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  About the Beach Cities, Walkers and Talkers club

 

 

The “Beach Cities, Walkers and Talkers Club” began as an outreach of the Beach Cities Health District more than ten years ago and has since then developed into an independent entity with a life of its own, that caters to mature (50+) walkers (aka 'Chronologically experienced citizens').

 

Camaraderie is waiting at the Hermosa Pier and drives many of us to faithfully show up each Tuesday and Thursday at 8:00 AM sharp, as our dedicated timekeeper Barbara is a stickler for punctuality.

 

For most of us, our northern strand walk ends with a cup of coffee and pleasant talks at Gabriel’s Café Bonaparte located on the H.B. pier’s Plaza.  The walks vary between 2 and 5 miles depending on one’s abilities.

 

New people are welcome to join our group of dedicated members by showing up at the end of the Hermosa Beach pier on the designated days. During the year, the club organizes many activities that enrich our lives. For further information browse this site.

 

Compiled by Sue K.

 

Government fitness test for adults

The test involves three basic components: aerobic fitness, muscular strength and flexibility. The test is for people 18 and older who are in good health. It was inspired by scores of baby boomers who kept asking council members whether there was a fitness test available today that was similar to the ones they took as students.

The aerobic component of the tests consists of a one-mile walk or 1.5-mile run. The run is not recommended for those who don't run for at least 20 minutes, three times a week.

Push-ups and half sit-ups make up the strength test. The push-ups are done until failure. The sit-ups are done for one minute.

A stretching exercise called the "sit-and-reach" is used to measure flexibility.

The scores from all four of the fitness tests can be entered online. Other information, such as age, gender, height and weight are also part of the equation.

You won't get a presidential certificate, but the results will then show where you rank among people of the same age. For example, if someone scores in the 75th percentile for push-ups, that means 75 percent of the scores fall below your score.

Adult Fitness Challenge: http://www.adultfitnesstest.org/adultFitnesstestLanding.aspx

 

How far did I walk?

As you know, one of the group most common question we hear is " How far did I walk?"

Over the years, I have made quite a few measurements of our Tuesday and Thursday walks and then relied on my memory for recall.

Unfortunately, after a few weeks I consistently forget the numbers.

So, once and for all or until proven in error, here are the various distances that our Walking group walks:

1) From HB Pier to the MB Wall (End of HB) and back, you would have walked 2.3 miles

2) From HB Pier to MB Pier and back, you would have walked 3.65 miles

3) From HB Pier to the end of MB Pier and back, you would have walked 4 miles

4) From HB Pier to MB 27th Street and back you would have walked 5 miles

All measurements were made using MapSource software.

Regardless of which route we walk, I think that we can all be proud of ourselves of being a member of the Walkers Hall of fame!

Enjoy, Jacques

Guidelines about the posting of our Activities/Events:

Many of our members might have noticed that some of the Walking Club activities are posted on various places on our site and some are not posted at all. It might seems that there is not logic to this phenomenon but actually there are guidelines that govern these postings and here they are:

  1. All the members have to have been invited with the exception that the total amount of guests may be limited (no discrimination)
     

  2. This site/webmaster must have been asked by the organizer to send email invitations.  This will insure that all members have been invited. Organizers are encouraged to publicize their event in any matter and form that they desire. This rule is in addition to this!
     

  3. The event organizer(s) must request coverage to this site Webmaster. This will insure that a photographer and reporter will cover the event.

 

  1. The majority (or about) of the activity participants or the leader's must have been club members.
     

  2. The reporting of the event must be generated by the organizer(s) or participant's) and emailed to this site for posting.
     

  3. Guidelines for reporting an activity can be reached by Clicking Here.
     

 

Site Membership Information - Privacy Policy:

1.  The following privacy applies to this site only and does not apply to the Walking Club so called members, who can freely exchange any information that they are willing to share.

2.  The Beach Cities Walking Club site takes individual privacy very seriously. We are also aware of the threats to your security and privacy on the Internet. Please take a few moments to review this policy and let us know if you like to have it modified.

3.  The Walking Club respects our members' privacy. Any personal information that you provide to this site through membership is kept confidential and will not be sold, rented, traded, or distributed to any other company or individual, including other members.

4.  When you register for site membership, we collect your personal information (such as their name, phone number, mailing address and email address) for specific, limited purposes. This information enables us to better serve your needs, sending you updates on our activities and other programs we believe may be of interest to you and responding to your requests.

5.  We use contact information from our application form to add new members to our site membership list. The applicant's contact information is also used to contact the member's when necessary. When contacted, the members will only see their own address. They will not be able to see the address of any of the other members. This feature also applies to E-mails.

6.  When a club member (here called solicitor) request information about one or more of our so called members, we will contact the member's whose data are solicited and give them the address and/or phone number of the solicitor thus giving the member's the option to give or not to give the requested information to the solicitor.

7.  When necessary any member (here called solicitor) can contact other members by sending this site webmaster the information that the solicitor wants to convey. The site webmaster will then send a message to the club members with the needed content. Using this method no personal data is propagated except for the solicitor data. This method will only be allowed for email that are related to club activities. We suggest that individual that want to communicate none-club information write to the club members directly. This site will not provide help in propagating the members email addresses.

Disclaimers:  You are herewith informed that the so-called club "Beach Cities Walkers & Talkers Club"  or any other names the Club may have, has no legal entity or responsibilities and does not legally exist. The club does not have any controlling authorities and/or does not have any official members and/or leaders. The club and its so-called members/leaders exist only in the imagination of those involved. No liabilities or responsibilities exist for any of the participants called members or any other persons and/or any mentioned businesses or this site.

In summary: While you may enjoy the company of other people mentioned in these pages, you and only you are responsible for whatever happened to you.