The first walk I went on after my cold I got very tired, so tired I decided I wasn't able to continue my LEJOG beginning of April. I couldn't return my tickets, so I lost some money, but I got more time to rest up. And now I'm back to training! I alternate short walks (5K), slightly longer walks (9-10K) and walking stairs at the hospital. I always listen to music when I walk, most of of I've chosen to keep a good pace. This week I changed things a bit. Instead of keeping a fairly constant pace I'm doing intervals, 100 fast steps and 80 slow. I haven't' timed it, but my guess is that it's around 1 minute fast and one slow. And I try to adapt it so that I always walk fast uphill. Well, as fast as I can, at least!
Until recently I've only walked one staircase up and down. From the basement it is 11 floors. I start with going to the top, then down to the basement and up again a couple of floors. Last week I met a friend who was walking up to her job on the first floor. She suggested I alternate the stairwells, so Saturday I walked two floors, then crossed over to the next stairwell, walked two more floors and kept going back and forth between four different stairwells. There are so many more, but there weren't many people around (I was there early) and I didn't feel comfortable walking down dark hallways all alone. Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be different with lots of people around.
Some photos from today's walk - 9 km with a 9 kilo backpack. It felt good, but I'm increasing the weight only slowly, so I will stick with 9 kilos this week.
Morning mist
Crossing the river
