The Rockville Walking Group

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Definition of Strider:

To walk with long steps, especially in a vigorous way

A Walking Group for all ages to get some exercise and be outdoors. Anyone who is interested to join us in walking at a brisk pace weekday evenings after 6pm or on weekends.

The group is focussed on exercising and is intended for fast paced walkers who can walk at least 3 miles per hour. This group is ideal for those who want to walk vigorously in the open rather than on treadmills at their homes or in a Gym.

If you are looking for a social pace this may not be the group for you. While social interaction and allied interests like enjoying nature, photography, walking of pets is encouraged it is necessarily subservient to the primary objective of walking at a fast clip.

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A short walk is so difficult,

when no one walks with you.

But a long journey is just like few steps

when you walk with someone

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home.

- Edward Abbey

To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

- Hilaire Belloc , The Footpath Way (introduction)

And some Humour on Walking & Exercise:

My grandpa started walking

five miles a day when he was 60.

Now he's 97 years old

and we don't know where he is.

Walking can add minutes to your life.

This enables you at 85 years old

to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.



   I like long walks,

especially when they are taken

by people who annoy me.



    I have to walk early in the morning,

before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

I joined a health club last year,

spent about 400 bucks.

Haven't lost a pound.

Apparently you have to go there.



Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',

I wash my mouth out with chocolate.



The advantage of exercising every day

is so when you die, they'll say,

'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'



If you are going to try cross-country skiing,

start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise

the last few years,......

just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older,

because there's a lot more information in our heads.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

AND

Every time I start thinking too much

about how I look,

I just find a Happy Hour

and by the time I leave,

I look just fine.



You could run this over to your friends

But just e-mail it to them

Two hikers on a trail came around the bend to find an enormous brown bear about 75 yards up the trail. The bear spies them and begins running toward them at a full gallop. One hiker drops his backpack, sits down, throws off his boots, and starts lacing up a pair of running shoes. The other hiker says: " What are you doing? You will never outrun that bear!". The first hiker replies: " I don't have to outrun the bear..."
Michael Johnson, the Olympic gold medal runner, was on his way to a club with some friends. At the door, the bouncer turned to him and said: " Sorry, mate, you can't come in here — no denim." Michael was quite annoyed at this and retorted: " Don't you know who I am? I'm Michael Johnson." " Then it won't take you long to run home and change, will it?" replied the bouncer.
Last year I entered the New York City Marathon. The race started and immediately I was the last of the runners. It was embarrassing. The guy who was in front of me, second to last, was making fun of me. He said, " Hey buddy, how does it feel to be last?" I replied: " Do you want to know?" and I dropped out.
We work out too much. We waste time. A friend of mine runs marathons. He always talks about this "runner's high." But he has to go 26 miles for it. That's why I smoke and drink. I get the same feeling from a flight of stairs.
A runner asks his wife: " What do you love most about me? My tremendous athletic ability or my superior intellect?" " What I love most about you," responded the man's wife, " is your enormous sense of humor."
Deciding to take up jogging, the man was astounded by the wide selection of jogging shoes available at the local sports shoe store. While trying on a basic pair of jogging shoe, he noticed a minor feature and asked the clerk: " What is this little pocket thing here on the side for?" And the clerk: " Oh, that's to carry spare change so you can call your wife to come pick you up when you've jogged too far."
A school teacher asked a student, " John, will you please conjugate the verb 'to go' for the class?" The kid began, " I go... um... you go... ehmm... he goes..." " How about a little faster?" asks the teacher. And the kid, " Sure! I run, you run, she runs..."
One man's hobby was running, he spent all his weekends on the park trails, paying no attention to weather. One Sunday, early in the morning, he went to the park as usual. It was still dark, cold and raining, so he decided to return back to his house. He came in, went to his bedroom , undressed and laid near his wife. " What terrible weather today honey," he said to her. " Yes," she replied " but my idiot husband still went running!"
A man had been driving all night and by morning was still far from his destination. He decided to stop at the next city he came to and park somewhere quiet so he could get an hour or two of sleep. As luck would have it, the quiet place he chose happened to be on one of the city's major jogging routes. No sooner had he settled back to snooze when there came a knocking on his window . He looked out and saw a jogger running in place. " Yes?" " Excuse me, sir," the jogger said, " do you have the time?" The man looked at the car clock and answered, " 8:15." The jogger said thanks and left. The man settled back again, and was just dozing off when there was another knock on the window and another jogger. " Excuse me, sir, do you have the time?" " 8:25!" The jogger said thanks and left. Now the man could see other joggers passing by and he knew it was only a matter of time before another one disturbed him. To avoid the problem, he got out a pen and paper and put a sign in his window saying " I do not know the time!" Once again he settled back to sleep. He was just dozing off when there was another knock on the window. " Sir, sir? It's 8:45!"
Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at the end of the alley and worked their way to the other end. At the last house a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas meter. Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger coworker to a foot race down the alley back to the truck to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger one. As they came running up to the truck, they realized the lady from that last house was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her what was wrong. Gasping for breath, she replied " When I see two gas men running as hard as you two were, I figured I'd better run too!"
A blonde goes out for a run. She comes to a river and cannot see a bridge anywhere nearby. She spots another blonde on the opposite bank. " Yoohoo doll!" she shouts, " How can I get to the other side?" The second blonde looks up the river then down the river then shouts back, " You're already on the other side!"
Running shoes in these days are more and more technologically advanced. I went in this store and they told me this new model of running shoes can even predict the weather! I asked how and the salesperson told me: " Leave your shoes outside the window for a little while: if they are wet it's raining, if they are dry it's sunny, if you cannot see them it's foggy."
You know it is time to resume running when...
- You try to do a few pushups and discover that certain body parts refuse to leave the floor .
- Your children look through your wedding album and want to know who mom's first husband was.
- You get winded just saying the words "10 kilometer run".
- You come to the conclusion that, if God really wanted you to touch your toes each morning, He would have put them somewhere around your knees.
- You analyze your body honestly and decide what you should develop first is your sense of humor.
- You step on a talking scale and it says, "Come back when you are alone".

This guy is walking with his friend, who happens to be a psychologist. He says to this friend, "I'm a walking economy." The friend asks, "How so?" "My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and both of these together are putting me into a deep depression!"

Question & Answer

Q. How do crazy runners go through the forest?

A. They take the psycho path.