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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the final itinerary for the book tour showed up, I went through it on a line by line basis. I immediately saw that my 660-day streak of 10,000 steps was in imminent danger. I figured I could make the Arizona part of the tour work as far as steps were concerned, but once I hit the one-night stand part of the tour, there wasn\u2019t going to be any walking time available between my arrival times at hotels and pickup times for events.<\/p>\n
So I took action. I called the publicist and asked him to move all my airport pickup times half an hour earlier than they had been originally scheduled. That generally gave me an hour or so before boarding to get in some steps. And that\u2019s what I did\u2014walking with a fully loaded purse on one shoulder and a leather computer bag on the other.<\/p>\n
Did you know that concourses are generally good for a thousand steps? In Phoenix, where you can walk in one corridor among all three terminals, that\u2019s good for a lot more than a thousand. So that\u2019s where I did the walking on the tour\u2014in airports. The only time I almost came to grief was in Phoenix when someone hit me with his bag in the back of my knee. That one almost knocked me down.<\/p>\n
When I\u2019m walking, I always feel like I\u2019m six-feet tall and bullet proof, but I obviously don\u2019t look nearly as spry as I think, because any number of times concerned people asked if I required a wheel chair. I told them no, I was fine. In terms of the tortoise and the hare, I was definitely the tortoise, but I would get there eventually.<\/p>\n
It turns out walking in Arizona wasn\u2019t nearly as easy as I expected. It was HOT. Not that hot for the people who live there and endured this scorching summer, but for a weather wimp from Washington, I found myself scurrying from one patch of shade to another, even in what should have been the early morning.<\/p>\n
In Tucson, with an extra hour between Green Valley and the San Xavier event, I opted for walking in a Walgreens. The place was cool at high noon, and cool was what I needed. Traveling up and down every aisle was good for 500 steps.<\/p>\n
It was by far the neatest and least junky Walgreens I\u2019ve seen in years. Every package of potato chips or Cheetos was in its proper place. I did notice that their inventory of Pampers was on the light side. Their inventory of Depends type products was just the opposite.<\/p>\n
I also noticed one section marked \u201cSexual Health.\u201d I don\u2019t remember seeing one of those before. A woman several decades younger than I am spent the better part of half an hour parked in that section, reading the fine print on the back of every bottle and package. I couldn\u2019t help but wonder what her story was, but obviously I didn\u2019t ask.<\/p>\n
Happily, I came home with my walking streak still intact. It\u2019s currently at 680 days. On Sunday night of this week, I crossed the 23,000,000 mark. I wanted to take a screenshot to prove it, but for some reason, the phone stalled out as far as counting was concerned at 22,999,996. It took several trips around the kitchen island to get it counting again, and then, rather than hitting the right number is added in a few.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s the screenshot. My agency manager from back in my life insurance days, Gilbert F. Lawson, used to say, \u201cKnow the score, keep the score, report the score. The score will improve.\u201d So that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing right now\u2014reporting the score.
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