Thread by @AlexandraErin

Today I walked downtown from home for the first time since I've lived here. I've taken my kick scooter before, which is faster and less energy intensive, but depends on fair weather and dry surfaces.

I used to walk several miles a day for work, when I last worked outside the house, but I got out of that habit and out of shape. I'm also just not as young as I was in my twenties, go figure.

But having the scooter helped me sort of transition back to being more active, and I kind of suspected after finishing my carpentry project that my stamina was sufficient for a walk of a bit under two miles.

So I tried it.

And, uh, it went pretty well. My watch was apparently tracking my progress and judged me to have a steady walking pace of 3.36 miles per hour. And that was with a few stops to rebalance my load and re-arrange my cords.

As I spend more time outside the house, I'll probably use my scooter to save spoons when the weather is nice and I'm going somewhere that I won't have to lug it around a lot, but it's nice to know I've unlocked walking as an option.

One big advantage of walking over the scooter? Walking, I feel comfortable having a movie or an ASMR playlist or something playing on my Vufine. If I were riding the scooter, obviously I'd take the Vufine off.

Anyway.

Going to have some exciting news about what I'm doing downtown, in the coming weeks. Just want to firm up some more details before I make a big deal out of it, but now that I know I can get myself downtown as needed without summoning a rideshare, things are happening.