Boring Views…..but No Wind Chill

Today is Valentine's Day. And frankly it's one of the coldest days we've had so far this winter. The sun is out, but the wind is just awful. I went out the back garage door this morning to walk the dog and the wind almost knocked me off my feet. Fenway had never moved so fast. I don't even want to guess what the wind chill might be.

I came back in and changed all my plans for the day. I was going to run over to Target and the grocery store and then stop at the YMCA to use a treadmill and do my stretching. A few minutes out in the wind convinced me I didn't even want to drive in this and needed a plan B.

So….down to our condo building's heated garage. I paced it off the other day and did some calculating. If I walk a circle around the inside parking garage 16 times that means I've gone a mile. So round and round I went. The view is so boring, but every time I got next to the garage door end I could hear the wind howling outside so I just ignored the setting and kept on walking.

Keeping track of how many times I'd gone around became a bit of a problem. So each time I passed our poor dirty car I made a light "slash mark" in the dirt just below the back window. Five, ten, fifteen…..the one last round and I was done. I wiped the car a little bit clean - but we plan to take her to the car wash in the next two days.

I'll have to figure out another way to keep track. Pencil on the cement wall maybe???