Wintertime fitness

Now, for the second consecutive year, I am prevented from running for exercise ... last winter, it was due to a stress fracture, and this year because of my hamstring problems. I certainly am going to hope for better things in the winter of 2009 (and do everything in my power to help bring that about)! Meantime, I am still planning to resume running, slowly and easily, on my birthday (March 17), figuring that will be a great way to celebrate turning 51! And meantime, in order to stay in shape, I have returned to what I was doing a lot of in the first half of this decade ... walking. Most days now I am doing 6-10 miles, at a clip of about 15 minutes/mile.