[speaker001:] uh several years ago my very best friend moved to back to Grand Island Nebraska and we had ridden bicycles and it was bothering my knees that spring and we have lots of wind in Indiana and I thought oh shoot I'll just walk to town and I guess that probably started me on a career because I walk a lot in fact it's a part of my life every day I walk at least two miles uh as a side effect I noticed that I was firming up so I thought well gosh maybe if I diet you know this might be work out real well so I ended up losing about thirty five pounds that spring and summer and I had not thought of myself as a fat person and people would say to me gosh I didn't you know
[speaker002:] well that's great
[speaker001:] you're really skinny where'd this weight go well evidently I had some weight that I could afford to lose because I'm certainly not skinny now but I guess everything just shook into place so walking uh is very much a part of my life and since my husband's retirement he has also started walking with me and I guess I'd have to say it's a part of both of our lives and we just recommend it to anyone who'll listen to us
[speaker002:] oh I don't blame you walking is uh you know it's interesting because I think we went through a a phase there where it was jogging everybody should jog you should get out you should jog and then I started hearing about well I'm not able to jog because I'm I have asthma and um
[speaker001:] well yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh but I did like to walk and my neighbor and I get out we'd walk and walk and uh unfortunately we haven't done it well I've been in class until it's like seven thirty at night and she having is having a flare up of arthritis and we haven't done it for in about a month
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] now and oh gosh do I notice a difference
[speaker001:] um-hum well I was at the point where if I hadn't gotten my walk in I was a real grouch that day
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh a friend gave me this Prevention walking magazine a year ago at Christmas time and they recommend that you only walk five times a week that you do not walk every day but for me the days that I don't I'm not much fun to be around
[speaker002:] oh neat right  well you know now walking relieves a lot of tension and it's a good way to work off vent frustration and things like this I I can't I think
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] uh uh it depends on how far you walk how many days a week
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know if you if you're walking ten miles you know seven days a week maybe that uh has some effect but uh I think if you're not walking how many just out of curiosity how many miles do you usually walk
[speaker001:] at least two
[speaker002:] uh-huh well you see now that's what I do and um but that that's just about enough and uh uh I mean not that I wouldn't like to walk more but uh um I've
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] I am a widow so uh and I have a handicapped son so I have to really set my priorities of what you know but this is one thing that I do enjoy very much doing
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh so but you know I have tried aerobics and I have trouble with that uh
[speaker001:] ah I jig when they jog
[speaker002:] yeah I know I I can't
[speaker001:] I just can't keep and uh the jogging was never for me because my knees are not I just don't think they could stand that so
[speaker002:] no right well I I have trouble right well I have trouble with one too in fact sometimes if I even just twist wrong my kneecap will pop off so you know um walking seems to be the one and it it really seems to be
[speaker001:] um-hum um
[speaker002:] the most beneficial all the way around it gets your circulation going good it uh uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um it seems to have so many other benefits you know besides just the exercise
[speaker001:] um uh we're golfers also uh have you done that
[speaker002:] well uh no my when my husband was living he tried to get he loved to golf he was the avid golfer I used to go with him but only to uh uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] be caddy because um I have a very severe perceptual problem and uh I tried it a few time but uh I can't get you you have to make it down to the hole
[speaker001:] um yes
[speaker002:] in in six or seven times you know and when it get more than that and uh so I just
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it went out for the walk with him and enjoyed you know uh pushing the cart or pulling it or whatever you know but that is that's great my stepfather is seventy four and he goes golfing every day
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum I think that's the beauty of the game that we it's it's a sport that we can participate in as we sink into the sunset so to speak and of course here in Indiana the weather limits us
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] quite a bit our golf season will start and then stop due to weather and then start we had a
[speaker002:] right sure
[speaker001:] last weekend it was just absolutely beautiful and this weekend it's cold and rainy so so we're pretty limited and I guess maybe that might be the one reason that we would be forced into going
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] uh south for part of the winter
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh our children live here and our home will always be here but
[speaker002:] right I know what you mean
[speaker001:] for better weather we might consider that next winter I'm not
[speaker002:] well you know it's interesting what they've been what they have what has really caught on here is mall walking
[speaker001:] yeah oh yes yes yes yes
[speaker002:] now that has been something I think is really neat the mall actually opens an hour and a half earlier than the stores
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and it so that people can come in in the winter time and walk
[speaker001:] and it's so interesting because we made an extended drive as far west as San Diego which I guess is as far west as you can go and down into Texas and then through Colorado on the way home
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and we went to the malls to walk a lot and that's a brotherhood out there those people are you know gosh if Sophie wasn't here today let's go find her and they're really they know who's supposed to be there and what time they're supposed to come and when they're through walking they stopped for coffee and it's it's really neat it's
[speaker002:] that is neat you know I like that
[speaker001:] yeah it's really neat I and I even as an outsider passing through town you know after three laps around the exterior of this mall they pretty well know you so it's it's a fun thing to do
[speaker002:] um-hum that's right yes yes I think so
[speaker001:] well I I must get back to work nice chatting with you
[speaker002:] okay it was nice chatting with you bye-bye
[speaker001:] bye-bye