I signed up for the Mile A Day challenge. The goal is to walk outside for one mile for fifty days. It is, I believe, an international program with participants from the United States and Canada.
One mile a day - that should be easy enough. I was placed on a team with about 40 other participants. On the app I discovered that there was a "leaderboard," and that some participants were walking two, three, four and more miles each day! Being very competive, I decided I needed to step it up and began walking at least three miles, or more, even doing seven miles in one day, just to increase my standings on that leaderboard. (I never knew I could walk seven miles in a day!)
A few days ago I decided to walk on a nearby dead end road. I had never before walked or driven to the end of that road.There never was any reason to. To my surprise, at the end of the road was public access to a nature trail. I never knew it was there, and it is just one mile from where I live!
If it were not for the Mile a Day Challenge, I may never have discovered that this trail was here.
It's a rather lengthy, winding trail. I did not take it to the end because I did not know where it was leading. However, I emailed one of my walking friends about it. I hope to meet her there before long so that both of us can enjoy walking this trail together.
(Oh, and the last I checked, I was #1 on the leaderboard for our team! Challenge accepted and met! 😎 )
