Walking

I don't know what it is about walking that makes me feel so good...endorfins I guess... so why doesn't walking on the tread mill feel quite the same...it certainly makes me more sympathetic towards gerbils, because all the walking gets you no where on the treadmill.

I have a really old treadmill, by old I mean 16 yrs. old...but in technology time that is ancient...the new treadmills have tv screens on the console or MP3 players...that you can load your favorite songs into.    I have always wanted an eliptical machine....Dr.OZ says if you were going to buy just one piece of gym equipment then the eliptical would be it.
I was swimming last year...My sister S got me started...when I was visiting her  and once I got home I was excited to go ... I got a membership to our facility and swam 5 times a week to begin with...but by the fall I had to drop to just 4 times a week, by the beginning of Nov. the water and cold dry air of impending winter were really bothering my skin and I had quite a problem...besides the bad roads and extreme cold the cost was bothering me as well...then calving came and I wouldn't have been able to go at all then because I can not drive at night and R was too tired to take me like he had been doing a couple of times a week in the summer. I was paying $50 per month which wasn't a bad deal if you used the gym, running track and spin classes but since it was a 40 min. drive there and 40 min back I was limited to what I had time for...  Swimming was a passion of mine when I was young...I used to belong to a swim club for a couple of years...with my friend Mike so I really miss not going swimming now...I hope to resume my trips to the pool but rather than aquisize  I may just do laps...I can go earlier in the morning and have the pool all to myself.   I wish I had a walking partner but I have to argue with R everytime I want to walk a few miles around here...he doesn't want me to, he thinks it unsafe... living in town would be soooooo much better...