Day 2

Since today was Sunday I wanted to do something I was unlikely to do on a weekday. I had a few errands to run in Soho and figured walking home over the Brooklyn Bridge would definitely be 30 minutes if not more.

I went from Houston and Bowery (Whole Foods) to Greene and Spring (Space NK) to Canal and something (Pearl Paint). From there I headed to the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge on foot. I mention "on foot" because I had actually planned to take the R train from Canal Street to City Hall but 1.) the entrance was closed and 2.) I realized that I didn't have my subway pass and wasn't about to buy one when I had a perfectly good one at home. So I headed in the general direction on foot; following the signs. Anyway, this was pretty solid deposit in the Fitness Bank.

The Fitness Bank is my mental calculation of things I did during the day that counted towards my health and fitness (credits) vs. those that took away from it (debits). The extra walk before my walk helped balance out (in my mind anyway) the pumpkin doughnut I ate from Dean & Deluca while I was running around.

The Brooklyn Bridge is roughly one mile (1.13) and makes for a nice enough walk but should you do it be mindful of the following:

• on the weekend it's packed with tourists (duh)
  

• tourists aren't in a hurry

• there is construction going on at certain points so the great view I was hoping to enjoy was obstructed for quite sometime by sheet metal; giving it all the charm of a storage unit.

Once home, I calculated my total trek and was pretty happy to find that my total distance traveled was 3.2 miles. According to Google maps, this took 1 hour 4 minutes but that excludes shopping time at each place of course. I should mention that I took the stairs to the 4th floor while in Pearl Paint. That counts for something right? Fitness Bank!