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It happens every day. If I sit too long at the computer, I either start aching or nodding off.
Yesterday, a long day, I got up numerous times. Around noon, I took a walk from the Gazette-Times office to Starbucks, a round trip of six blocks. That helped. Later, I walked around the nice one-block grounds of the GT — a two-minute break and a good wake-up.
DH Editor Hasso Hering spoke to this issue at a staff meeting about a month ago. He works a long day and night and finds that afternoon bike rides make the second half of his day go a lot better. So he proposed periodic midday staff bike rides. It’s a good idea and I’m going
to take him up on it. It will force me to tune up my bike.
Hasso’s idea sparked another thought for group exercise. I knew I was going to write a cover story about the new Talking Water Gardens for the April edition of Oregon Outdoors. I hadn’t figured out when to go out there until that staff meeting. After hearing Hasso’s suggestion, I proposed a noontime staff walk at Talking Water Gardens, an engineered wetland in Millersburg.
About a week later, after our early spring snowfall, 11 of us took the walk. Mark Ylen got great photos, graphic designer Don Boucher brought his spotting scope and identified more than 20 species of birds, and Talking Water Gardens supervisor Tom TenPas from the city of Albany gave us a insightful tour. The story will be in Monday’s Oregon Outdoors.
As we head into what hopefully will be genuine spring and summer weather, I’m looking forward to more noontime staff exercise.
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