February 120 miles Walking/Running Challenge

twilight_princess

Hi everyone,

So last September I posted a 120 miles walking challenge, where I managed to walk just over the target at 122.5miles and loss just under 9lbs. I still love to walk long distances and try to do a few miles most days of the week as I judge it to be a great form of exercise that I can fit in anytime of the day, can endure long distances burning a lot of calories without the need of recovery and its free!

I’ve wanted for ages to do this challenge again but this time I would like to include miles undertaken by running or jogging as well as I’m getting serious about this, but this is optional. This would also be great for those who like to hike, as some of my MFP friends do.

All this challenge involves is just trying to achieve a walking and/or running mileage of at least 120 miles in February. This can be done in conjunction with any other forms of exercise you may undertake or just as your main. Ideally the aim should be to clock up 30miles per week which equates to approximately 10,000 steps 6 days/week, or mix it up whichever way you like.

If 120 miles seems too much to aim for, just do what you can. Sounds corny but its the taking part and pushing yourself that really counts.

Each week members of the group will post how far they’ve travelled and lbs lost..

Starting Weight: xxx lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Hope you will join me in this!

satoshieyes

Hmm if it was in march I could complete a sixth in one day, I'll try to do this

twilight_princess

Hmm if it was in march I could complete a sixth in one day, I'll try to do this

Hey, that would be great if you were to take part.

satoshieyes

Next Tuesday is going to be a 13.1 mile day.. Probably a cool down mile at the end as well

rebeccawalker1982

The baby loves to be outside so maybe we will just take 2 walks a day (averages out to be little over 4 miles a day to get to 120 miles) That should be do able sense we typicaly walk about 1.5 miles a day....so just need to add an extra block on to our route.

bubblesburst80

I'd love to do this, I'll fill in the blanks as I get to them

Starting Weight: xxx lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

MindyBlack

Absolutely count me in! I need this challenge. Good thing it is a leap year:bigsmile:

SynicalEnvee

This sounds interesting and I'd love to give it a try. It'll be great to see how many miles I'm walking/jogging!

kdenny1

ive ben looking for a group like this. I will give my weight on Wed

irishbabe_78

Count me in!

rebeccawalker1982

JUST FYI FOR THOSE GOING TO TRY THIS....If you dont have something to track your miles, there is an app for your phone called sportypal....the regular version is free. It uses GPS to track where you walk, how far, how long, average min mile, average speed and estimated cals burned. I use this and it helps know what routes I can take depending on if I have the baby, the puppies....the husband...lol. ect.

Jinji

This is great! I'm in.

twilight_princess

JUST FYI FOR THOSE GOING TO TRY THIS....If you dont have something to track your miles, there is an app for your phone called sportypal....the regular version is free. It uses GPS to track where you walk, how far, how long, average min mile, average speed and estimated cals burned. I use this and it helps know what routes I can take depending on if I have the baby, the puppies....the husband...lol. ect.

Nice tip. I use an app called routes that I save my favourite walks. Pedometers are great too but stride changes all the time as I slow down and speed up, so I don't rely on it.

Glad to see more people looking to take part.

honeybear25251

This sounds fun! I'm in!

irishbabe_78

this may be a dumb question, but do the apps used for tracking also track when you are on the treadmill? probably not since they use gps... hmmm.

kimmyj74

Count me in

twilight_princess

this may be a dumb question, but do the apps used for tracking also track when you are on the treadmill? probably not since they use gps... hmmm.

Hi there, if your in ireland I'm betting that you use km instead of miles which is the same for me. Just take note of your distance and convert it (1mile = 1.6km) which I have to do when I'm adding to my diary. I know there are some devices that you can use on the treadmill but I'm not too up on this.

kdenny1

starting weight 138
week 1

thirtyandthriving

I am in!

twilight_princess

Hi everyone, so my starting weight is 193lbs (I've put on 1lb since Sunday ) and I'm hoping to get down to 185lbs by the end of the month. I started today with a 4 mile walk and hope to get some bigger miles done at the weekend.

Starting Weight: 193 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

rebeccawalker1982

Hoping I can drop atleast 5 more lbs....lost 5 lbs in Jan so 5 lbs in Feb would be good too. (Can running with the Wii Fit games count as miles because I know Im not always goign to be able to get in 4 miles a day with the baby)

Starting Weight: 211 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

thirtyandthriving

this may be a dumb question, but do the apps used for tracking also track when you are on the treadmill? probably not since they use gps... hmmm.

No, but most treadmills do this for you.

thirtyandthriving

Starting Weight: 179 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 day 1 3.6 miles

satoshieyes

Starting weight 263 February 1st
Distance run/ walked so far 4.2 miles

Shame this isn't based on biking..

satoshieyes

I might have to bow out of this.. I want to switch up this month of exercising and bike ride and do stairs instead.. I'm sorry but after Tuesday I might be stop my running for a month

bubblesburst80

Starting Weight: 215.4 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

mimi2kk

Count me in!

Starting Weight: 123.2 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

twilight_princess

Hoping I can drop atleast 5 more lbs....lost 5 lbs in Jan so 5 lbs in Feb would be good too. (Can running with the Wii Fit games count as miles because I know Im not always goign to be able to get in 4 miles a day with the baby)

Starting Weight: 211 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Yesh this can count. I do this exercise but have no idea on what the distance is. I've been inside more due to bad weather but yesterday was using a 1 mile sample of Leslie Sansone's walk at home that is available on the website so will count this towards my total.

racerZ28

Starting Weight: 182.4 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Count me in!

twilight_princess

Hi everyone, I hope all is well.

So for the 1st week I got in 30.5 miles and lost 1.4lbs. I had planned to do a bit more but there has been a spell of bad weather that has deterred my intentions.

Starting Weight: 193 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – 30.5 miles and 191.6 lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

rebeccawalker1982

So between an unhappy baby and bad weather I didnt get to walk as much as I wanted to. This wee will be better even though its flippin cold outside!...on a brighter side I did lose 2 lbs in a week! YAY!


Starting Weight: 211 lbs (Wednesday 1st February)
Week 1 – 12.35 miles and 209.4 lbs (Wednesday 8th February)
Week 2 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 15th February)
Week 3 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 22nd February)
Week 4 - xx miles and xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)

Total Walked – xxx miles (Wednesday 29th February)
Total lost – xxx lbs (Wednesday 29th February)