{"id":939,"date":"2005-06-18T14:07:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T22:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/06\/18\/walk-to-thrive\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:14","slug":"walk-to-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/06\/18\/walk-to-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk To Thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"\/mindfullife\/archives\/000428.html\">the benefits of walking<\/a> before, when I lived in Austin.  It&#8217;s taken me some time to become comfortable and confident since arriving in California.  Lately, though, I&#8217;ve returned to it with gusto; I walk daily, and it&#8217;s doing wonders for my health and outlook.  <\/p>\n<p>One reason is that I discovered a simple online journal that allows one to track routes, miles, and time.  It requires registration, but it&#8217;s a short process.  The site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywalks.com\/\">MyWalks.com<\/a>.  Since I began doing this May 22, I&#8217;ve logged 41.86 miles, most of it since June 1.  <\/p>\n<p>Another site I&#8217;ve found helpful is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking.about.com\">About.com&#8217;s Walking<\/a> page.  They have a number of resources; they also have a daily email walking program, in case one needs inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on my way to Austin tomorrow, where it is bloody hot right now; I will have to curtail the walking, keeping it to evening strolls.  My body isn&#8217;t accustomed to such heat any longer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about the benefits of walking before, when I lived in Austin. It&#8217;s taken me some time to become comfortable and confident since arriving in California. Lately, though, I&#8217;ve returned to it with gusto; I walk daily, and it&#8217;s doing wonders for my health and outlook. One reason is that I discovered a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}