The 10 Mile Mall Walk

If you can believe it, Mom and I finished our first 10 mile walk today entirely inside the mall in Topeka! Ugh! I headed over to her house this morning at 6 a.m. in the midst of a pretty intense thunderstorm. Since walking outside was clearly not an option, we headed over to the mall and started doing laps with the rest of the Saturday morning crowd. As you can imagine, there were very few people under 60! We had hoped that the rain would let up in time for us to take the end of our trip outside, but by the time it stopped raining we were a mile or so from being finished, so we ended up doing every last step inside! After a little shopping, we hit Olive Garden for the endless soup, salad and breadsticks! :)

While walking in a climate controlled building was pretty nice, walking on the hard tile flooring wasn't ideal for the knees and back. Even with the less than ideal walking surface though, we really only stopped for one short 15 minute break in the middle of our 10 miles. Once again, Mom finished with no problem!