Life is a series of stops and starts. Things got busy and complicated and I ended up stopping my previous walks… and then I started again… and stopped… and started again. I, honestly, had forgotten this blogger spot existed until I was looking for a place to log my latest start. I was so much fun going back through these old posts to see the places I have been. Now, I am super excited to start again because I can see what I am capable of.
This time, I am wanting to do a virtual walk to Disneyland in California starting from my hometown of Freeport, IL. According to Google, walking at a pace of 2.5 miles and hour, it would take me 29 days 11 hours or 707 hours of straight walking to get there. (A total distance of 1949 miles)
My plan is to do a walk everyday and pick way points along the Google route that would show how far along the virtual route I have gone. I am going to use Instagram to track my virtual route. I love taking picture of things I see on my real life walks though and this blog is a perfect place to catalog my real walks!
Today, I took to a portion of the Jane Addams trail. I love walking the trail in the spring and fall before the bugs get too bad. There is a lot of marsh and swamp area along the trail, so in the summer you are practically eaten alive by mosquitos.
The entire trail is 17 miles long starting at Tutty Crossing in Freeport, and finally connecting with the Badger Trail and the Illinois-Wisconsin line. There are multiple trail heads along the trail so you have options where to stop and start. Today we started from the Jane Addams Trail Head and walked out and back crossing under Bus. 20. There’s always artwork on the cement supports so I got a picture today of some of the latest.
Today’s stats:
Distance today: 2.81 miles
Pace: about 21 min/mile
Total distance left till Disneyland: 1944.6 (including the 1.6 miles I walked yesterday)
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