My Journey With Health And Fitness – The Weather Is Not Cooperating

I am absolutely sure Amazon loves this time of year. I admit, I am doing most of my shopping through them and the delivery van arrives pretty much every day. The challenge is that my husband uses my Amazon account so I know what he is getting me for Christmas. Ok, that kind of takes the fun out of it but at least I can make sure I am getting the things I want.

So the weather has decided that it is not going to cooperate with me walking 30km/day and has decided to rain today and for the next several days. I have a few options here, don’t do the walks (oh, like that is going to happen), use the dreaded treadmill (no way will I use that 6 hours each day) or suck it up and figure out how to walk in the pouring rain. I have chosen the latter.

Today it was really raining 2 of my 3 walks (still raining on the 3rd walk just not as much). It was time to dress strategically so that I could stay as dry as possible. While I thought I had mastered it, it didn’t quite work out as planned. For the 1st walk since it was also colder out I wore my leggings cover by sweatpants, a long sleeved t-shirt and my heavy rain slicker. I also added a ball cap because the hood on the rain slicker still allows a lot of rain to hit my eyes. Off I went thinking all was ok and really it wasn’t that bad except 2 hours of walking in the pouring rain stuff is going to get wet.

For the 2nd walk I had to get rid of the long sleeved t-shirt as it was wet and I switched out to my lighter rain jacket. I also had to switch out the ball cap as it was pretty soaked through. I added a sweat shirt and off I went again, By time that walk was done both the sweatpants and shirt were wet but I decided I wasn’t changing them out as I knew I would just be getting another set wet and really they weren’t horribly soaked. I did, however, have to change my socks to dry ones

I got home from the 3rd walk and put the ball cap, neck gaitor and my shoes in front of the gas fireplace. Yes, even though the rain was much lighter so much of what I was wearing was already wet from previous walks. Now I am washing everything in order to be able to do it all over again tomorrow. I did realize at the end of this walk that I can do wet as long as it isn’t cold and vice versa. I also now have no expectation of keeping completely dry.

The rain is not going to stop me, I am going to finish this challenge.