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philip99a
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3 x 10 min sessions on the exercise bike at lowest resistance while my knee sorts itself out (advice of the physio)

Total to date: 7hrs 55min

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106 mins walking and 45mins on the stepper. 151 mins total.
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And a final 1 hour 10 minutes from my cinema trip, giving me a grand total (I think) of 35 hours 40 minutes.

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Friday: 75 mins, all walking
Saturday: 50 mins, stepping and light weights session at home

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Sat Jan 31: 40 minutes walking

Final total: 17 hrs 50 mins

Thank you Curiosity killed... for keeping track of us, and everyone for you inspiring posts, at every level of activity.

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38 hours 5 mins


Friday 30th: another day of nothing, oh dear (but I did get my tax return done)

Saturday 21st: 1 hour walk/run (and the run parts are getting longer each time) plus 1 hour 15 mins walking.

So a total of 40 hours 20 mins I think. Not quite as good as my first Race time of 42 hours but better than my times in the subsequent ones.

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My final efforts from yesterday (Jan 31):

15 minutes walking to and from the local shop
35 minutes walking to the cinema in the evening.

I think this makes my final total 40 hours 52 minutes

All the best,

Rachel.

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3 1/2 hours walking in Manchester yesterday.

Auntie Doris x

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Friday (cont):
10 mins walk home from uni
Saturday:
120 mins out of 4 and a half hours traipsing around town and home carrying goodies

Total for this post:
130 minutes or 2 hours and 10 minutes

Total for the month (I think!):
1742 minutes or 29 hours and 2 minutes

Can't remember how I did in the other races but that's an average of 56-and-a-bit minutes a day for the whole month and 67 minutes a day for the days I was actually participating. One of these days I'll get to a fitness race thread before the month in question starts.

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As predicted I did diddley-squat on Saturday, so my final total is unaltered. I now have to deal with a smug Knotweed who has done more than me - you try that when the cricket season starts, sunshine!

Anyway, I started February by walking round an old airfield... beat that!

AG

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I'm not sure if anyone else is going to add times. The results as they stand now are:

  1. PaulM 51h 42m average of 100m/day or 1h 40m
  2. blackbeard 51h 15m average of 99 minutes exercising per day or 1h 39 mins; compared with 41h35m in Jan08 and 30h 50m in Jul 08;
  3. Freelance Monotheist 46h 15m 90m/day compared with 52h0m in Nov07, 53h0m in Jan08, 47h30m in Jul08;
  4. Susan Doris 45h 55m average of 89 min/day; compared to 54h 25m in Jul08;
  5. Curiosity Killed ... 42h 81m/day compared with 49h40m in Nov07, 36h30m in Jan08 and 29h 0m in Jul08;
  6. the famous rachel 40h 52m average of 79m/day;
  7. Yangtze 40h 20m 78 min/day; compared with 42h 25m in Nov07, 27h55m in Jan08 and 28h25m in Jul08;
  8. Wiff Waff 36h 35m average of 71 minutes per day
  9. Stevie Boy Wonder 35h 40m average of 69 minutes per day;
  10. Ultracrepidarian 34h 45m average of 67m/day; compared with 46h45m in Jan08 and 57h20m in Jul08;
  11. Auntie Doris 34h 40m, av 67min a day, compared with 16h 35m in Nov07, 20h40m in Jan08, 25h 20m in Jul08;
  12. Celtic Knotweed 32h 45m av 63m/day, compared with 23h 42m in Nov07 and 42h 0m in Jul08;
  13. Sandemaniac 31h 50m 62m/day, compared with 62h 10m in Jul08;
  14. Smudgie 29h 45m average 58 min/day, compared with 16h05m in Jan08, 5h30m in Jul08;
  15. lily pad 29h 25m 57m/day
  16. To The Pain 29h 2m average 56m/day compared with 27h35m in Nov07 and 32h40m in Jul08
  17. Joan of Quark 25h 11m av 49 mins
  18. Chorister 25h 10m av 49m, compared with 10h45m in Nov07, 14h in Jan08;
  19. Cottontail 20h 25m 40 min/day;
  20. Scots lass 19h 50m 38 min/day
  21. Autenrieth Road 17h 50m, av 35min/day, compared with 30h10m in Jan08, 4h 05m in Jul08;
  22. pimple 17h 40m av of 34 mins/day
  23. NorthEast Quine 14h 40m av of 28mins/day;
  24. Surfing Madness 14h 25m
  25. Meg the Red 11h 25m compared with 24h30m in Jan08, but Meg stopped posting part way through.
  26. philip99a 7h 50m
  27. Geneviève 5h 9m
  28. Angus McDangley 5h compared with 2h40m in Jan08, 8h40m in Jul08;
  29. chickle girl 5h
  30. Sir Kevin 4h 45m compared with 5h30m in Jan08 and 6h35m in Jul08;
  31. daisydaisy 4h 30m
  32. comet 3h 25m compared with 34h10m in Jan08 and 58h45m in Jul08;
  33. Nunzia 50m
  34. Bacchus - nothing posted
  35. Boogie - nothing posted
  36. Huia - nothing posted
  37. rosamundi - nothing posted
  38. Spike - nothing posted
  39. the pilgrim - not posted

That's a total of 817h 31m posted, averaging out at 26h 22m per day between the 40 shipmates taking part.

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And the race is over (unless anyone else still hasn't posted).....thanks CK for all your hard work in keeping score.

I'm pleased to be back in the top ten - hurrah. But looking down the list there's some people who have smashed their previous times by miles - Smudgie and Auntie Doris I'm looking at you, and Chorister as well. Woo hoo.

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Thanks CK for all your work and congrats to everyone.
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And my thanks, too, to CK. The race was the perfect antidote to a bout of intense laziness occasioned by SPOD (Seasonal Pissed Off Disorder).

Went for a lovely long walk in the snow today.
Comet may be amused to learn that soft and sunny South-East England has been brought to a halt by temperatures around 0 degrees (Centigrade, or for the fussy, celsius) and six inches of snow.

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Thanks CK!
Definitely the kick in the rear I needed to start exercising again!
Next time I will be first-I think I've been 2nd or 3rd in every race so far!

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Curiosity Killed

The Race was great. thank you very much for all the work you have done recording times; it was good to see previous times too.
Reading the posts about all the different activities has also been very interesting.
The Race certainly provides that bit of extra motivation to step out for an extra walk.

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sorry not been near the internet sooner. My times for the last few days. 28th - 35 mins swimming, 29th - 40 mins walking, 30th - 30mins dance etc on the Wii (this made me ache the most of anything i did the whole month!!) 31st - 65 min walking. giving me a total for the last few days of 2 hours 50, added to my total so far (14 hours 25 min) gives me a total of 17 hours 15 min. [Yipee]

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That changes you up one place, Surfing Madness.

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Thanks CK!

Looking at your final list, I am strangely surprised just how much difference an extra few minutes each day makes over the course of a month. I know that should be obvious, but this has really highlighted for me the benefits of those little bits of exercise - like getting off the bus one stop early - which I might not naturally bother with. (Actually, I rarely get the bus... but hopefully you know what I mean!).

Rachel.

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Woo-hoo! I wasn't bottom, despite a crocked knee!

Great fun, and thanks CKilled.

Lovely 30 min walk in the dark in the snow (but warm) this evening to see a friend then half hour back. Saw a bunch of (in fact seven) students building a giant snowman at 11pm in the local park! It was about 8ft high and still being built. Looked a bit like the Venus of Willendorf!

10mins on the exercise bike (minimum resistance) before bed now. So this thread has done good, made me think that small amounts of exercise each day are normal, easy and way better in terms of getting and staying fit than going to the gym once or twice a week.

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Are we going into this, the next month? Wait until I get my bicycle next weekend. I have to stay in one place at work, but I walked less than ten minutes back and forth to my garage. I even had a rent-a-cop fetch me a Pepsi because I was a convention vehicle dispatcher and could not leave the area.

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I didn't think we were continuing this. I was hoping it could be left open for a few days to allow for people who couldn't get to a computer over the weekend to post any additional times, as Surfing Madness has. When we set this up both last year and this it was intended as a fun and competitive way of boosting our exercise levels and encouraging us to get up and going, not a permanent prop.

The revised listing, with Surfing Madness's final times are:

  1. PaulM 51h 42m average of 100m/day or 1h 40m
  2. blackbeard 51h 15m average of 99 minutes exercising per day or 1h 39 mins; compared with 41h35m in Jan08 and 30h 50m in Jul 08;
  3. Freelance Monotheist 46h 15m 90m/day compared with 52h0m in Nov07, 53h0m in Jan08, 47h30m in Jul08;
  4. Susan Doris 45h 55m average of 89 min/day; compared to 54h 25m in Jul08;
  5. Curiosity Killed ... 42h 81m/day compared with 49h40m in Nov07, 36h30m in Jan08 and 29h 0m in Jul08;
  6. the famous rachel 40h 52m average of 79m/day;
  7. Yangtze 40h 20m 78 min/day; compared with 42h 25m in Nov07, 27h55m in Jan08 and 28h25m in Jul08;
  8. Wiff Waff 36h 35m average of 71 minutes per day
  9. Stevie Boy Wonder 35h 40m average of 69 minutes per day;
  10. Ultracrepidarian 34h 45m average of 67m/day; compared with 46h45m in Jan08 and 57h20m in Jul08;
  11. Auntie Doris 34h 40m, av 67min a day, compared with 16h 35m in Nov07, 20h40m in Jan08, 25h 20m in Jul08;
  12. Celtic Knotweed 32h 45m av 63m/day, compared with 23h 42m in Nov07 and 42h 0m in Jul08;
  13. Sandemaniac 31h 50m 62m/day, compared with 62h 10m in Jul08;
  14. Smudgie 29h 45m average 58 min/day, compared with 16h05m in Jan08, 5h30m in Jul08;
  15. lily pad 29h 25m 57m/day
  16. To The Pain 29h 2m average 56m/day compared with 27h35m in Nov07 and 32h40m in Jul08
  17. Joan of Quark 25h 11m av 49 mins
  18. Chorister 25h 10m av 49m, compared with 10h45m in Nov07, 14h in Jan08;
  19. Cottontail 20h 25m 40 min/day;
  20. Scots lass 19h 50m 38 min/day
  21. Autenrieth Road 17h 50m, av 35min/day, compared with 30h10m in Jan08, 4h 05m in Jul08;
  22. pimple 17h 40m av of 34 mins/day
  23. Surfing Madness 17h 20m average of 34 mins/day
  24. NorthEast Quine 14h 40m av of 28mins/day;
  25. Meg the Red 11h 25m compared with 24h30m in Jan08, but Meg stopped posting part way through.
  26. philip99a 7h 50m
  27. Geneviève 5h 9m
  28. Angus McDangley 5h compared with 2h40m in Jan08, 8h40m in Jul08;
  29. chickle girl 5h
  30. Sir Kevin 4h 45m compared with 5h30m in Jan08 and 6h35m in Jul08;
  31. daisydaisy 4h 30m
  32. comet 3h 25m compared with 34h10m in Jan08 and 58h45m in Jul08;
  33. Nunzia 50m
  34. Bacchus - nothing posted
  35. Boogie - nothing posted
  36. Huia - nothing posted
  37. rosamundi - nothing posted
  38. Spike - nothing posted
  39. the pilgrim - not posted

That's a total of 820h 26m posted, averaging out at 26h 27m per day between the 42 shipmates who signed up at the beginning - actually only 33 were active.

I would agree with Yangtze, that it's very impressive how many people are improving their times, and getting regular exercise with this boost. I got back into regular yoga with the accountability, which was good - now watch me drift again!

There is a fitness thread in All Saints for people who want longer term support for exericising

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Thanks CK, you're a star! [Overused]

Sir Kevin, I think it was agreed with the hosts after the first or second race that twice a year was quite enough for this kind of thread - so I think you'll have to wait for July to impress us all with your cycling times!

Personally I'm pretty chuffed to be in the top half of the table. Getting a few more minutes out of my dancing nights would be nice but I've been trying to take the load off the other class teachers while we've been in exam time. Coming in between my scores for the other two races means I'm not being lazy, at least! July could be interesting for me this year as I'll be spending the last week in the Netherlands performing at a folk festival - could be all kinds of crazy dancing going on.

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Well I for one intend to keep walking (it's certainly very pretty in the snow). But unfortunately, the January race has come to an end. As CK says, further posts may be made on the thread in All Saints. Watch out for a further race in the summer when the weather - for some of us at least - should be more clement.

Thanks to CK for all your hard work in organising this season's race. [Cool]

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