This week marks my 13th week of training. For 13 weeks, I have been walking. Recording. Updating. Working. Trying to build something steady enough to carry me all the way to the Appalachian Trail in 2030. This week was different. It…
This week begins Week T-202. That means I am almost out of the T-200s. When I first started this training plan, the numbers felt almost theoretical. T-213 sounded far away from anything real. The Appalachian Trail was still years out. The…
Yesterday, I looked at the goals for this week. 13,000 steps per day. A sustained walk every day. A planned Saturday long walk of 11 miles. Then I looked at everything else. Work. Evening and weekend law work. Household responsibilities. Family…
One of the things I have learned early in this process is that a long-term training plan has to be structured, but it also has to be honest. When I first laid out the training roadmap for The Long Walk Ahead,…
I don’t want this to come across as bragging, but today deserves to be acknowledged. Today I walked 10.49 sustained miles. There was a time when I don’t think anyone—doctors, nurses, physical therapists, family, my spouse, or even me—would have believed…
We now have 5 walkers from 2 states. Texas: 3 walkersArizona: 2 walkers This started as part of my preparation for the Appalachian Trail in 2030, but it is becoming something bigger than that. Not everyone is training for the trail. Some are…
Harsha joined us from Arlington, Texas. He is moving toward better physical health, with a particular focus on strengthening his heart. He plans to do that through walking, running, and hiking. In his words: “Walk and run to better the…
Sometimes it looks like leaving the VA in Little Rock and deciding to walk about eight miles to the airport—in scrubs. I knew I could handle the distance. What I did not know was that the route included a long,…
Dale “Greybeard” Sanders completed the Appalachian Trail in 2017 at age 82, becoming the oldest person to do it. Then his friend, M.J. “Nimblewill Nomad” Eberhart, completed the trail at 83 and took the record. Greybeard did not resent him…
A comment appeared recently on The Long Walk Ahead Facebook page: “We are on the journey with you.” I have kept thinking about the word ‘we‘. When I created Walk With Me, I imagined participation as something visible. Someone would choose…
