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SusanDoris

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1 hr 50 min

Gym plus walk to/from; town to/from.

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SusanDoris

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I have just checked back andit seems I did not put in yesterday, Monday, 3t0th time. It was

1 hr 35 min

which was gym plus walk to/from.

Sorry about getting out of order.

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Day 29 - walk over the cliffs: 95 mins x 2 plus 40 mins run/walk making plus 20 mins up and down cliffs x 2 total 260 mins for day
Sorry added this up when I was tired - think it should read total of 270 mins for the day

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Last post of the month, unless I get overtaken by an attack of extreme restlessness.
Just a walk this time - trying out some brand new boots - about 9 miles or so - 2 h 50 m.

Maybe a pushing of the luck, but in the event, boots were great.

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Today: 45 minutes high-speed walking

Final total: 34 hours 46 minutes

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Golly, it appears that the last time I posted times was Sunday 8th - that's further back that even I thought.

My dodgy ankle which I turned again back in June has been really painful, so exercise has been limited to a bit of commuter walking and outrigger canoeing. Really should get more into swimming.

Have done these as weekly summaries to make life a bit easier for CK

w/b 9th July
140 mins commuter walking
80 mins outrigger canoeing

w/b 16th July
160 mins commuter walking plus
120 mins walking around all over Hackney for the One Hackney Parade, local farmers market, another local market and the Olympic Torch procession

w/b 23 July
210 mins walking up and down the beach plus
60 mins swimming and jumping around in the sea (in shorter bursts) plus
110 mins commuter walking plus
80 mins outrigger canoeing

Mon 30th July:
15 mins commuter walking

Tues 31 July
60 mins commuter walking

Phew. Sorry for not really entering the day by day racing this time around.

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1 hour 50 minutes walking to end the month for me.

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did my first tabata routine today - 4 minutes - heck no problem, right? but in 4 minutes the body was ROCKING so it led to a full upper body lifting routine and I was AWESOME! my arms are jello. so far today: 45 minutes with tabata+lifting and if I didn't have a show to put on I'd keep going.

TRY IT! the video I saw recommended tabata as a quick "wake up" routine in the morning and I'm going to give it a go for a week and see how I feel. I think I love it. and it's so easy. (well, as far as learning and doing. it's a lot of effort!) if anyone wants the rundown, let me know and I'll explain over in the AS thread. 4 minutes= less than a cigarette, a shower, a cuppa. totally doable. fit into one workout song.

and it's only 4 pm here so I may not be finished logging yet. watch this space.

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Liberty

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July 28 - 65 minutes
July 29 - 80 minutes
July 30 - 140 minutes
July 31 - 150 minutes
Walking, aerobics and some scrubbing of the bath!

I've given up on keeping a running total. [Biased]

This has been fun y'all. I do feel kinda guilty that I was doing all my exercise whilst not working. I'm in awe of you all. (Especially CK for all the hard work! Thank you.)

Lib xx

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Oh. Today is the end of the month. I, um, thought it was tomorrow. Well, I guess those Wednesday bike races are a day too late . . .
Put me down for 1 hour, 1 minute, and 11 seconds of bike riding, then. I did a few extra laps of the AA's Neighborhood Criterium today just to make up for any extra fudging I may have done over the month (and also to justify all the strange rounding I've done as well).

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Tuesday, July 31st (cont)
10 mins of walking at lunchtime
25 mins walking home from work
10 mins cycling to the cinema
20 mins cycling home from the cinema
65 mins walking dog in a couple of stints either side of the cinema trip

Total to add: 130 minutes or 2 hours and 10 minutes
Total: 4200 minutes or 70 hours [Eek!]

Got up too late this morning for flatmate to even come on the morning dog walk and I can't even count it for race minutes. I shall have to put it down to being selfless and wonderful.

I will admit to working out my likely total yesterday afternoon, figuring out that I would be five minutes away from a 70 hour total (70 hours, how on earth have I done 70 hours of activity in July?) and deciding on that basis to tack a wee diversion onto my walk home. It is kind of good to discover that I can do that level of activity if it's fairly gentle and I have some sort of outside motivation to do it but the responsibility of having to walk the dog every morning and evening does rather eat into my time to do other things. I'm never going to beat this race total so I shall just enjoy it.

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Day 31 (final day!) - usual 60 mins dog walking!

Sorry no idea of total now but usually add it up wrongly late at night anyway! [Big Grin]

Thanks CK for all your hard work - without you this wouldn't happen!; for the hosts for hosting and to the other Fitness Race Commrades out there...I've really enjoyed it and can't wait til January! [Smile]

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Goddamn, I had a piece of paper with all my totals, but I threw it out in Northeim, so will only be able to now post from memory:

Monday the 16th: 1 hour and 40 minutes of walking.

Tuesday the 17th: A journey to being picked up included 20 minutes of walking with luggage; in Berlin I walked for a total of 1 hour and 30 minutes with luggage.

1 hour and 50 minutes in total.

Wednesday the 18th: Walk to bus and then to train station, 20 minutes. Changing trains, 10 minutes. Walk to youth hostel, 25 minutes.

55 minutes in total.

Thursday the 19th: Table tennis for 1 hour. 30 minutes of walking.

1 hour and 30 minutes.

Friday the 20th: Table tennis for 2 hours and 15 minutes in total. 30 minutes of walking.

2 hours and 45 minutes in total.

Saturday the 21st: Table tennis for 2 hours and 10 minutes. 45 minutes of walking.

2 hours and 55 minutes of walking.

Sunday the 22nd: Table tennis for 2 hours.

Monday the 23rd: Walk around town for 45 minutes. Table tennis for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Frisbee for 20 minutes.

3 hours and 20 minutes in total.

Tuesday the 24rd: Table tennis for 2 hours and 30 minutes. Walking for 40 minutes.

3 hours and 10 minutes in total.

Wednesday the 25th: Walk around town for 45 minutes. Walk up a hill and back for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Table tennis for 3 hours.

5 hours and 5 minutes in total.

Thursday the 26th: 2 hours and 30 minutes of table tennis. 15 minutes of badminton.

2 hours and 45 minutes in total.

Friday the 27th: Table tennis for 1 hour and 30 minutes. 20 minutes of walking.

1 hour and 50 minutes in total

Saturday the 28th: 45 minutes of walking.

Sunday the 29th: Up the hill and back for 1 hour. Running about town (forgot bank card) for 20 minutes. Walking around town for 20 minutes.

1 hour and 40 minutes in total.

Monday the 30th: 15 minutes of table tennis. 20 minutes to the train station, and a further 5 minutes of walking while changing trains, before a 20 minute walk in Dresden with luggage on my back and shoulder.

1 hour in total.

Tuesday the 31st: 1 hour and 10 minutes walking with luggage in Dresden, before doing likewise in Wrocław for 15 minutes. 40 minute walk in the evening.

2 hours and 5 minutes.

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no more to add for me. I did lots of stuff but it wasn't really "workout" stuff - general housekeeping and such. so that's me, done! great race, folks, and great job, CK!

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Tuesday 31st - walked to work and part way home again - 2hrs 5mins

Final total 25hrs 50minutes

I didn't manage an hour a day and I didn't manage to double January, but it works out as a nice neat 50 minutes a day on average. I can live with that.

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29 July, another 4 minutes going for a Chinese takeaway.

30 July; 30 minutes getting to work and 27 getting home, total of 57 minutes for the day.

31 July I had to drive so as to get home in time, so 2 minutes each way for getting between overflow carpark and work site, plus 1 minute running up a church path to get to a funeral (we were still slightly late [Frown] ). Total for the day 5 minutes.

Total this post is 1 hour 6 minutes. Final total for the month of 35 hours 54 minutes. Not too bad given I missed the first few days!

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Totals entered to here, - I can count another 60 minutes finding things to photograph yesterday - wandering up to the skateboard park and also on a march - which meant much rushing back and forward

Ultracrepidarian is still to post a week or more

la vie en rouge, you were only an hour behind To the Pain 69 hours to her 70 hours. Ultracrepidarian had posted 45 hours 45 minutes to the morning of the 26th, so I'm expecting something in the high 50s if not higher.

Rosa Winkel - 55h 10m
Liberty - 54h 30m
me - 51h 20m

and I'll put the other totals up tomorrow to give the other stragglers a chance to post.

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Today my cousins flew in. Dodgeball to wear a 9 year old out after an 8 hour flight doesn't count for this any more. I should have borrowed him sooner! [Big Grin]

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31st walking 1 hour ten minutes
Total 28 hours 41 minutes.
Thanks again for doing the spreadsheets Ck
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CK you truly are a legend! Thank you once again for keeping all the maths straight, that's a really thankless task.

Like a number of folk I have lots of activity coming up that won't count for the race - next week I am moving house and helping out with a folk dance festival while the dog's family don't return until next weekend, so there could be all sorts of activity to log.

I guess I shall see everyone in January when I shall be back to my usual lazy self and struggling to fit in minnutes. Hopefully my performance in this race will remind me that I can find the time for exercise even on busy work days.

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Jane R
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harmony hope:
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Day 29 - walk over the cliffs...
[Eek!]

Oh. I see what you mean...

Off to find out what tabata is, in the hope of finishing a bit higher up the rankings next time!

Thanks for organising this, CK.

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Dammit! I coulda won. Oh well.

Thanks CK for organising, and well done TTP who was a worthy winner.

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I've pm'ed Ultracrepidarian as I think it's just him to post before I put up the final times. If he's not posted by tomorrow I'll put the final listings up anyway.

{Note to self, still need to add times between this post and the last to the spreadsheet

I'm using my posts on the thread as markers to where I've put stuff on the spreadsheet)

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I've pm'ed Ultracrepidarian as I think it's just him to post before I put up the final times. If he's not posted by tomorrow I'll put the final listings up anyway.
Ooooh...exciting! [Big Grin]

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Thanks for the PM, CK. Sorry for keeping you up - I got a bit distracted and forgot about posting times here.

Here's the last week:

25 July

15 minutes cycling home, and then 10 minutes walking to the pub and back.

26 July

40 minutes cycling home to work to slacklining/climbing to home.

50 mintues of slacklining and about 1 hour 45 minutes worth of exercise at the climbing wall.

27 July

20 minutes morning run, and then 30 minutes commuter cycling during the day.

28 July

Climbing trip to the Roaches:

About 15 minutes of walking to get from the car to the crags and back again, and about 2 hours 45 minutes worth of climbing exercise while there.

29 July

1 hour cycling from home to church to home, and from home to train station to home.

30 July

10 minutes walking to get public transport to work (caught a bus because I was bringing a cake), and about 40 minutes walking to choir and home after work.

31 July

40 minutes cycling home to work to climbing to home, and about 1 hour 30 minutes worth of exercise at indoor climbing.

Phew. I think it was a pretty normal month in the end, rather than my originally expressed hope to do some 'extra' stuff for the fitness race, but still a busy and happy one. [Smile]

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I think that's it:

  1. To the Pain ............... 70h 0m
  2. la vie en rouge .......... 69h 0m
  3. Ultracrepidarian ......... 57h 05m
  4. Rosa Winkel .............. 55h 10m
  5. Liberty ...................... 54h 30m
  6. Curiosity killed ........... 51h 20m
  7. comet ....................... 40h 55m
  8. Susan Doris ................ 40h 30m
  9. harmony hope ............. 39h 12m
  10. Celtic Knotweed ........... 35h 54m
  11. Jane R ........................ 34h 46m
  12. AristonAstuanax ........... 34h 20m
  13. blackbeard .................. 31h 10m
  14. Tea gnome .................. 28h 41m
  15. Yangtze ...................... 26h 0m
  16. Just Me ....................... 25h 45m
  17. Scots lass ...................... 8h 40m
  18. Smudgie ........................ 8h 40m

And those who dropped out, just so they can see where they were standing.

  • Jenn. ............................... 31h 25m
  • Deputy Verger .................... 17h 20m
  • Meg the Red ........................ 7h 50m
  • Angel Wrestler ..................... 3h 29m

Well done everyone. From blackbeard up everyone exercised more than an hour a day on average - and To the Pain was exercising for 2¼ hours a day on average.

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Many congratulations to To the Pain and la vie en rouge for those excellent times, and
Many thanks to CK for managing the Race again; much appreciated.
As always, it has been so interesting reading what participants have done, and it's quite hard to stop recording time on the 1st August, isn't it?!! [Smile]

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Thank you everyone (esp CK) - I've really enjoyed it! [Smile]

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Thanks again, CK! It was good fun, and interesting to read about all the different things that people are getting up to. I'll be interested to see how January compares to July!
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And my thanks too, CK.
We shall see what January brings ... (possibly a sense of panic at an impending half marathon)

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Thanks a lot CK. I appreciate your work.

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