Power Walk!: My Step by Step Journey to Competitions Across America

＂Power walking, also known as fitness or speed walking, is gaining popularity as an aging population looks for workout options that are good for their bodies and for their wallets. This book includes expert tips and techniques for starting or expanding a power walking practice. Power walking practice is presented through the author’s goal to complete a half marathon in each of the United States as she approaches 60 years old. The journey, told with wit and wisdom, includes encounters with sketchy porta-potties and terrifying mini-planes, confessions of dubious road-trip food choices and tales of finish lines reached through sheer determination. Part travelogue, part power walking guidebook, this engaging text will entertain and enlighten readers who are looking to start a fitness program or change up their workout routine.＂--

Patricia Vicary has power walked countless races from 5K to full marathon throughout the United States and Canada. A public address announcer and retired college academic advisor, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.