February 9, 2022 The Walk and General Musing

Today, I walked to town. It’s only one mile. It’s much warmer running. I say running but the people traveling past me in cars or trucks or mostly snow machines don’t see me as running. They instead want to know if I’m injured. Or if I know the road goes nowhere. Or if I need a lift. I know they are trying to be kind, but how do they think their solicitousness makes me feel?

My walk was not a run today because I was wearing my boots. And taking a walk. And feeling cold. I took a look around town—two guys standing in front of the store—and there was nothing going on. I’m so glad to be missing nothing.

This walk thing can be a hard concept compared to the snow machine thing.

Here is an interesting fact and concept about the racers.

At night, you cannot get out of your bivy sack to use the restroom. You will risk lowering your core body temperature to a dangerous point. And holding your bladder can actually make you colder. What is the answer? A military invented chemical that converts urine liquid into a gel.

So what do they do with the gel? And wouldn’t that plug things up? It not, I can see many applications for this.