Good morning!
How are you guys doing today?
Ryan and I returned from our vacation late on Sunday night and ever since then we’ve been back in our normal routine with lots of catch-up going on!
Vacation was obviously amazing, but I sure did miss Sadie.
She had a great time at my parents’ house and gave us a warm welcome complete with whimpering and wiggling when we picked her up on Sunday evening.
It’s good to be back!
Vacation Workouts and Walking
During our entire 10-day vacation I managed to work out two times. Though I love a good workout, I didn’t really miss the gym too much because I still felt like I was moving a lot thanks to tons of walking. Ryan and I would map out our days ahead of time and figure out how to walk from point to point. We ended up covering a ton of ground, especially in the big cities like Dublin and London. It was a blast!
Whenever I visit my friend Merri in New York, I experience the same thing. Without a car to rely on, we walk everywhere and I love being outside and moving around throughout the day. While I am sure walking in the freezing cold and snow would get really old really fast, I hope Ryan and I can one day live in a very walkable town. (My current hometown received a walkability score of zero.)
Workout
Since I won’t be walking miles and miles today, I headed to the gym to work up a sweat this morning. Round five of Tina’s Best Body Boot Camp began on Monday and today’s workout focused on strength training in an unstable environment. Lots of Bosu ball action!
Breakfast
After my workout, it was breakfast time!
I dug into a bowl of peanut butter oatmeal cookie dough overnight oats that I prepped last night.
So good. So filling.
Question of the Morning
- Do you live in a walkable area?
- How important is it to you to live somewhere walkable?
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Right now I live in a small city where I can walk into town, walk to work, and walk to the beach, and it’s awesome! I don’t have a car either so it’s really good to be able to get around easily. I grew up in a city that really wasn’t very walkable and the public transport system wasn’t very good. It’s so much better to live in a place where you don’t always have to hop in a car to get somewhere!
Welcome back home and glad you and Ryan had a fabulous time. I miss living in a walkable city. We just came from Germany where on a Sunday, you see young and old walking or riding their bicycles through the trails, to where we currently live. We live in a beautiful & growing area considered the richest nation on Earth but recently labeled as the “fattest” with @50% of the adults considered obese & 17% suffering from diabetes. It is a small Arab country who is desparately trying to educate folks about healthy living and not too long ago we celebrated Sports day with a day full of activities for all ages. Part of that iniative, “workout” machies have been placed at convenient locations to encourage folks that one doesn’t need gym membership to stay fit. But everything is so convenient (i.e. McDonald’s even delivers). I am hoping our next adventure will take us to a place where we can walk and not have to always hop in a machine 🙂
I live in Indianapolis, and I checked the score…which is a 37. We are still a car-dependent city with some walkable neighborhoods…mine being one of them! I love visiting cities that are walkable, and I hope to always have a little bit of that. I interned in DC for a summer and LOVED walking everywhere 🙂 Also, I tried the peanut butter cookie dough overnight oats this morning….so good!!! They really are like cookie dough!
I live in Boston, so it is very walkable! I also commute into the city every day and walk, on average, 2 miles, which is a great addition to my daily workouts:)
Walkability is really important to me. I recently lived in Paris for a month and absolutely loved how easy it was to walk everywhere, even to get food shopping. It’s great to get that extra bit of exercise without even trying!
By FAR my favorite thing about living in Manhattan is how walk-able it is. I try to remind myself of how important that is when I’m miserable during the blistery cold winters 😉
I live in Arlington (suburb of DC) and it is definitely walkable! I would say about half of the people I know do not own cars. Whenever I go into DC I walk and when I go out at night I metro or walk! I love it because after going to dinner I can walk home and get my belly moving a little!
Welcome back!!!
I love walking. I actually just posted about my new affinity for evening walks! I live in a semi-walkable town but I’d love to live in the city where I don’t have to rely on my car. Sounds like you had a blast on your trip! 🙂
welcome back home…my hometown scored a zero…bummer..but if you live intown i think it is very walkable…running lots of great running so i will smile about that 🙂
I love that you mentioned walkability! I am pursuing my MPH in “Physical Activity in Public Health” and for one of my classes last year, we had to do an assessment of the campus, including walkability. I live in DC, and it is an extremely walkable city. I can’t imagine not being able to walk most places I want to go! When I go home to Pennsylvania, I find it very hard to be confined to a car, especially since I don’t have one and have to rely on someone else! No bueno. If you and Ryan are ever in the DC area, please let me know! I have been here for 6 years so I can show you a lot of hidden secrets of the city 🙂
I get jealous every time you eat those oats haha. I always find that walking on vacation is great exercise- plus it kills your legs haha.
I felt the same way when I went to Japan. We walked EVERYWHERE and I think I only worked out once in 10 days, which was weird for me but a welcome break too. Getting back into the routine didn’t take too long either.
-AJ
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I lived, worked and took classes in Washington, D.C. this past fall during an internship program and loved being able to walk everywhere. I mapped out an excursion every weekend to different farmer’s markets, museums and monuments. Walking around Georgetown and window shopping was one of my favorite things to do.
It was a little disappointing returning to Gainesville for school and having to rely on the bus since I don’t have a car. However, I can still walk around the UF campus. I hope to return to D.C. or live in a different walkable city after graduating next spring.