My wedding is in September and I've been trying to drop a few pounds by changing my diet(Cut out soda, not eating out as much) and walking. As most TIFU's this actually happened on Friday. My S.O. was at work and I had the day off so I thought it would be a great day to walk 3-5 miles. So I start walking, and I am surrounded by houses and people out and about so it makes for a more interesting walk. And after about 2 miles I come to 10th street so I turn and start walking down there.
I've never walked down 10th before but it seemed pretty interesting, I passed a couple schools but it was pretty void of any houses. As I walk further I come to farms, I live in a small town of about 35,000 outside a larger town of 128,000 in Iowa so farms were not unusual but not something I wanted to see on my walk.
Once I saw the first farm I knew I was in trouble, because I didn't recognize any street names and I pretty quickly admitted I was lost. This was 7 miles into the walk. When I walk I make sure my phone is fully charged because I have my bluetooth earphones in and my walking app uses GPS so it wears out battery quick. I text my S.O. that I'm lost and she's quick to point out that my phone has GPS and to use Google maps. I didn't want to do that and chance my walking app screwing up and not recording my walk because it was fighting with Google maps.
After a few minutes I realized that RunKeeper shows me where I'm at on a map. I use that to map out a way to get home and after 11.5 miles of walking I was finally home. My S.O. also pointed out that I could have called a cab. While I didn't have my wallet on me I'm sure they would have waited for me to get my card, I'm stubborn and don't give up too easily and for me calling a cab would have been like giving up.
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