Sunday is my day to walk. I still get up at 5 but I want/need/have to give my legs a rest day. I get in between 3 and 4 miles. I have a nearly hidden talent when I walk, I can read at the same time. I read newspaper, magazines, paperback books (hard cover books are a little heavy - I'll do it though!). I can't remember when I started doing this but I'm sure it was in elementary school. I have always been a reader and since we generally walked to school I would take the time to read. I can't remember the series name but there was a set of red biographies in the Elizabeth Page Elementary School in Springfield Oregon that I loved! I went through all of them, and I think there were about 30 of them, in about two weeks. But back to the subject. Because it is usually too dark to read when I start walking I will carry the book/magazine/newspaper with me until it is light enough: I have been known to read by street light walking slower through the areas that I can read and then doing a power walk to the next area of light. I'm sure I make an odd sight to some that come across me doing this. On occassion I have walked into things, small dogs, benches and fire hydrants but overall I'm pretty good at avoiding things. Let's just say I have good perphiral vision.
I also read when I walk. It was at its zenith in college though and I could manage an entire BYU campus (up stairs, across fields, around buildings...) worth of lit each morning before I got to work.
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