The Walking Lake Pepin committee invites walkers who want to increase their calorie burn and add a little challenge to their walking routine to a Nordic Walking Clinic to be held July 19^th at 6:30  to 8:00 pm at Ohuta Park.

Nordic Walking is ‘fitness walking using especially designed poles".  Adding  poles, which is similar to using poles with cross country skiing, can increase the calories burned during walking, facilitate strength increase in the upper body and improve  posture and balance while walking.

Rhea Kontos, a trainer for the Great Lake Nordic Walking group will be in Lake City to train participants in the correct technique to maximize benefits from Nordic Walking.  She will bring poles for all particpants to use during the clinic and will have poles for sale if anyone is interested in obtaining poles.

All community members are invited to participate and need  to register for the clinic at Treats and Treasure  on Washington Streeet prior to the event. Sign up deadline is July 17th.  There is a $5.00 fee which must be paid at the time of registration.  The minimun number of particpants to run the class is 8 with a maximum of 15 particpants.  If there is enough interest an earlier session at 4:30 pm will be offered.