With my walking in the mornings I used to try and �change it up� a little bit. I�d construct different routes and reversing well trodden paths to try and keep it interesting. I soon stopped this when I realised that crossing busy intersections whilst not waiting for the little green man to tell me to do so was inherently dangerous when it�s 6.00am and my eyelids don�t crowbar themselves open until at least 7.00 am. Nor does my brain boot up until at least 10.00 am.

So I scrapped the fancy walks and did the same path every morning (that only involves crossing one [rarely used at that time of the morning] road) only differentiating by reversing my walk around Victoria Park. Clockwise one day, anticlockwise the next.

Then we got pregnant. Baby brain just took away my memory of which way I�d gone the day before. That, and strangely, going anticlockwise just seemed longer. So I continued my clockwise full loop with a half loop at the end for many months.

Then I decided to walk through the uni to get to the park. I felt like I was in another country! Well more specifically, I felt like I was in England.

Those five minutes of traipsing through the lovely grounds of the uni at the beginning of my walk really perked me up. Compared to the boring stretch of Parramatta Road that I normally trundled down to get to the park.

My walking vigor has been renewed! God bless Sydney Uni.

Tyd

5 February 2009 - 1:11 pm

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