Category Archives: Walking

Extra Long Arlington Trail Loop

Fitness — It was pretty cool and pretty overcast and it was a very long and very relaxing walk about. I read quite a few magazines and stopped for a couple Gatorades. A little tired at the end and I want to start running soon.

Long Walk on a Hot Day Reading Magazine

Slow and steady and hot and threw away a lot of old magazines.

Three Hour Walk About Barcroft

Hot and slow and reading magazines and listening to the iPod crawling around like a turtle.

Short Ballston Loop Before Miriam’s Kitchen

Needed to squeeze a quick walk in on this cool day before I headed over to Miriam’s Kitchen to act as Sous-Chef. What a perfect day for walking and I read some great articles in New York Magazine.

Barcroft Shirlington Forest Glenn Loop

Walked a slow 7.64 miles in 92 degree weather with a heat index of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. I started late but had a pretty relaxed afternoon.  I put a duffel bag on my back and filled it with some of my stacks of 2010 magazines and burned through 10 of them today. Got a lot [...]

Short and Hot Ballston Loop

It looks like my 305 got switched off at some point — I obviously didn’t cross right across from South George Mason Dr. and Columbia Pike all the way to Bluemont Park. Whoops!

A Long Hot Afternoon Walk-About Loop

I have a duffle bag full of old magazines that I use both for walk ballast as well as a source for reading material over the three+ hours I walked around Northern Virginia, from Rt. 50 and North George Mason Drive all the way to Shirlington, Arlington, Virginia, then around some trails and then back.  [...]

Ballston to Shirlington Loop Fitness Walk

Still Walking Before I Start Running

Starting to Walk Before I Run

I took a morning walk with my Garmin Forerunner 305. Pretty slow but you gotta start somewhere!