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Thread: July 2012 Fitness Race
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Liberty
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30 minutes of aerobics, 90 minutes of walking.
Total of 120 minutes for today.
Running total 1,010 minutes.
We've off on holiday on Friday for almost 2 weeks so maybe I'll exercise less, or maybe my Imaginary Friend will drag me on long hikes.
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Liberty
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quote: Originally posted by Liberty: 30 minutes of aerobics, 90 minutes of walking.
Total of 120 minutes for today.
Running total 1,010 minutes.
Went for an unexpected, but rather pleasant, 60 minute walk after dinner out with friends, so my actual total for July 11 is 180 minutes. Tota; 1,070 minutes.
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comet
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good day! 40 minute bike ride to work (drove home as my kids brought me the car) followed by a 1 hour and 45 minute hike with my daughter for her birthday. it was wonderful. and good for the ol' tude.
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Jane R
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Total for yesterday: 40 minutes high-speed walking with heavy rucksack and suitcase
Running total: 15 hours 52 minutes
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To The Pain
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Wednesday, July 11th: (cont) 20 mins walking home from work 60 mins walking dog
Thursday, July 12th (so far) 35 mins walking dog 20 mins walking to work
Total to add: 135 minutes Total so far: 1225 minutes or 50 hours and 25 minutes
Rather strangely I ought to have my total from the January 2011 race, but I seem to have overwritten it with my August 2011 times. Ho Hum.
Tonight I have to go and teach 175 guides some ceilidh dances. This will involve demonstrating each dance so I'll eke out a few minutes, but mostly I suspect I will be standing around directing traffic. Goodness knows when the dog will get her walk this evening. Perhaps I shall take her on the trampmoline again (which mostly involves her running circuits around the garden then joining in for a bounce every so often) so she has at least moved before we get back late and are faced with a furry whirlwind wanting out.
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la vie en rouge
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The mojo returneth . I seem to have successfully fought off that cold (zinc supplements) and I have sproingy new running shoes.
1 hour 45 minutes walking yesterday (commute, lunch and evening meeting) and 1 hour run to work this morning.
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Jenn.
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2 hours walking so far today, and i forgot something so I'll be going back to the shops shortly...
Running total 17hrs 50 mins (1070 mins)
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Ultracrepidarian
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11 July
45 minutes cycling from work to climbing to pub to home.
About 1 hour worth of exercise at the climbing wall.
12 July
15 minutes cycle to work.
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Jenn.
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A further 100 minutes walking to get the forgotten bits gives me a running total of 19hrs 30 mins (i think!)
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SusanDoris
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1 hr 20 min Tap plus walk to and part home. I would like to have added more walking time this afternoon, but ... well, unsurprisingly, it's raining again!
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Rosa Winkel
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Finally, here's my totals for July so far:
1st: 1 hour of walking in Wrocław and Berlin, largely carrying luggage
2nd: 25 minutes of carrying luggage in Berlin and Göttingen and a 35 minute walk in the evening in Asche. 1 hour in total.
3rd: 10 minutes of a walk in the morning, and an hour of jogging and walking in the evening. 1 hour and 10 minutes in total.
4rd: 45 minutes of volleyball followed by a 20 minute run. 1 hour and 5 minutes in total.
5th: 1 hour and 20 minutes of volleyball.
6th: A 45 minute walk.
7th: 1 hour and 30 minutes of volleyball.
8th: 30 of walking, largely with luggage, including in Dresden.
9th: 50 minutes of carrying luggage in Dresden and Wrocław
10th: 1 hour of walking
11th: 15 minutes of bodyrocking and 40 minutes of walking. 55 minutes in total.
12th: 45 minutes of walking and 15 minutes of bodyrocking. 1 hour in total.
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Tea gnome
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Hour and ten minutes today, variously cycling and walking about on errands and running up and downstairs with the vacuum cleaner ( we live in an upright rather than a flat) Tg
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Scots lass
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Tuesday: 20 minutes of walking Wednesday: 30 minutes of walking Thursday: 50 minutes of walking + 60 minutes of kickboxing (next week I need to do more of that!)
So that's 2 hours 40 minutes for this post. I need to get a bit more in I think!
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Ariston
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Yesterday: 1 hour of luggage lugging to the bus station, through the airport, off the airport, etc.
Now to hope I don't fall horribly behind now that I'm in a "pedestrian=hood ornament" city. [ 12. July 2012, 20:31: Message edited by: AristonAstuanax ]
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Curiosity killed ...
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90 minutes heavy duty cleaning, scrubbing down the kitchen walls with sugar soap as a forerunner to decorating them. I did get outside briefly, but it started raining before I got my boots on to go outside properly
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Angel Wrestler
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Well done, all!
I had a lazy week last week, but here's this week so far:
Walking (work, errands) - 35 minutes Swimming - 64 minutes Weights - 25 minutes
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Angel Wrestler
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oops - missed edit window for one more errand I forgot
10 minutes walking.
(with the times y'all are posting, I need every 10 minutes I can get! )
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Liberty
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120 minutes on July 12th.
Total 1190 minutes.
Off on my hollibobs tomorrow! ) [ 13. July 2012, 04:38: Message edited by: Liberty ]
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To The Pain
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Thursday, July 12th: (cont) 20 mins walking home from work 45 mins walking/marching/dancing/waving arms around in a midgey field during 1.5 hours ceilidh dancing at guide camp 40 mins walking dog
Friday, July 13th (so far) 20 mins walking to work - flatmate started work later than me this morning so she took the dog after I left.
Total to add: 125 minutes Total so far: 1350 minutes or 22 hours and 30 minutes
Oooops! Please ignore the 5 for 2 substitution typo from yesterday. Getting to 50 hours this early in the game would be impressive indeed!
Well, ceilidh dancing with the guides was interesting. 'There's a marquee' they said. And there was, but how they expected that many girls to dance in it was beyond me. So we set up outside and turned the generator off every time we needed to give instructions then had multiple people relaying them once the generator and the music had been started up. They seemed to enjoy themselves.
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Jenn.
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so far today, 30 mins of waking bringing total to 20hrs!
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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25 min
To station and home and from museum to station. There was one of the 'Touch Tours' this morning(for a group of blind and partially-sighted with guides) in the Sea City Museum in Southampton. Newly re-designed building and a superb exhibition.
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Jenn.
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5 mins relentless challenge, 35 mins walk/ run. I will get fit!
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Jane R
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catching up on backlog:
Yesterday (12 July): 40 minutes high-speed walking plus 10 minutes stair-climbing
Today: 1 hour 50 minutes high-speed walking
Running total: 18 hours 32 minutes (I think)
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blackbeard
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Yesterday (12 July) mainly boat related but the only bit that might count would be 10 m total hauling boats up slipways. (They are called slipways due to algal growth with an apparently negative coefficient of friction, leaving the unwary embarrassed, bruised and very wet.)
Today, Friday 13th, about an hour walking plus 35 m runnish.
So total for two days is 1 h 45 m.
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Angel Wrestler
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Holy cow! Y'all are awesome.
and I can't count teaching advanced swimming students... .. (pout, pout). But fair is fair. It's just that it's hard to do a swim workout after already being in the water 1 1/2 hours.
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Angel Wrestler
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quote: They seemed to enjoy themselves. [/QB]
... and that's (while not THE point it nonetheless is) an important point.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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Sorry, forgot to do this yesterday. Another 90 minutes decorating - scraping, sanding, filling, up and down the step ladder - this all being high level stuff. And shopping, which meant walking back laden and really did work up a sweat 30 minutes - so 120 minutes in all
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To The Pain
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Friday, July 13th: (cont) 20 mins walking to and from the shop at lunchtime 20 mins walking home from work 115 mins walking dog
Saturday, July 14th (so far) 45 mins walking dog
Total to add: 200 minutes Total so far: 1550 minutes or 25 hours and 50 minutes
Not having a car is going to up my times considerably - that mammoth dog walk last night was a trek out to our usual Friday-night park (and an attempt to get to the middle of the maze there without losing the dog!) to keep a little variety in the routine.
Now I have some errands to run in town so it will be on my bicycle, although I'm not really looking forward to peddling up the hill again on the way home.
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Smudgie
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Heavy shifts at work are a nightmare - nothing really that can be logged but I am left too physically tired to exercise.
Off on holiday tomorrow and have booked myself in to the local gym so who knows... I will try to record my exercise while I'm away and post a mammoth score when I get back.... (believe that and you'll believe anything!)
What's more likely is that I'll spend the whole week moping under canvas at the sound of the torrential rain battering down on the tent roof (hopefully not through the tent roof) and comfort eating.
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SusanDoris
Incurable Optimist
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1 hr
Managed to get out twice, once in morning and once in afternoon, for 25 and 35 min. Some absolutely torrential rain in between times!
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la vie en rouge
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Got browned off again yesterday. 1 hour 15 minutes walking. Meant to do yoga, or weights or well, something but Didn't Feel Like It™. 1 hour 40 minutes walking so far today. Going to walk to Eiffel Tower for the Bastille Day fireworks later which should usefully build up some more time (it's a fair walk, but the crowds on the metro on the 14th of July terrify me).
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Jane R
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Today: another 40 minutes high-speed walking.
I'm definitely not going to win (it's interesting to see how much extra walking you rack up if you have a dog to exercise) but it's interesting seeing how many of my everyday activities count as Keeping Fit, and this is encouraging me to keep up with the gym visits. Not that I managed many this week, due to being away from home at a conference.
Anyway, running total is now 19 hours 12 minutes
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Jenn.
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2 hrs walking and 35mins running today gives me a running total of 23hrs 15 mins
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Just Me
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Wednesday - nothing Thursday - 70 minutes cycling Friday - 35 minutes walking to stations and bus stops Saturday - 20 minutes walking to shop and back
So 125 minutes to add bringing my running total to 11hrs 10mins
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Ariston
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Friday—Hour fifteen mountain biking Today—Three hours and assorted change biking, thirty minutes hiking. Tomorrow—y'all should just surrender now.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Yesterday - was out at the Town Festival for 4 hours, but the thing I was supposed to be doing that's more aerobic didn't happen: it's too dangerous to open the church tower when it's raining (lead gets very slippery). I think I can count 60 minutes - in little spurts, moving to get to take pictures of something happening, and then keeping pace while it happened - that also includes 10 minutes of stretches.
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Totals for the first two weeks posted to here:
- To the Pain .......... 25h 50m
- la vie en rouge ..... 25h 0m
- Jenn. .................. 23h 15m
- Ultracrepidarian .... 20h 25m
- AristonAstuanax .... 20h 05m
- Liberty ................ 19h 50m
- Jane R ................ 19h 12m
- Curiosity killed ... . 18h 35m
- Deputy Verger ...... 17h 20m
- Susan Doris ......... 17h 15m
- Rosa Winkel ......... 16h 30m
- Just Me ............... 11h 10m
- comet ................. 11h 05m
- harmony hope ...... 10h 35m
- Tea gnome .......... 10h 15m
- Yangtze ................ 8h 45m
- Scots lass ............. 8h 40m
- Smudgie ............... 8h 40m
- Meg the Red .......... 7h 50m
- blackbeard ............ 7h 35m
- Celtic Knotweed ..... 6h 20m
- Angel Wrestler ....... 3h 29m
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SusanDoris
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1 hr 55 min
Long walk, plus short one later.
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Jenn.
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Just 20 mins today. Walking to and fro. Hoping this cold disappears overnight or my progress could be curtailed rapidly!
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blackbeard
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Yesterday, busy day but nowt aerobic. Today, 50 m walking and 35 m runnish giving
1 h 25 m.
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la vie en rouge
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Adding on 1 hour 20 minutes walking last night to watch the Eiffel Tower explode , then 50 minutes walking and 30 minutes running today (should really have done more but didn't get home until well after eight in the evening, by which time it was getting a bit late).
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I now have a kitchen painted sunshine yellow and aching muscles. It took 2½ hours to paint it, after at least another 2½ hours to finish sanding, filling, scrubbing down and taking everything out, then putting it all back in. So I'm counting 5 hours.
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comet
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7/12: tons of physical work, but on-clock. so I can only claim 30 minutes dancing once I clocked out.
7/13: again with the hard work day, so a mere 20 minutes walk.
7/14: ! day off. we left early to drive to the state park and set up camp. (hiking to site, hauling stuff, cutting and splitting wood, schlepping some trees, etc) then took off on a hike to K'sugi Ridge by way of the waterfall trail. not much milage but a major climb - any steeper and we would have needed to be roped. my kids are natural goats and rocked it, though scared hell out of me a few times. hike back to camp was slower as downhill is tricky for me nowadays with my erratic sense of balance. the rain stayed mostly at bay the whole time!
took a few breaks to play in the waterfall and whatnot, plus great moments of profound slack at the camp, so I'm counting a day's total of 7 hours, 30 minutes which includes camp set-up, wood prep, hike, and post hike swim.
I'm happily not terribly sore.
today, 7/15: took down camp and hiked out (the rain showed up to help us hustle out!) for a total of 45 minutes. I may have more today but I doubt it.
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To The Pain
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Saturday, July 14th: (cont) 10 mins cycling to town (it's downhill but I was trying to get there in a hurry so I peddled most of the way anyway) 30 mins walking between shops 20 mins cycling home 60 mins walking dog
Sunday, July 15th 20 mins walking dog 35 mins walking to church 45 mins walking home 45 mins walking dog (because she got her usual hour, but I spent some of it looking on as she played in the burn)
Monday, July 16th (so far) 35 mins walking dog 30 mins walking to work the long way 'round
[b]Total to add: 330 minutes Total so far: 1880 minutes or 31 hours and 20 minutes
Wow! I'm at the top! At least I can use that as a positive aspect of no longer having access to a car. I don't really expect to stay there long though - la vie en rouge has made it past 60 hours in a previous fitness race and a few others have been close before as well. Which would mean I was aiming for 2 hours activity a day. Looking at my spreadsheet I have managed that on eight out of the fourteen full days I've posted so far. And most of those were since the car was consigned to motoring history. So it might be do-able. I'll stick with my 45 hours target for now (that only requires about an hour a day for the rest of the month) but once I hit that I really ought to aim for 60.
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la vie en rouge
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I don't know, you might still get there... Ironically being fitter than I was in the past means that I rack up less time My big scores in the past involved a lot of walking - this month I have been running instead, which is a better work-out, more calories burned etc. but less time to record. I'm pretty sure I won't get to 60 hours this time round.
OTOH, I have a strong competitive streak and since I'm near the top I think I'd quite like to win and consequently intend to give you a good run for your money
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