Mother’s Day edition of the Starbucks Carrot Method is complete. ☀️🥵☕🐈
Today’s walk featured:
Super busy brunch place
Starbucks Mother’s Day insanity with sticky little kids with cakepops
church-service
quiet streets
Hummingbird and missing little yellow bird reports
the eucalyptus tree checkpoint
asphalt radiating heat like a cast-iron skillet
palm trees that looked emotionally exhausted
Spotify aggressively spinning the Wheel of Musical Whiplash:
•Electric Light Orchestra
•Zombie
•House of the Rising Sun
•Tragedy – Bee Gees
•I Won’t Back Down – Pearl Jam
a Wendy’s detour because Chick-fil-A honors Sundays
wrestling a slippery iced cup through the Arizona heat
and finally returning home to immediate cat-based harassment and earring theft
Walk Receipts
Final totals:
2.88 miles
6,549 steps
72 active zone minutes
approximately 47 gallons of sweat
morale fluctuating between “desert lizard survival mode” and “still counts”
The funniest part is younger me would probably look at today’s pace and think:
“Wow. You’re slow.”
Meanwhile current me is out here doing long-distance neighborhood survival walks in near-summer Arizona while carrying coffee, navigating restroom logistics, listening to emotional support classic rock, and getting tackled by cats afterward.
That still counts.
Honestly, maybe it counts more.
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Starbucks Carrot Method – North Phoenix Walking Series