly, drizzly weekday afternoon. Today, though, we decided to try it at 5:00 PM on a Saturday afternoon when the parking lot was full of cars.
I have to admit, I enjoyed the experience today. Generally, mall-walking is as interesting as watching your toenails grow, particularly if you're recording measurements (time, speed, and distance). Walking past the same boutiques, salons, shoe stores, and jewelers three or four times can become monotonous. The exception: Victoria's Secret, which is never boring -- at least for me.
When the mall is crowded with people of all ages and sizes, moving at different speeds or just standing around chatting on their phones, things get challenging when you're trying to maintain a constant pace and stride. I realized that I was actually concentrating. I normally put it on automatic pilot, but today I was fully focused on my plan to weave around and through clusters of people, avoiding collisions without ever slowing down. It was like my version of the Gene Hackman chase scene in The French Connection.
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