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Re: My Daily Walk (Dec 17, 2021) :-)

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Dec 17, 2021:



It is still fucking Summer. But it's cloudy, the kind that may have 
occasional short-period rain there somewhere in this area; thank god!.. 
Will have to take the umbrella with me. That means one hand gets pretty 
useless.

Hands and their movements are part of the process of walking of course. 
They make it easier and more efficient. When one is tied down by a 
jacket when it's too hot or a half bottle full of water when your pants' 
pockets are too tight and your shirt's got just one pocket with the 
phone inside, then if you walk a long enough distance you will feel the 
fucking difference that it makes. It can get so bothering that you'd 
want to throw away your nice jacket just to free that hand. If you don't 
think so you haven't walked far enough to reach that state of mind and 
body :)

Jackets for me have been the source of that nuisance every time 
temperature is low. Problem originates from the fact that at my age for 
some reason it takes a full 35 minutes of walk for my body to get to the 
steady state. It used to be just 15 minutes when I was young. Back then 
I'd have to tolerate the cold no more than 15 minutes before what I had 
on would match my surrounding and the heat the body produced. But 35 
minutes of it is just too long and stressful, so I've had to wear a 
jacket for the first 35 minutes, then carry the fucking thing in my hand 
for hours after that.

Very rarely, if I'm lucky, ambient temperature also declines within half 
hour and I won't have to take off my jacket. Or I happen to be stepping 
into shady areas in a sunny day, which is noticeably cooler. But that's 
no cause for comfort in general.

In Summers the situation with heat poses a similar problem. Sweating 
kicks in faster than body's adjustment of the rate fuel burn. I don't 
have to suffer from the heat for 35 minutes for the sweating to start. 
And beyond that, if it is still too hot (which is almost always the 
case) body cannot do anything about it either. Sweating goes a long way 
but without other helping factors like winds or scarcity of moisture in 
air even at the steady state it becomes somewhat stressful. But I still 
diligently do the walking because after mapping the shirt with salt so 
heavily that you can feel it back at home when you fold the shirt (it 
almost makes a cracking sound!), you know that all that salt is now 
residing outside of your body, not inside.

And you'd feel it too. You feel healthier, more willing to do stuff, 
more wanting to read incredibly informative books from those with equal 
or better Analytical Compartments Of Brain (ACOB) than what you're 
endowed with. You will actually feel that _youth_ in you that was once 
the totality of what you were and now you only access on these specific 
  occasions.

But winter is different. There's not that much sweating, so walks have 
to be longer to give you same results, and I do walk longer 
automatically in winters. Even the regulars I've noticed do that. I spot 
them at longer distances from where I'm vaguely assuming they start 
their walks from. They start from different parts of the area of course. 
I see them walking in both directions at very different locations. I 
know that the Chink, for instance, begins his walk somewhere around 
where I usually make a U turn and return. The Beaner begins somewhere 
closer than that. Two of the incredibly tall Cro-Magnon Humans (CH) old 
farts begin from an area not that far from my house.

I think these tall CH regulars (three of them) are past basketball 
players whose heydays were many generations back. And I think it is the 
spirit of such sports that have kept them doing these long walks every 
day. Other CH I see along the tracks, the younger ones, are all idiots 
who either are riding bicycles or are running, and then disappear for 
weeks before doing it again. Idiots indeed. They do that as often and 
for similar reasons as going to the movies.

There's a lake smack inside Dallas ("White Rock Lake") with tracks and 
all sorts of other features around it for picnic and boating and 
fishing, and playing your dogs and stuff that little kids would like, 
etc. Even a spot for bikers, you know, Hell's Angels crap. For my entire 
university years, the better part of a decade, I walked once around it 
on Saturdays. Most of the time alone, but occasionally some friend or 
classmate accompanying me . No more than a couple of times with girls. 
The track around the lake was almost exactly 10 miles and on various 
weekends could take from 2.5 hours to 3.5 hours for me to walk depending 
on what condition I was in. I saw a couple of such old fart CH guys 
there as well in those years. Either every Saturday, or every day 
perhaps, they were doing the walk around the lake; otherwise I wouldn't 
be able to see them that often. And none of the two disappeared during 
that span of almost 10 years. Without such walks, I bet my boots that 
both would have died within a year or two at most after my first time 
seeing them.

I didn't do those walks for exercise (I played plenty tennis and 
swimming those days plus my pilates every day). I did it to condition 
myself for another week of intense school activity, and it worked pretty 
well for that purpose. On the rare occasions that something prevented me 
from doing it, I could feel its absence the week following it. It was 
noticeable.

I remember one very rainy Sunday evening, totally pooped with school 
work and tutoring responsibilities, I decided to go do that walk around 
the lake that late in the day! I had missed it the Saturday before. I 
drove there, opened my umbrella and started walking. Quickly the dark 
came and I walked the rest of the way in darkness and rain except for 
occasional light posts that were placed every time you'd pass in front 
of a mansion. In one of those relatively lighted spots I saw an old man 
with his umbrella doing the same as I but coming from the opposite 
direction. On coming closer and seeing me to believe it, he said loud 
and in much surprise: "Oh, you must not be a Cowboys fan :-)) ..." Hahah 
:) I think he probably was taking a stroll away from such madness about 
  "Super Bowl" that was being displayed on TV in that same evening, 
inside one of the close-by mansions. And I think it was the one that 
Cowboys had won.

When I returned home I checked that. It was the Super Bowl night and he 
was so correct. I didn't even know it and had and have never been a fan. 
It might have been the one Cowboys played and won too but I've forgotten 
it now. But he couldn't believe his eyes until he came quite close.

Hehe :)

Got to go walking now :)

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