I started out on my daily walk slightly earlier than normal. The wind was whipping around my head, stinging the skin on my face. The temperature felt cold, around 4°C, but with the wind, it felt much colder—somewhere between -1°C and -6°C due to strong gusts. Winds from the north-west at about 16–21 mph brought the “feels like” temperature down significantly.
  The ice-hardened snow from yesterday had been mostly washed away by some earlier light showers of rain. I met a regular dog-walker I have seen before, walking along the road with his pug.
  I continued through Foxglove Lane and around the outskirts of the recreation ground. The surface of the playing field grass was quite muddy after the recent melted snow. A large herring gull flew over searching for food, gently flapping its wings and gliding along in the wind. I walked around the cemetery pathways, where a wood pigeon rapidly flew over the hedge into the allotment site next door.
   I left the cemetery and walked along the cemetery road to the main road, past the leisure centre. I met a man walking a black Labrador along Foxglove Lane as I completed my daily active walk.

Today I walked 2.3 miles in 47 minutes. Google Fit awarded me 28 heart points.

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