We’re planning to start walking more. We had been walking with a plan of participating in the Capital City Marathon a couple years ago. While training I developed a problem with plantar fasciitis in both feet. It ended up squashing our plans and eventually led to buying a car and lots of different shoes as I tried to get over the problem.
My feet slowly got better but the right foot was still a problem some of the time. I kept noticing how much better it felt without shoes, but I kept hearing the doctor saying I had to wear shoes all the time. Then one day I was looking at Masai Barefoot Technology shoes and realized something interesting. These $$$ shoes were designed to mimic walking barefoot. So why not just go barefoot? I joined the Barefoot Running group and my feet have never felt better. I posted about hiking barefoot previously. As I’ve aged I’ve put on weight and have gotten out of shape. Although I have been riding a bike more and walking a bit more I thought it might be good to work on getting in better shape.
Recently I’ve been reading 
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I want to work up to 10,000 steps per day at least. Maybe by next year we could be ready to walk the half-marathon. To help keep track we have new pedometers.
These sensitive pedometers track steps, aerobic steps, aerobic time, distance, and calories. I wrote a WordPress plugin to let us record our information and measure progress. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
