1000K celebration at Linden Gardens BC
I am lucky enough to be in the Penticton BC area for a week following the Can Fit Pro meeting in Toronto last week. It is hot, with sandy beaches and lots of sports from water skiing and paddle surfing to biking and hiking. I want to share a great walking experience my wife Margaret has introduced me to of recent. It is called Map My Walk and it is an app that uses your phone’s GPS to Map your Walk. What is neatest about it is you can see the elevation, the distance and time as well as all the roads in the area so it even exposes you to new walks you may not have known existed. Yesterday our whole family walked with Margaret for 7 K to celebrate a significant milestone in her walk mapping. I am proud to say that from March 25 till Aug 19th Marg has logged 1000 K ( 620 Miles) on her I walk. That’s a great amount of walking and it seems the more she tracks it the more she wants to walk. What great motivation.
Tubing for fun and Pain
15 feet to cool down in Skaha Lake
She has even managed to get me out for a number of walk including our longest around a local lake in Calgary of 17 k. Walking is a fun and healthy activity and it is easy on the body. I am almost over a 2 year challenge with a re-occurring core injury and the walking seems to help a lot. If I could just be a little smarter than I am, I would do it more often and try to avoid the summer sports of high speed tubing, water skiing, wake boarding at least until my core and back are 100% again. Problem with that is summer in Canada is short and I only get this one week to squeeze in a full summer of beach and water sports. I guess I should be looking for my own app called “Map My Rehab” to keep track of the healing process of my summer holiday over-use injuries! OR I could just take one more week of holidays…… but knowing me that would lead to twice the injuries so best stick to the program. Happy summer and stay healthy!
PS For safe summer fun at the beach bring along a Slackline to set up between 2 trees. It is a great crowd pleaser for all ages and so long as it is kept clear of bikes and chairs and stuff, it seems to be fairly safe. They set up in seconds if you read the instructions and follow them.
Slacklines are fun and easy to learn for all ages
