December Ellipitcal Challenge?

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  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    3 miles at 5 a.m. then on my feet for 7 hours straight! I and my ankles are tired tonite!
    27.75 done! see ya tomorrow!!
  • hmsteph
    hmsteph Posts: 23
    So I am a little late in joining but I have knee issues too and the elliptical is my favorite. This will be a great challenge and better late than never right :bigsmile:
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Welcome to ALL the new joinies!!

    Another 3 miles in 28 minutes this early morn and now I am off to finish the shopping! 30.75 done! Yeah!!!!
  • anghahnmowry
    anghahnmowry Posts: 30
    Did not get to the gym for the last 2 days! But I did today and my new total is 38.15!!! Only 11.85 miles to go!!! YEAH!!!!
  • hmsteph
    hmsteph Posts: 23
    3 more miles today woot woot!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    no elliptical time for me yesterday or today. HOPEFULLY I can get there in the morning to get some time in. Teaching Monday and Tuesday but for sure I'll get time Weds, Thurs and Fri this week. Hoping to pass the 40 mile mark by Friday the 17th.

    Keep it up everyone!
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Another 5 miles today to make it 35.75!!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    4.6 scheduled for me in the morning will put me over 30. I think in January we'll have to make this a 75 mile challenge?

    Keep going!!!
  • nakitadawn1212
    nakitadawn1212 Posts: 135 Member
    4 miles today! 8 so far... I don't think I am going to get to 100. I also have a question. My elliptical keeps track of strides, not mileage. Does anyone know the typical strides in a mile? I hope I am calculating correctly! Good job every one ;)
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    I have NO idea maybe Google it and see what it says!

    Did another kick *kitten* cruise this morning. 3 miles in 28 minutes. Now I am off to sit in a waiting room while my 80 yr old mother who fell and broke her ankle in 3 places has surgery!! This is why I try to keep activity going so my bones stay strong!!! I have 38.75 miles in and may try to hop on after I get back this evening, sitting like that bothers me!!!
    Keep on keeping on challengers!!!:tongue:
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    Thanks to circumstances beyond my control I didn't get to the gym today to get my elliptical time in. TOMORROW MORNING I'll be there as soon as my son is on the bus.

    Strides per mile... I can check for you tomorrow. I go 120 strides per minute for 33 minutes to get 2.3 miles. Doing the math that means about 1722 strides is a mile.
  • nakitadawn1212
    nakitadawn1212 Posts: 135 Member
    Thanks guys! I did 2 miles today, but my plantar fasciliatis is acting up (because I haven't really rested it). So, tomorrow I am going to take it easy and maybe get a tae boe work out in! *** 10 miles so far***
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    nakitadawn: Keep rockin' it. You can make the 50 mile mark!
    vhuber: my prayers for a good strong recovery for your mom.

    Off to the gym for me after dropping my son at school. No bus this morning because he had a concert last night and is being a typical teen this morning. Gym about 8:00 eastern, so by around 9 I'll have added another 4.6 miles.

    Keep it up!
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    I got in a 5.25 mile cruise AFTER a 4.50 mile run! That will put me at 44 miles!!!!
    Come on troup we can do this!!!!!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    Only got 2.3 done yesterday but am still on clear course for more than 50 by end of month. Going to raise the bar for January!!!

    Keep up the great work everyone! (vhuber is pulling us along!)
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    I'm still at 44 miles today because I chose to run outside again after washing some walls and ceilings! I will try to hit the finish line tomorrow, Frank you did have us set at 50 miles right? I will go past it cuz I enjoy the elliptical!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    Yes, ma'am it was a December Elliptical Challenge to go 50 miles (or more) on an elliptical this month. I'll get past 50 as well, but not as far as you! Of course, if I had one in MY living room... ;-)

    Keep it up!
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Yeah I hit the finish line with my 6 miles today!!! I will keep posting as I cruise along!!! Where is everybody???
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    I am SO frustrated! Thanks to weather yesterday and today schools have been closed. No chance to go to the gym. I'm putting a Precor elliptical on my Christmas list next year! I'll have to settle for burning calories at home today but am not getting any elliptical miles in. Holding at 29 for the month so far...
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    Hey all!!! What's the progress? Who's on track? December is almost 2/3 over so we should all be at least about 31 miles in (give or take).

    I'm at 29 and holding for the past several days. Due to weather I haven't been able to get to the gym. Thank goodness that'll change tomorrow!! (maybe even today).
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    I will keep cruisin this week! I hit this goal and will hit my 100 miler challenge this week too! Even with fitness I have been struggling with depression, I truly think it is from lack of sunlight!!! I run outside but I am so bundled up cuz it is so dang cold here that I do not think I am receiving much sun! I also take a good source of vitamin D !!
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    OK, where are you challengers???????
    I cruised for 4.5 miles today, how about you????
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    I'm here!! Hitting the gym later this morning (finally) so I can add to my mileage. I think in January I'm also going to do a "move your *kitten*" challenge so I can track ALL my miles. I know I've walked plenty this month and in January I'll be at a convention one week. That week USUALLY entails me walking ten+ miles PER DAY for five days.
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    Alright... I added another 4.6 miles today taking my total to over 35. 15 more to go in 9 days... minus Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve. Hmmm... 15 miles in six days... a half hour per day will do it... but if I go an HOUR each of those six days, I could get 4 miles six times and end up closer to 60 miles.

    Where do we all stand? Who's still with the challenge?
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Yay, way cruise Frank!! I am glad I had hit the challengs cuz my back has been giving me problems so I have been walking instead!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    Yuck... I hope it recovers soon. Next month we're going to increase to sixty!! (he says confidently and full of himself bright and early in the morning)
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    32.5 miles added today! 39.15 mile total. 10.85 miles to go in the next seven days. At 2.3 miles per "set" I need six sets to break that 50 mile mark.

    How's everyone else doing?
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    WTG everybody!! Merry Christmas to you all!
    I added another 2.5 this a.m.on the elliptical plus 2 miles on the treadmill to complete my other challenge along with this one!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    CONGRATS!!! YOU GO GIRL!!! That's why you look like you do... I'm still working on being as svelte...

    MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
  • frankborelli
    frankborelli Posts: 218 Member
    UGH... so it's the day after the day after Christmas (27th) and I'm freaking snowed in AGAIN. I can't get to an elliptical until I can get to the gym so I'm stuck burning calories on my Wii Fit and my BowFlex. Unless the snow clears up I may not get enough time at the gym to actually MAKE my 50 mile mark and it's eating me up!!!!
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