It’s finally nice enough to get out and do a bit of
walking – although the wind is still chilly, the warmth of the sun makes it
nice. The snow is slow melting this year
but I found a circular track at one of the local golf courses that’s
perfect for winter walking, weather cooperating. It’s a two-km loop and three
times around in one hour gets your heartrate up there nicely and fills the bill
for daily exercise for people of my age bracket. Today I switched from my ankle
hiking boots with ankle length skinny jeans to walking shoes but there is so
much grit, sand and debris on the road from when they sand for the ice situations that
I got tiny pebbles in my shoes, not a good thing as my feet are quite susceptible
to the least irritation and blisters can quickly come up out of nowhere! Half
way round the first time this morning, I remembered seeing a hiker in Ireland
wearing things that I would call gaiters –
they were a lightweight canvas-type material, waterproof, with an
adjustable elastic at the top which she wore over her pantleg, extending down,
flaring out over her boot. She said they kept the debris out of her boots. I
spent the remaining walking time designing some knitted shoe toppers. I could
just knit my regular sock, with a bit longer cuff, go into circular, do half a
heel and cast off – this would give me the flare to cover the ankle part of my
shoe where the tiny stones were getting in.
Or, I could just switch to flare jeans that are a bit
longer…
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