The distance of the contemporary marathon is 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 kilometres), and I always admire those who line up to participate in the New York Marathon. The race is this coming Sunday, November 4th.I do walk that far in an average week, sometimes strolling at 3 mph and other times I push it to 4 mph. When I'm out with my dogs, there's a lot of stopping to smell the flowers and other things. When I'm trying to walk off the cupcakes, I try for the 15 minute mile, which is slightly faster than Vincent Van Gogh's walking pace of a 20 minute mile. I lost 20 pounds this year walking off the Big Apple.
Totaling my average weekly mileage since I began WOTBA in the middle of July, I've walked about 364 miles, or roughly the distance between Greenwich Village and the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
I began WOTBA as a diet and exercise journal, a physical notebook that existed six weeks prior to its debut online. I still write in my journal, but not as often. It didn't take long, however, for the initial physical, artistic and mental pursuits to crack open my imagination. Walking off the Big Apple has evolved into a journey through, art, culture, and society. For me, WOTBA has made me more cultured, more connected, more concerned, more joyful, and more physically fit. In so many ways, I have walked farther than I could have ever imagined.
-Teri, the sole staff of WOTBA (except when I'm sipping absinthe, and then the fairy kingdom comes to help me).
Image:WOTBA's business card. When I'm walking I usually wear a pair of Merrell aqua-colored aquatic all-terrain athletic shoes. When I wear them, I forget that I'm even wearing shoes. You think I walked 364 miles in cowboy boots? Symbolically, yes. Realistically, no.
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