Nordic Walking Guy
Blogging about Nordic walking and the Afoot lifestyle1) Walk with purpose! 2) Be consistent! 3) Nobody walks alone!
A history lesson
Exercise boosts brain healthFrom The Atlantic, an article about the change in how science views the relationship between exercise and brain health. 70-year-old Edgar Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, taking 105 days to complete the trip. During that...
Elements of walkable city designOne set of criteria for designing walkable cities:ConnectivityLinkage with other modesFine grained land use patternsSafetyQuality of pathPath context
What's with 30-day challenges?An article writer likes doing 30-day challenges. What she called "challenges" were things she didn't currently do. She thinks they work to change behavior or stretch her capacity because, among other things, they present a manageable...
Wordsworth on the trailSpend some time reading (slowly, mind you) William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798." This is what might hope to see because Nordic walking takes you...