walking clinic

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But y'all knows that this is my gym too. Just not in Toronto.)

I'm on a email list for walkers because of my involvement in Walk Your Butt Off. So I got this invitation in the mail today, and it looked like a great opportunity. (I had gotten an earlier email to reply if interested for this list. Of course I said yes.)

The only bad thing is I can't invite the others. It's only open to the people she emailed. Unless there are spaces left. That leaves me no alternative but to show them, or attempt to show them, what I learned.

Hi everyone,

Hope you're enjoying the beautiful fall weather--perfect for walking!

Since you expressed an interest in attending a Speed Walking Clinic, I want to give you first dibs on signing up. Here are the details...

For this clinic, you'll get the opportunity to be coached by one of my mentors Lee Scott from Toronto.

Lee is a certified personal trainer who's been coaching walkers for more than 10 years. She developed the WoW Power Walking® program and the Simple Secrets for a Great Walking Workout DVD-CD as a way to engage people in a challenging and sustainable lifelong activity. She has coached thousands of walkers for fitness and marathons. She has power walked more than 70 distance events including a 50k ultramarathon and 22 full marathons including winning the 2008 Cleveland Marathon walk division and achieving a personal best of 4:51:51 in 2011 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon—that's about an 11-minute per mile pace (5.5 mph)!

Okay, I'm exhausted reading that paragraph. 5.5 miles an hour for a walker! I'll be doing a naked happy dance when  reach 4mph!

Joelle Junior, a certified group fitness instructor and former Prevention magazine colleague, will also be assisting. Joelle was instrumental in making the Prevention marathon walking program that I started a success. She's also walked several marathons and half marathons and has gotten progressively faster.

So you will have three of us coaching you to provide a lot of individual attention.

We will videotape you so you can see how you're walking and ways to improve.

We will work on proper technique and form.

We will do drills to help you get faster.

We will give you exercises to do after you leave that will help you to continue to improve.

And we'll have fun!

We are limiting the group to 20 people so we can give you more personal attention.

The clinic will be Sun Nov 4 from 1-5 pm.  ...

So I replied yes. The price isn't horrible.  And it really is the only time I'll get to work with Scott, so when opportunity knocks, I should answer.

I'm just thinking I should be 30 years younger....