Step out with Peter, Onlineshoes.com’s Executive Family Man, as he walks to better health. 

So, here’s my mid week update! You can probably tell by the fact that this blog is late that I don’t have stellar news. The good news is that I have been running on the weekends with my daughter in the running stroller, etc. And I have gotten out for a couple of walks. The bad news is that the literal meaning of “couple” is two. So I have not been reaching my goal of walking three times a week.

May I moan? The dark Seattle weather can be somewhat of a challenge to motivation and it’s been raining a ton here. But today I got out in my The North Face Denali jacket with rain protection and headed out—wind in face but feet dry in my walking shoes. I was happy to get out to the fresh air for a bit. I was able to pick up a healthy lunch on the walk as well and bring it back in time.

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Step out with Peter, Onlineshoes.com’s Executive Family Man, as he walks to better health.

Hi there, fellow walkers. I made a resolution to walk three times a week during the work week (mostly during lunch hours). I managed to walk twice last week before being engulfed by the holidays and even held a meeting while walking through Seattle that was not only an excellent use of time, but just as productive as a meeting sitting on one’s hindquarters. Why not turn your meetings into a “walking summit”?

But while I’ve been getting out, there have been a few bumps in the road. I recently had a meeting in downtown Seattle just south of Pike Place Market and found that I needed to get back in a hurry but wasn’t wearing the right shoes. Believe it or not, Mr. Shoeman ran out of the office wearing totally wrong shoes. They were great casual shoes that would work in a pinch for a short walk, but they were totally against purpose for a long, fast walk. What I do is more like Urban Hiking. At points, I was actually running in order to get back to another session in the office and before I really realized it, I had done some nasty damage to my left foot. It felt like I had bruised my heel and throbbed like I had taken a hammer to my instep.
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