It's Friday! Insert happy dance!  Doing a 5K tomorrow with several friends. Should be a great morning.  I've got a big weekend walking schedule.  12 miles both tomorrow and Sunday.  Sunday, we'll start testing new equipment for WAO.  Fred has a GPS tracker that gets a signal from my radio and we'll play with that a little and see how it works.  I was hoping that we could put a map on the WAO website so you could see on the map where I was at any given time, but I guess its not that easy.  It may end up being too complicated to put on the website, but regardless, Fred will always know my exact location.  Really, since I'm only travelling 15-20 miles a day, knowing the exact location isn't that big of a deal for almost everyone else. 

Didn't end up doing much of anything yesterday.  I sat on my butt almost all day playing with WAO route information.  I took a break to get my walk in, but didn't do anything else at all.  Guess it was good for me because I feel much more energetic today.  Its funny how the progression of the week works.  On Monday, I can hardly walk from being so stiff and sore from the weekend walking and it feels great to take the day off. By Tuesday, I'm still stiff and sore, but not as much and the 4 mile walk loosens things up a bit.  Wednesday's bike really makes things feel good and gets rid of any residual soreness.  Thursday is a fun, feel good day and I'm always tempted to go farther than the plan.  By Friday, the legs and hips feel good and are ready to get back out there.  Then its time for the weekend to start it all over again.  I'm going to make a better effort to stretch lots this weekend and see if I can't head off some of the Monday stiffness.

I did a new WAO blog post yesterday.  You can read it here.

Lots of fun doing a route study in Northern Ohio.  Really glad we went up because I've decided to change the finale of the walk from Eastern Sandusky to western Sandusky.  The original ending destination was very close to Cedar Point and we'd have a ton of traffic to deal with.  I found a great walking road  a few miles west that takes me to the other side of Sandusky where the traffic should be much better.  I just need to find a place to actually walk into the lake.  It would be anticlimatic if I made it to Sandusky and couldn't put my feet in Lake Erie.   We spent some time today at the Marblehead Lighthouse walking on the rocks.  The weather was absolutely beautiful and hardly any people were out today. Ate at my favorite fish joint - the only thing I missed was my Key Lime ice cream from Tofts.  Eh, looks like we'll have to do another trip. :)

Ahhhh, rest day.  I need it.  Pretty much everything below the waist is achey.  One bad thing about being too busy over the weekend is that I didn't take the time to stretch out properly after I walked and now my hips are so stiff, I feel like the tin man.  I'll work on getting them loosened up today.  We're taking a little road trip today!  Going up north to deliver a lawn mower, visit with friends, and do a WAO route study. Fred is meeting with a friend who is current and qualified in digital ham radio so he can transmit walk updates from the road.  

Happy Mother's day!  Pretty happy with the weekend walking, especially considering that so many other things are going on this weekend.  Would have been happier this morning keeping it to 5ish miles and doing a second walk, but I didn't figure I'd get the 2nd one in, so I went a little longer.  Next weekend should be calmer and I'll be able to play with shorter multiple walks.

Taking our mothers out for brunch.  Going to a beautiful country club.  Too bad its raining.  The views from the patio are truly spectactular.  Plan to laze around when we get back home.

Had a decent week on the weight loss front.  Feel like I ate more than I should have, but still managed to drop another pound, so I'm happy.  The added mileage is definitley helping.

Finally decided on a camera.  Played with them in the store and found that the Canon was much easier for me to navigate than the Nikon. Ordered a very pretty green Canon SX260 HS with a 20X zoom.  Very excited to get it and start playing with it!