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Thread: Fitness Race-January 2013
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harmony hope
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Just wondering if there's plans afoot for a fitness race in Jan? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Thanks
Harmony Hope
<small>[ 11. February 2013, 06:52: Message buggered about with by: Ariston ]</small>
[ 13. February 2013, 15:37: Message edited by: Ariston ]
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Ariston
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If there is to be a race, someone's going to need to organize it . . . and I see a perfectly good volunteered at the top of this page.
Whadya say, hh? Are we going to have one in January or not?
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Jenn.
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I'm in if someone else can organise!
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Jenn.
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On second thoughts, I need the motivation to move so I'll give organisation a go if people want - no promises on how quick I'll be at posting scores, particularly in the second half of the month when term restarts...
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Smudgie
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My attempts to get fitter were foiled by my brother and by my own illness, so I definitely need a kick up the backside to get me going again. So I'm in.
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Yangtze
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I'm in. And huge thanks to Jenn for volunteering to organise.
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comet
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I'm in, and will do better on tallying my own results to try and make it a little bit easier.
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harmony hope
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Hi Jenn, thanks everso for stepping in, have sent you pm.
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Jack the Lass
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For the uninitiated, what's the deal with the fitness race? Distance, time, what activity counts, etc?
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Tea gnome
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This is the link to January 2012, and This should link to 2009 which has links to previous ones. Curiosity Killed did a great job of organising and the rules are in the first posts I think.
Runs on how much time you spend doing things which are reasonably active. Iirc, gardening counts, but playing a musical instrument doesn't, although I suppose that might be different if you played an entire ceilidh and danced while fiddling. If not sure we usually ask for opinions.
Hth,
Tg
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Jenn.
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Thanks Tea knome - my plan was to hunt those out this evening when I had proper computer access. Rules will be the same as Jan 2012 (i'll pop them up later).
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Scots lass
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I'm in! And I will try and finish this one... It'll be a handy measure of how well I'm getting back into exercise after a few weeks off.
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Jenn.
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Ok, the rules, copied straight from the Jan 2012 thread that tea knome linked to:
Those who want to take part please can you sign up here, and record the amount of time you have spent exercising from the 1st January onwards - daily / weekly / whatever is most convenient. The person who spent the most time exercising by the 31st January is the winner.
As before, the aim is to log your hours of fitness activity and watch them accumulate over the month. You can be a serious gym junkie or an occasional cyclist, the important thing is to take some time out of your month to spend being active.
The rules are simple (and almost identical to last time):
1. It has to be physical activity. It doesn't have to be overly strenuous as long as it's aerobic. After some discussion previously, house work and gardening counts, so long as it's aerobic and so serious welly is put into it, but music practice doesn't.
2. The race is based on time, rounded to the nearest minute. If you spend 5 minutes walking down the street to buy milk, it counts.
3. If you're paid to be active (eg. as a builder), you can't count time spent on your job; The rest of us need to have a chance! However, you can count active transport that gets you to work (eg. walking, running, cycling, unicycling...).
4. You can sign up whenever you like, but you can only count time spent after you sign up.
The race starts at midnight January 1 (local time) and finishes at midnight February 1 (local time).
I'll keep track of time and also of 'active days' (when you log activity)(because that's easy to do on my spreadsheet).
Have fun everyone ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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ArachnidinElmet
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I may regret this, but I've started working at home after spending years walking into work; my waistband is telling me I need scaring a little.
Yes please, put me on the list.
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Meg the Red
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Mee too, please.
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Tea gnome
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Just to confirm. I'm in. (And this time I will WIN!*) although I'm also about to cancel my gym membership, so it could be a bit mixed.
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*i feel the need to say this every race. I have never won. I think one year I was fifth.
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Starbug
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Me too, please.
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la vie en rouge
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After a thoroughly idle winter of doing sweet Fanny Adams, I need to get back to running. I'm not expecting to rack up a particularly impressive score but it might make me do something... Hopefully I won't get too thwarted by the weather.
I'm in (now where did I put my trainers?)
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Celtic Knotweed
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I'm in - as usual! Aiming for an average of 1.5 hours/day or better, which will mean I have to actually do something besides commuting. Doubt I'll be in the top 5, but you never know...
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Jack the Lass
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Thanks for the rules of the game - yes, I think I'm in this time! Back to w*rk on the 3rd, I have quite a hefty walk to and from the station so with that and renewing my gym membership I'll hopefully have a reasonably respectable tally to show for it at the end of the month. I'll try and keep my own tally too in case it gets a bit much for Jenn.
I wonder if I can get essay marking to count towards my time? Sadly I think they're more likely to result in blood and tears than sweat.
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Sir Kevin
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We walked up to the local mall yesterday: maybe I can start doing that a few days a week when I get off work early. We also have started a nearly carb-free diet and I am giving up beer and ale until I lose at least the half a stone I gained in December.
I'm in.
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Mamacita
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I'm in. My goal is to stick with it and finish the month.
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blackbeard
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I'm in too.
There's a touch of desperation here - I'm signed up for a half marathon in March and I need, oh how I need, to get a bit - a LOT - fitter before then.
Somewhere in the house are two large lumps of mud. I seem to remember that they are my trainers. They were white once. All the rain we have been having over the last 9 months or so has given us a lot of MUD; it gets everywhere.
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SusanDoris
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I was wondering whether there would be a January race! I'm in please, but if the dark, wet weather is as much inevidence as it was in December, I think my total time will be quite well down. At least today is dry and sunny, so that will mean a reasonably good start.
Many thanks toJen for taking on the organisation.
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Smudgie
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I am going to be sensible and aim for an average of half an hour a day. IN theory that should be easy to beat - in reality however.....
Let's face it, after three months of being poorly with chest infections and of having to spend more time at home preparing for interviews and looking after my brother rather than going to the gym, and after a Christmas in which there were rather too many cakes, biscuits and puddings needing dealing with (I hate waste more than waist!), even half an hour a day will be an improvement!
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Jenn.
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Started the new year as I mean to go on - 25 mins of a couch to 5k plan.
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Tea gnome
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Bahaha. I'm still on the sofa in my pyjamas! Well done Jenn. for kicking off on the right foot
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SusanDoris
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1 hr 30 min
Walked. Lovely day - blue sky and sunshine.
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Jenn.
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20 mins walking and I think I'm done. It was meant to be a lovely new year family walk, but my daughter declared she needed the loo so we went to a cafe instead. Good intentions count for something right?,
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Heavenly Anarchist
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60 minutes walking to and around the local nature reserve, Byron's Pool. I've taken off the time spent playing Pooh Sticks
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Scots lass
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Away for New Year, so had a 20 minute swim this morning (late morning...) and 1 hour 20 minutes walking along the cliff path. Scrambling on the rocks probably doesn't count towards the total but it was fun!
So for the first day I've already got 1 hour 40 minutes which is a good start!
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Starbug
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I had 32 minutes of constant activity, according to my pedometer. The challenge was to do 75 steps in 20 minutes, but I had to start again after a false start. Most of the activity was marching on the spot while peeling sprouts and potatoes!
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Smudgie
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The fitness race helped me decide on a non-sedentary activity for this afternoon, and although the walking was not vigorous, it was at least better than staying in bed which is how the day was heading! I think, when we subtract the standing-taking-photographs time and the indulging-in-coffee-and-*little voice-cake time, we walked for a good forty five minutes and then when we got home I thrashed the teenager on the Wii for at least fifteen minutes.
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Liberty
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I'm in. I work a gazillion hours so time is short, but this should help motivate me!
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North East Quine
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90 minute walk up and down a small but steep hill.
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Jack the Lass
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60 minutes today, walking to and from Stirling Castle (bits of it quite steep!).
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harmony hope
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Thanks so much Jenn, great to have you at the scoreboard!
Ariston, as jenn has kindly volunteered this time I'll see what I can do next time! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Yangtze
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1 hour 45 mins walking today. Not v strenuous but moving nonetheless.
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harmony hope
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Day 1: fab beach walk - 90 mins total.
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blackbeard
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Hi Jenn: thanks for taking this job on.
Today: 40 m runnish, with the speed of an arthritic slug; 20 m walking, so 1 h total for the day.
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Angel Wrestler
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Hooray!!! Thanks, Jenn!! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) this is no small task.
one question - my routine is taking longer since I've had a cough. I have to pause and cough. Should I count the time for the (slower) routine, or count what it usually takes me?
that said, today's swimming routine:
with cough - 1 hour 12 minutes
without cough - 63 minutes
(ready to over this cough!)
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Jenn.
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Personally, I'd count with cough. i'll do that for now unless there are any objections?
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Liberty
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30 mins aerobics, and 35 mins walk. So 1 hour 5 mins total for the day.
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comet
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20 minutes tapdance aka walk on very bad ice. it was meant to be longer but a combination of my knee being cranky and the risk of breaking my butt turned me around in a hurry.
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