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On 1/24/2022 11:00 AM, Clutterfreak wrote:
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Notes on my walk yesterday: (Jan 24, 2022)

Cloudy all over with occasional light rain. Then at a little corner down 
there close to horizon Sun managed to peek out. It created an amazing 
rainbow on the opposite side of the sky. Lasted about 15 minutes. Then 
Sun disappeared never to show up again for the rest of the day.

Saw several packs of american robin, cardinals (including many bright 
red male ones), chickadees, and a pack of six herons sitting at their 
usual spots on a tree adjacent to a pond. They always sit on the highest 
branches of the tree and there's always a pond very close to it. I 
haven't seen them on the ground. Rarely on water and almost always on 
top of such trees. And they seem to be in groups, not singles or duos 
like ducks and geese.

It was too dark to see their colors but I think they were blue herons.

Winter clothing for walking in this area of USA can be a tricky matter. 
Temperature varies greatly in 24 hours all by itself. 30 degrees or more 
variation is common. Add appearance and disappearance of sun to it and 
you get more sudden variations. Even as you walk from a sunny spot to a 
shady stretch of the track temperature takes a quick deep drop! Like 10 
degrees F just from a sun-bathed area into shady areas. This all makes 
clothing a matter of concern when you are walking 2 hours or more, cause 
if you are not careful you'll either end up carrying your jacket (and 
sometimes blouse and even long-sleeve shirt, all three!) in your hands 
most of the way, or you'll freeze your ass every time a breeze hits you.

Temperature itself doesn't hurt you in any way but the stress it creates 
can build up during hours of walk and beats half of the purpose of doing 
the walking in the first place.

Tiniest stresses can add up. Even walking on grassy areas creates enough 
stress to make you twice as tired for the same distance compared to 
walking on cement firm ground. Each step you take, because the body does 
not know 100% where and when exactly the foot hits the ground, extra 
muscles of the feet and body automatically begin to get alert and active 
to maintain the posture for the coming unknown. A few steps in this way 
doesn't make a difference, but as I've tested it hundreds of times, when 
you walk a mile or so over the grass these effects add up considerably 
and you emerge from the area quite tired!

So I think temperature has a similar effect by the stress it may be 
creating. If it is too hot or too cold for comfort, stress begins to 
build up.

I don't watch TV, and sometimes there's nobody on the track for no 
obvious reason. This time I only saw one of the regulars, the Chink. No 
one else was there the entire walk. Temperature wasn't that bad (it was 
great indeed, average around 52 degrees) and it wasn't too wet at all. 
Yet all these people you see on other days, cold or hot,  had 
disappeared. Some nonsense shit must've been on TV, that's my guess. A 
"football" game or such crap. A "state of the union" crook talk or 
something.

Shoes are also a sensitive matter for long walks. When I was working in 
a warehouse environment at least four hours of each 8 hour shift was 
spent walking, climbing up and down, lifting this and that, stepping 
into variously shaped areas and grounds, etc. It required a type of 
shoes that I could hardly find readily available for purchase. Walking 
is a much simpler form of using shoes. But even walking requires 
adequate attention to the features in my shoes. As I mentioned it once 
in these notes, presently I use two pairs of shoes for walking. A 
special design of a cheap Walmart brand ("Star") that by chance matches 
most of my requirements almost perfectly, and a certain type of 
Sketchers. The walmart brand was I think about $20 or $24, Sketchers was 
around $100.

For just walking, I need these two different shoes. Sketchers has a more 
solid less flexible less shock-resistant feature to it, which works 
great for long distance walking if you are in shape and full of energy 
and have slept at least 8 hours the night before :) It actually makes 
walking easier. But when tired, I have to use my walmart shoes which 
feels like my feet are surrounded by shock-resistant material. It is as 
if I'm walking on Styrofoam :) This makes walking more comfortable but 
actually uses up more energy for the same distance walked compared to 
the sketchers. So it is a give and take matter.

In the warehouse work environment, although this particular walmart 
shoes worked better than any other shoes, it was not enough to meet 
those more varied requirements. I often ended up starting from a type of 
shoes that were very good in some respects but defective in other ways, 
and modified them myself to fit all my work requirements, including 
making cuts, removing small parts of the upper toe box (when width to 
height ratios were too large), modifying the tongue (especially the 
sloppy designs often seen in its edges inside the shoes), cutting down 
the top parts of the counter or the collar (when design neglected the 
abuse these edges could have for the skin around ankles and above), etc. 
  I had to do that because after experimenting with many cheap and 
expensive and super expensive shoes I had realized that such shoes to 
match my lifestyle didn't exist!

For casual use, sure, any piece of garbage, expensive or super expensive 
or dirt cheap, will do for my use of it. But for hours and hours of use 
every day there is none out there that would match perfectly with how I 
use it. This was true in extensive warehouse work environment.

But for walking, as I said, it is a simpler activity and my own 
modification (so far) has not been necessary.

This is of course true for someone my age (middle age and up). Young 
fellows adjust to almost any abuse their shoes render to their feet. 
Other than size or width almost nothing else matters to them. Look at 
the stupid design that boots for young soldiers have had.

By what I see sold in walmart or online for high top shoes these days, I 
have noticed that the stupid industry at last figured one thing out! For 
high top shoes the counter area takes a dip in height, something quite 
necessary for comfortable walking in any areas of activity! I had 
problems with the designs which kept the height of the collar and 
counter equal in high top shoes as long back as I remember, even from my 
childhood.


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