AROUND AND AROUND

I've finally started walking again.  As a birthday present to myself I went to Bowling Green's Kummer/Little Recreation Center and paid my $2.00 for a yearly walking pass.  The cost was to pay for the card, not really for the privilege of walking.   I had been looking at this place on the internet for over a year and just never took the initiative to check it out.  It's not in the best part of town, but I don't go when it's dark out.  I get there about 3:15 and right now I'm already up to 2 miles.  The 2 miles took me just under 33 minutes today.  I'm still dealing with walking shoes that are rubbing my heal or old shoes that don't really have enough support.  I'm sure that eventually I'll get that problem worked out.  I didn't get to walk one day this week because the electricity was out and they had to close.  Next week they'll be closed on Thursday and Friday, but I'll probably be too busy to walk then anyway.  They have a nice college student working at the front desk.  It's nice to know that someone is on watch while I'm walking. 

I couldn't ask for a nicer indoor track to walk on.  It's only 3 lanes wide, but so far I've only had to share it once with someone else and he only passed me once.     
If you look at the picture above and down the left side of the building you can see the half moon windows that are along the walking track.  There's lots of light and you can see what the weather is doing outside.  The downside is that you have go around 12 times to walk a mile.  At first I was having trouble keeping track of the laps, but I discovered that the stopwatch on my phone has a lap counter.  I just touch it each time I complete a lap and it tells me how many laps I've completed and how long it took to walk each lap.

 There is a nice room upstairs with a vending machine, a flat panel LCD TV, tables and chairs and water fountains.  There's also a meeting room and restrooms.
The main floor has 2 basketball courts with 3 rows of bleacher seating.    You can see the rail around the walking track in this picture.   For those that have trouble with stairs, there is an elevator to get to the second level.  They use this center for the Special Olympics and I'm sure the elevator comes in handy for them.
Below are a few pictures that I took of the track.  I had planned on taking more pictures when I finished my walk that day, but a group came in and were in the vending area and I didn't think it was a good idea to take pictures of strangers to post on my blog.
This picture shows the big half moon windows.  They're really nice.

Looking down on one of the basketball courts.

The goal right now is nothing more than to get myself moving.  After sitting at a desk all day and then coming home and sitting most of the evening I felt a great need to get some exercise.  I'm hoping to, at some point, start walking 4 miles several times a week.   When I get to the 4 miles, that means I'll have to go around the track 48 times (assuming that I'm in the middle lane).  Therefore, I'll be going around and around and around and around!!!  We'll see how it goes!!