Walking through winter?

This month has started beautifully! Cool mornings and warm afternoons are my idea of spring. Yet it is still winter - even the groundhog declares that we shall have six more weeks of winter. I wonder why we put so much celebration around an animal that predicts what will be whether the animal sees its shadow or not. Think about it; spring solstice will occur six weeks after February 2 regardless of what the groundhog sees early in the morning. And, I will keep walking.
I may not walk every morning like I did again this week, but I will keep walking because it keeps me healthier and seems to give me more energy than if I do not walk. While it is still dark early in the morning, I go to the gym to walk and do other exercise. Usually I go with my daughter-in-law because we both realize that aerobic exercise (like walking) will help us lose weight faster. My wife has been good to wake us at 5 each morning, otherwise I doubt that I would be motivated enough to get around early enough to get my walking completed every day. This week I spent 20 minutes on the treadmill and 20 minutes on the stationary recumbent bicycle. Then, I add some weight lifting to help build a few muscles. On Thursday and Friday I started doing "intervals" on the treadmill. That means that I walk "normal" (about 2.2 mph) for about three minutes and then faster for a couple of minutes. I alternate that routine for 20 minutes. The plan is to increase the duration to 40 minutes daily and increase the faster time to four or six minutes with only a minute of the "normal" speed. This is a plan I used several years ago to get ready for the Toad Suck 5K. It worked well then, so it should work well now. We will put it into better practice next week. Please keep encouraging me and pray that I stay healthy.
What about you - would you be interested in walking the Toad Suck 5K in Conway this year? We could be a team, or something!