22 miles

I. Walked. 22. Miles! OMG that dumbfounds me lol. wow never thought I would say that let alone do it. 

It was a nice change of weather with walking in now fall season.  Perfect temperature with a nice breeze to keep cool but not cold.  Katie and I walked from West Olive to the State Park and back. It took us 6 hours to accomplish.  We are looking forward to this coming Saturday.  TNT, the group we are walking for, is having a trial/practice marathon (only 20 miles not 26.2 miles) that will be held in Grand Rapids.  This way any friends or family members who can't partake in the actual marathon can still cheer us on to the finish line.

Katie and I leave for California to accomplish our marathon in 4 weeks. It is getting real exciting and I can't wait.

20 miles

September 5th (Memorial Day) was a good day to walk because of less traffic.  Downtown Holland had their 3rd annual Labor Day walk from the boardwalk to Windmill Island (4 miles).  Katie and I walked from her house to the boardwalk, to windmill Island, and on our way to many of different places from there. 20 miles is a long walk. Katie and I had lots to catch up on but even by the last couple of hours we were loss for words.  We joked with saying we were sleep walking. After all we did wake up at 7:15 to get our day started.  We were foolish to not check the weather. As we do typically, we went out in our shorts and t-shirts only to discover the day was not going to warm up.  Probably the hardest walk yet.  My joints kept tightening up because of the cold brisk fall weather. Next time I will be a bit smarter and check the weather before I do that again.


Thanks to momma Dankovic we came home to hot cocoa and marshmallows :)

and of course the time we DONT want sprinklers we encounter many option to cool off.  Wish me well I have sense gotten a cold on top of a fever.  Suppose to go out walking tomorrow (Sunday September 11) but I don't see that happening with me being pretty ill still :(

Thanks to momma Dankovic we came home to hot cocoa and marshmallow :)

18 miles

Sunday Aug. 28th. 18 miles baby. It was rough to say the least. Katie and I walked to downtown and passed all the big rich homes. We typically will keep walking until we meet the half way mark and turn around and walk the rest. No food equaled growling starving bellies. Luckily we turned around a bit early to return to a store we passed. Wow, didn't realize a Lunchable could taste so gourmet lol.  Because we turned around early we had to make up mileage and ended up attemting to walk a longer route back...needless to say we had to walk past our destination 2 times before we were done. That was a sad moment to see Katie's house but had to walk past it. 

Thanks to our Nike+ we are able to track our distance accurately