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Thread: Fitness Race-January 2013
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la vie en rouge
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An ok start for me - New Year's Day constitutional in the park. I think I can count 1 hour 40 minutes walking and playing tig with my friend's daughter. (Tig should totally be revived as a game for adults, it's fantastic exercise ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) )
I think the coughing counts - one of the ironies of the race is that the fitter you get, the less time you rack up (because you do the same things faster).
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Heavenly Anarchist
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60 minutes of active housework and 15 minutes aerobics.
total carried forward: 135 minutes.
[ 02. January 2013, 12:45: Message edited by: Heavenly Anarchist ]
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Autenrieth Road
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I'm in. My New Year's resolution is to walk 30 minutes a day. Except I skipped yesterday. I have no expectation of winning since there are always people who do incredible amounts of exercise. But keeping to my goal will be a personal victory.
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Jenn.
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So far today I have done 65 mins of walking -college, library, college, home, college, home. I hadn't realised how much it all added up! Feeling all pleased with myself ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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SusanDoris
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35 min
Walk to, around and home from town. I particularly intended to buy tea and biscuits, but what with one thing and another and various distractions, I came home with quite a few other things, but no tea or biscuits!!
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harmony hope
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Day 2: 55 mins walking dogs in rain (nothing new there then )
Running total: 145 mins.
Thank you Jenn!
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Tea gnome
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2. I think I can claim an hour of walking today. Also 7 minutes on the unicycle.
Gives 127 minutes total.
Tg
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blackbeard
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quote:
Originally posted by Tea gnome:
2. .....Also 7 minutes on the unicycle.
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Tg
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Anyway. Back to my rather more boring activity.
Today - Up Butser Hill and return, 1 hour of (fairly strenuous) walking. (Butser Hill being as near as Hampshire gets to mountainous.)
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Starbug
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219 minutes achieved in Day Two - we walked nearly 8 miles today! That makes a running total of 251 minutes.
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Jane R
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I'm in.
1 Jan: 15 minutes' walk
2 Jan: 1 hour workout (weights and CV) at gym
Running total: 1 hour 15 mins
[ 02. January 2013, 18:45: Message edited by: Jane R ]
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ArachnidinElmet
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A grand total of 15 minutes strenuous activity, unless you count the hours of brain ache I suffered talking to my Dad?
Fingers crossed for better things tomorrow.
[ 02. January 2013, 18:55: Message edited by: ArachnidinElmet ]
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Tea gnome
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Originally posted by blackbeard:
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Originally posted by Tea gnome:
2. .....Also 7 minutes on the unicycle.
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Tg
Anyway. Back to my rather more boring activity.
Today - Up Butser Hill and return, 1 hour of (fairly strenuous) walking. (Butser Hill being as near as Hampshire gets to mountainous.)
When I say on... By the end of the month it will be my bitch, at present, it's a bit more flailing than riding. But thanks for the props ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Yangtze
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60 mins commuter walking (20+30+10) including past Buckingham Palace.
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Liberty
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Jan 2 - 70 min walking (daily commute plus to library/store and back) and 10 mins aerobics = 80 mins.
Running total: 145 mins
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Meg the Red
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January 1: 90 minutes walking, skating, and stair-climbing
January 2: My new year's resolution is to walk home from work at least three times per week until cycling weather arives. Managed to do it today, so a total of 95 minutes walking.
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Ariston
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So I haven't done much, and it might be a few days before I do, but I'll be in eventually.
Thanks for taking this off our hands, jenn!
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Mamacita
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Yesterday I managed 50 minutes total between treadmill and weights. Today I am flu-ish so exercised the keyboard only.
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To The Pain
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I'm in!
Starting the January race late as ever but it won't be anywhere as good as the summer when I was dog-sitting. Perhaps I should get an imaginary dog and wander about of an evening in a bid to get minutes for the race. I also live much closer to work these days, so I'll really need to put some effort in to get anywhere near my previous times.
Thursday, January 3rd
5 mins cycling to work
Total for post: 5 minutes
Running Total: 5 minutes
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la vie en rouge
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Meh meh meh meeeeeeeh
Well there I was planning to get up at 7 o'clock and go running but it's so bloody dark outside. I eventually fell out of bed at 8:30.
1 hour 20 minutes walking yesterday. I may go running one day, who knows....
Meh. So there. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Jane R
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Not so good today:
20 minutes fairly high-speed walking around the supermarket (which is roughly the size of an aircraft hangar)
Running total: 1 hour 35 mins
(3 days in and already lagging...)
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Heavenly Anarchist
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60 minutes of active housework and 15 minutes aerobics.
Running total: 210 minutes
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North East Quine
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40 mins gardening (weeding, planting and raking leaves)
Running total 2 hr 10 mins.
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North East Quine
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And another 30 mins gardening, raking leaves, and brushing up leaves.
A quick glance round the garden confirms that, provided the weather stays mild, I have hours and hours of potential gardening to do. Pity it's dark by 4.30pm.
Running total 2 hrs 40 mins.
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SusanDoris
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1 hr 40 min
Gym, plus walk to and from.
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Rosa Winkel
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January 3rd: 15 minutes of yoga. Running/walking for 50 minutes (I alternative running with walking, I guess I did 35 minutes running and 15 minutes walking. This is a good method apparently to avoid leg injuries, and anyway it's a good way to get me running as I know that I can take a walking break when I want). Later, strictly walking for an hour.
Total for today is 125 minutes.
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blackbeard
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Today managed a decent-ish run, but for only 30 minutes .
Hope to do better in future ... we shall see.
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Starbug
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Two hours today - walking into town, then round the shops and back home again. We live approx 45 mins from the centre of town. It took longer going home because I was carrying two bales of towels.
I'm not normally this active. It's because I'm on leave: from Monday, I'll be chained to my desk again. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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comet
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yesterday was an epic town trip where I managed a grand total of 20 minutes walking fast enough to count.
today I was actually a good girl for a change and did a combo of yoga and strength training for 1 hour and 15 minutes. I'm going to feel that tomorrow.
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Tea gnome
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Today 40 minutes walking plus 5 minutes unicycle and 2 minutes skipping (skipping is hard !)
Gives running total of 147 minutes
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Jack the Lass
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72 minutes today, making a running total of 132 minutes (although I think I'm going to find it easier in hours and minutes, so that would be 2 hours 12 minutes)
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Jenn.
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Today: 55 mins walking and 15 mins on the wii
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Freelance Monotheist
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Can I count my hours from the 1st of Jan?
If so, yesterday, walking round the shops/ up and down the Champs Elysées for about an hour, then today, 27 minutes on the cross trainer and 2 hours of sorting/putting stuff away in my recently re-floored room.
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Celtic Knotweed
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So, having entered the race in time to count all of January, I then spent the first 2 days curled up with a flu-type bug. Was well enough today to go back to work so:- 4 minutes walking from carpark to main site and back
- 10 minutes walking up to ringing
- 25 minutes ringing practice and ringing down
- 10 minutes walking home again
Total for today and so far is 49 minutes. Hopefully better times tomorrow!
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ArachnidinElmet
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1 hrs worth of walking into and around town, although a bus back due to haulage of groceries.
15 mins of house stuff.
Running total: 1hr 30 mins
Ah, I'm exhausted already.
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Just Me
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I won't join in properly - but I'm with you in spirit!
I've been mentally carrying out my own race to try to manage half an hour a day (just not-very-strenuous walking so far) but as it's taken till now to get round to checking in here I don't hold out much hope for logging my times.
Good luck everyone
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Liberty
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On a day when I got told I was going to earn less for more work I can't say I was motivated to do anything but eat left over Christmas chocolate.
30 mins walking to/from work - 175 mins total
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Ariston
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Playing hooky from work to go biking and (pretty active) fishing? Alright. I can do that.
5 hours
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harmony hope
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Day 3: 1hr 50 mins total walking time (110 mins)
Running total: 255 mins
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la vie en rouge
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This fitness race is totally not making me any more motivated. Once again failed to go running this morning (baby it's cold outside), I shall see if I can get myself out tonight. I did at least make myself walk most of the way home from work yesterday.
Yesterday 1 hour 20 minutes walking.
Tomorrow I am helping someone move house, which should rack up some useful time.
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Jane R
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4 January: 45 minutes swimming plus 6 minutes jacks
Running total: Running total: 2 hours 36 mins
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Heavenly Anarchist
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30 mins active housework and 15 mins aerobics so 45 mins
Running total 255 mins
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SusanDoris
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35 min
Walk to/from M&S car park in Lymington, so that includes the hill!
My friend is an excellent bargain finder and so I now have a new jacket (anorak but just the right weight, number of pockets, etc etc) reduced from £175 to £105 and it's just what Ive been looking for for ages.
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Smudgie
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Ten minutes on the Wii yesterday. Not much, but better than nothing.
Fifty minutes walking today - conscious choice to use public transport and walk rather than taking the car, enhanced somewhat by taking a wrong turning and walking several minutes in totally the wrong direction.
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To The Pain
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Oh dear. Like la vie en rouge I am struggling with motivation. Didn't even go for a short walk at lunchtime today.
Well, tomorrow I have a dance teachers' class so maybe that will involve some activity (I don't have high hopes - while they claim to aim for 'maximum participation for maximum dancers' there's far less actual activity than the frenetic student class I usually teach). Flatmate nearly suggested that I take her out for walks as we are not dog-sitting any more but then she decided that she would rather be in her bed. Then she nearly volunteered her stuffed cat but decided she'd rather cuddle him. It's imaginary dog or nothing!
Thursday, January 3rd cont
15 mins cycling to supermarket
5 mins walking around the supermarket (counting only the bit once I was carrying all the shopping)
8 mins cycling home
Friday, January 4th
10 mins walking to work
Total for post: 38 minutes
Running Total: 43 minutes
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harmony hope
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Day 4: 55 mins total walking time
Running total: 310 mins
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