um Ashley um do you exercise regularly
yes i do i uh go on long walks whenever i can and uh
well when i when i can fit it into my schedule and the weather's right i like to walk uh oh three four miles a day
uh-huh well that's pretty good i unfortunately uh am not um exercising regularly at the time um
i
we've recently made a move i used to be at the university where there's facilities there and my wife and i regularly played um racquetball
uh-huh
but um since we've moved to Iowa now um we don't have as many facilities like that um
well that sort of same sort of thing happened to me i used to be a regular swimmer i i taught at a university and i you know could use the pool every day if i wanted and since moving away from the university environment i've uh
now it's kind of difficult to find a pool that's convenient and affordable to swim in
but uh what university were you at
i was at Brigham Young University
uh-huh
um actually i am working at a university right now i just graduated with my PhD at Brigham Young and i'm working at the University of Iowa however
we had all free benefits for faculty and staff and students at Brigham Young but um
oh it's we the benefits here as far as um using the physical facilities are not free here so and plus they're not as convenient we're we're further away so it's not as convenient for like my wife to come in you know for doing things together
did you say you're at the University of Iowa Iowa City huh
uh-huh right uh-huh
i went i visited visited there once quite a few years ago had a friend who was in the linguistics department there
oh
i'm in uh
at the National Center for Voice and Speech which is part of the um Department of Speech Pathology
uh-huh
um
well you would do you have contact with any of the uh people in linguistics
well uh
i just i haven't been here uh uh only for several months and uh i i'm sure that there must be some cooperation between the departments but uh i'm not aware of anything as yet
yeah
uh-huh
um
i
well if you ever run into uh to Cathy Reagan say hi to her for me i think she's still there
okay
okay usually when the temperatures are warmer um i live about twenty minutes from school so um
from the university so i often will walk in which i guess it's i'm not sure how far it is um actually it's twenty five minutes and it's probably about a mile i don't know long it's got to be maybe a
um-hum
well how briskly do you walk do you think how how fast do you walk do you think
what
oh i walk rather briskly but i don't i don't do it during these winter months it's just far too cold um
uh-huh
well a brisk walker can go maybe what four or five miles an hour so if it takes you a third of an hour to get in you're probably going oh i would say at least a mile and a half probably
so
yeah so anyway i could get a little bit of exercise that way um
yeah the winter of course even here in uh in northern Texas we do get a little cold weather but most of the winter i can go walking just about anytime i want to
uh-huh
this winter though it's rained so much that uh there've been times where see my uh favorite
uh area to walk is a a greenbelt they have right through Plano here and uh
you know it's it surrounds a little stream over much much of its extent you can walk for miles there and never cross a street you you go under the streets
uh-huh
but uh when the uh when the water is too high uh you'd get washed away i mean they have signs up there warning people to stay away so
oh
we've had that uh a number of times recently not to mention the mud of course
oh yeah
well you can get you can do the other thing i do is uh i have a little exercise bike that uh wasn't too expensive i got a cheap one but you can really work up a sweat on it
but
yeah if i were to begin to begin exercise now i think it'd be something that i could do um
indoors something that's convenient
um
you know
it's like an exercise bike or something like that although i haven't purchased one purchased one yet sometimes i do i have this little trampoline
yeah
small type trampoline that i do indoor jogging on sometimes for exercise but i haven't really started been doing anything regular for the last several months since we've since we've moved to to Iowa
yeah i i really prefer outdoor exercise i'm afraid that my favorite indoor exercise is eating apple pie a la mode and that doesn't help very much
well outdoor exercise is uh more convenient however
