OLLI
Tallwood
Walking
Group




     Thank you for your interest in the OLLI Tallwood Walking Group. Here are the details and logistics for the group.
    
 During OLLI Fall/Winter/Spring class sessions, our group meets before class, generally at 8:30 AM in the swimming pool parking lot next to OLLI. There are about 50 - 60 of us, although rarely, if ever, do we all walk each morning - usually between 6 - 12 people show up at a time. Some people show up almost every week; others join us only once in six months. We walk for approximately 45 minutes in the vicinity of OLLI and return to OLLI by 9:15 AM in order to have a few minutes for coffee, etc., before the start of 9:30 classes. We walk at a comfortable pace and we all talk about classes, theater, politics, travel, sports,

Photo by Julia Rachiele
Tallwood walkers Doris, Dave, Sherry and Ute. Photo by Julia Rachiele

current events, or whatever - in other words, it is at least as social as physical and we try to set our speed to match our overall abilities and comfort level.
     When OLLI is not in session, then we usually meet at different times (often later in the day) and/or days and often go further - that is, not just in the neighborhood of Roberts Road - and sometimes we walk longer than 45 minutes. Our longest walk so far has been around Burke Lake Park (5 miles). But we do continue to meet and walk weekly. (Sometimes we go out for coffee or lunch, too.) We have "done" Royal Lake, Accotink Park, Meadowlark Gardens, Occoquan Regional Park, "beautiful downtown" OldTown Fairfax, the W&OD trail, Sky Meadow State Park, and quite a few other locations.
    
 Our OLLI Summer session schedule is a little different. We will often walk on a day when classes are not in session - in the summer we prefer to walk in the cooler morning hours.
     Our only 'rule' is that we wait five minutes for latecomers and then we leave the pool parking lot. It is encouraged, although not required, to let
Doris Bloch or Sherry Hart know (via e-mail is fine) if you plan to join us - then we look for you. Sherry and Doris do decide if the weather is just too dreadful to walk - so far that hasn't happened very often at all. If so, then they send an e-mail to cancel. They also give out their cell phone numbers, by the way, for last minute cancellations from others.
 

Sherry Hart (harts66@hotmail.com) handles the weekly e-mail notifications for the group.
If you have any questions, please contact Sherry or Doris.




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