Thinking about walking

A headline from today's press read something like "Walking for just 20 minutes a day will make you live longer". Well, leaving asisde that this is not really 'news' - walking is exercise and exercise is good for you so, yes, it will probably help you to live longer and this announcement about walking for 20 minutes is probably made at least once every couple of years (or once a month in the case of the Daily Express) - it made me recall a little something that I ran up (see what I did there?) a few years ago. I hope you can stand the thought of a poem for two consecutive blogs :)

I'm walking to work for the exercise,
So goodbye to the rush hour queues!
On with the trainers - may go the whole hog
and soon be in shorts contemplating a jog.

I'm walikg to work for the environment
Going green, we must all do our bit.
While I'm saving the planet, I'm having some fun
In a fortnight or so, well I might even run.

I'm walking to work since I'm British
And there's nowt we do better than fad.
For a fortnight it's fitness - say 'NO!' to our cars
And thinking of marathons instead of a Mars.

But reality strikes and it's raining
And it's early and cold - I feel crap!
I've been hunting lost trainers since quarter to eight
If I don't leave right now then I'm going to be late.

Now I'm driving to work 'cause I'm feeble
And fall apart when the going gets tough.
I really quite like sitting here in a queue
Because I'm a commuter and it's what we all do.
I'll use any excuse I can find
But I'm walking to work in my mind!