
Strut your stuff!

inspiring walkers one step at a time


“Gait speed is the time one takes to walk a specified distance on level surfaces over a short distance. This is not a measure of endurance.” -Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
Continue reading “Walking pace and aging”

…days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints. Hurrying means doing several things at once, and quickly: this; then that; and then something else. When you hurry, time is filled to bursting, like a badly-arranged drawer in which you have stuffed different things without any attempt at order.
― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

What mirrored sun came?
Bright green sprite with angel’s wings-
Katydid touch down. -k

