Impressing myself Part 2 (and more)

I finished the second mile at 6:08 and the third mile at 6:26. So it ended up taking me about 54.5 minutes to walk three miles. I continued walking until 6:32 to see how far I could walk in an hour at my normal walking pace. The answer is 3.31 miles. I was really surprised by these results because: 1) I thought my normal pace was almost exactly 3 MPH, and 2) I was carrying three liters of water and a lot of food. --> I'm only 23 miles from the Mussippy state line, on a road that goes straight through downtown Memphis (well before the state line), yet there are still no signs of Memphis's suburbs or outskirts. I can see two miles ahead of me, and there's nothing. I wouldn't normally care, but I wanted to get some cheap lunch a couple hours ago. Judging by the time, though, it looks likes that's not gonna happen today. I guess I just have to stay hungry until I fix some Hungry Jack spuds
in about 5 or 6 hours. Also, this road has a narrow shoulder and lots of asshole drivers. Sucks!

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Impressing myself

Yesterday afternoon when I reached the 1 mile marker on US 51 in Tipton County, I decided to walk a timed mile. When I opened my phone, it was 5:31, so I waited for it to change to 5:32 before walking. Also, my pedometer showed that I'd already walked 7.66 miles for the day. I expected it to take me at least 19:30 to walk the mile, so I set an alarm for 5:51. --> Not far into my mile, I stopped to pick up a nickel from the road. Later I picked up a penny. These two stops probably added 10 seconds to my time. I figured the stops would push me back to about 20 minutes, so when the Shelby County line came into view (Mile 0), I expected to hear the alarm, but no alarm. As I crossed the county line, still no alarm. I consulted the pedometer; it read '8.66,' as it should have. I looked at my phone to see the time. It was still 5:49. So I counted the seconds until 5:50. 40 seconds! That means
I walked the mile in 17:20. --> About half a mile later, I decided to time the next mile, too...

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