My park's loop, if I do the widest version of it (which means skimming through a parking lot), is about 930 meters—not quite a kilometer. A lot depends on how I measure it using the ruler tool on Naver Map (desktop version), but 0.93 km will do for now. I timed my walk for a lap yesterday and got about 13 minutes, which is slower than I used to be. 0.93 km in 13 minutes is about 4.29 kph. Not horrible, but definitely slow by the standards of normal Koreans (who are an impatient, hasty-footed people) or healthy Americans. In miles per hour, my speed translates to 2.67 mph. The average human walking speed is somewhere around 3 to 3.5 mph (4.8-5.6 kph). Koreans, even the very old ones, are toward the faster end of that range. That's one reason why I'm glad I walk alone: everyone would be annoyed at having to wait up for me, and I don't like feeling as if I'm on someone else's schedule—not during my "down" time.
In other news: I tried a new exercise on my GPT-generated list: a jump squat (or squat jump). Long story short: never again. (Here's why they're not always the best exercise.) My feet are easily hurt by impact because I'm heavy, and I'm currently limping around my place. It's probably better for me to avoid plyometrics altogether (remember jump rope?). I had hoped to take a cool-but-rainy stroll outside this evening, but instead, I guess I have a date with my hydraulic stepper. Meanwhile, on my ten-week calendar, I've replaced the jump squat with easier bodyweight squats. I still can't do those at a full range of motion; instead, I bounce my ass off my bed with every rep. I'll eventually wean myself off the furniture as I progress in reps, and I might have to practice deeper squats in my building's staircase, where I can hold on to a railing. For the moment, though, the current easy workout for my thighs—2 sets, 16 reps each—is better than nothing. This will ideally become 3 sets, then 4 sets. There's hope.
I generally try to avoid high-impact stuff. Maybe if I were younger and had better joints, I might get some benefit out of them, but if that time ever existed, it has long since passed.
ReplyDeleteI recall you being pretty spry back around 2012 or so, back when we and HJ did the Skyline Drive route and hiked way downhill to Dark Hollow Falls, then way back up. Short hike, but there were rocks for nimble people to hop on, and you hopped on them. I was too worried about algae and slippage, what with my bulk.
DeleteOh, I'm still pretty good when it comes to prancing around trails and stuff, although I probably don't hop quite as much as I used to (that was thirteen years ago--if that was in fact 2012, I was still in my thirties!). I entirely avoid high-impact exercise like jogging, though.
DeleteIt was indeed 2012: see here. The photos, stored on Photobucket, are no longer showing. If I have them on my current drive, I'll see if I can repopulate the blog post with them. Pretty much everything before 2016 got wiped out when I (1) quit Photobucket (which I'd started to call Photofuckit for its shoddy service) and (2) lost my first laptop, from which I wasn't able to transfer all of my data (and like the genius I am, I didn't back everything up on separate storage).
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