January 2023

It's cold out there

At the end of January, I find myself close to...Selma Alabama. Which is where I said I was on Sunday. This is because I was actually a couple of days short of Selma on Sunday, but I knew I wanted to write about Selma, and next week I will be well past it. It was in fact today, February 1, that I walked through downtown Selma and across the Alabama River on the famous Edmund Pettis Bridge, headed south.

I "only" walked 355,000 steps in January - 50,000 fewer than in December - still better than my goal of 341,000. There are a couple of reasons I walked a bit less last month:

• January is a cold month, and I decided that Arlo and I did not need to go on long walks outside when it was close to 30 degrees or colder, so I walked around my living room sometimes rather than venturing out. When I walk indoors, I quit when I hit 10,000 steps. When I walk around the neighborhood, I keep walking until I get home, so it's different.
• I started playing bridge at a different bridge club, one that I drive to, so I stopped walking the extra 7,500 steps or so to get to the lodge twice a week. The plan though is to start going to Jubilee Bridge Club again once a week starting next week, so that should increase my steps.

I made it to 10,000 steps all but two days in January. My current streak is 17 days.

I am less than 100 miles into Alabama, with over 180 to go, so I should still be in the state at the end of February, closing in on Georgia.