I started walking again

Walking is one of my favorite pastimes and an all round excercise - a complete fitness regimen. I was a regular walker for two-three years. I cultivated walking as my main form of physical excercise since almost eight now.

Walking is indeed a great excercise. I used to go to office after walking. It was mainly inspired by my aunty, uncle and grandfather. I was the last one to go for walking in my aunty's house. It started with half an hour walking. My uncle, aunty and grandfather would go for walking before dawn. I used to go, in the beginning, from 6.15 to 6.45 am, then come home take bath, worship, have breakfast and leave home by around 8.15 taking lunch box. This was in 2001 when I was working for a magazine aimed at those appearing for civil services exams and students (It's another thing I used to read this magazine Dikschoochi when I was a student).

When I joined a daily newspaper office, I continued it with diet too for sometime when I found my weight was increasing. This was on 2002. Mention must be made of an article I wrote for Jeevanadi health mangazine in 2003 after reaping the benefits of walking. Subsequently it was, to my surprise, published in a book on walking. The later years saw me walking for about 40 minutes, jogging (2004 thanks to Olympics sportspersons) and then came a period of full stop. Three to four years no walk. The Mini Park was good for walk and there used to be rush of walkers even at 8.

I got married, started my own family then I started walking again. Juggling with shifts, it continued and was synonymous with 'Bel Belagge Belagere', Ravi Belegere's Good Morning Programme on FM Rainbow (2006 end-2007 beginning). It was fruitful. I changed the job, it was a general shift job but I could not walk. Here and there, some efforts were made in early 2008 for a week early in the morning from 5.50 to 6.30 but no. The park was at some distance say some 10 minutes from my house.

I changed my place of location in September 2009 and started again walking which I thought I would be committed for life, at least 10 minutes, if not for 30 mins (That's the minimum doctors suggest) but no. The park is just a 5 minutes walk, almost on the backside of my house I should say. After some 10 days, I fell ill and stopped. Then no, then yes. This has been an up and down journey all along in the last eight years. But I am certain that walking had helped me a lot as my favorite fitness regimen for over 2 years and will certainly help me now and in the years to come.