GOOD AFTERNOON Y'ALL HOPE UR DAY HAS BEEN WONDERFUL... ANOTHER 4 MILE SUPER CHALLENGE DOWN THAT BRINGS ME 2 54 LESLIE MILES WALKED AND LEAVES ANOTHER 18 2 GO... ALSO 1.5 MILES WALKED AT WORK =D

Goal 65 Miles
May 3 -- 2 Miles
May 4 -- 2 miles of 5 Day Slim Down.
May5 -- 2 Miles Belly Blasting Walk
May 6 -- 4 Mile Super Challenge
May 7- rest day
May 8-- Mile 2 and 3 of 5 Day Slim Down. Also did some 30 Minutes to Fitness Strength with 8 and 10 lb weights. I almost have biceps now, haha.
May 12- 3 Mile Power Walk
May 16--2 miles Debbie Rocker Am Walking
May 17--2 Miles, slow-shopping kind of walking
May 18--1 mile slow shopping
May 19-- 5 5 Day Slim Down. I did the 12 minute mile first cause I was afraid I wouldn't have the energy when I did finally get to it!
May 20--4 4 Mile Super Challenge.
May 21--4 4 miles of the 5 day slim down.


33 Miles as of May 20th.

5/21 I got in 4.15 miles. Makes for a total of 79.07 miles this month. I am already ahead of myself in miles walked at this time last month. Yay! :happy:


Happy walking everyone! :flowerforyou:

Goal 65 Miles
May 3 -- 2 Miles
May 4 -- 2 miles of 5 Day Slim Down.
May5 -- 2 Miles Belly Blasting Walk
May 6 -- 4 Mile Super Challenge
May 7- rest day
May 8-- Mile 2 and 3 of 5 Day Slim Down. Also did some 30 Minutes to Fitness Strength with 8 and 10 lb weights. I almost have biceps now, haha.
May 12- 3 Mile Power Walk
May 16--2 miles Debbie Rocker Am Walking
May 17--2 Miles, slow-shopping kind of walking
May 18--1 mile slow shopping
May 19-- 5 5 Day Slim Down. I did the 12 minute mile first cause I was afraid I wouldn't have the energy when I did finally get to it!
May 20--4 4 Mile Super Challenge.
May 21--4 4 miles of the 5 day slim down.
May 22--2 miles Intervals with Debbie Rocker


35 Miles as of May 20th.

5 mile advanced walk with Leslie today.

87 miles with Leslie to date

48 miles outside to date

135 miles total to date

goal 100 ...yeah met my goal!

5/22 Walked 1.94 miles. Only 28.99 more to make my goal of 110 miles. :noway:


Happy walking everyone! :flowerforyou:

Goal 65 Miles
May 3 -- 2 Miles
May 4 -- 2 miles of 5 Day Slim Down.
May5 -- 2 Miles Belly Blasting Walk
May 6 -- 4 Mile Super Challenge
May 7- rest day
May 8-- Mile 2 and 3 of 5 Day Slim Down. Also did some 30 Minutes to Fitness Strength with 8 and 10 lb weights. I almost have biceps now, haha.
May 12- 3 Mile Power Walk
May 16--2 miles Debbie Rocker Am Walking
May 17--2 Miles, slow-shopping kind of walking
May 18--1 mile slow shopping
May 19-- 5 5 Day Slim Down. I did the 12 minute mile first cause I was afraid I wouldn't have the energy when I did finally get to it!
May 20--4 4 Mile Super Challenge.
May 21--4 4 miles of the 5 day slim down.
May 22--2 miles Intervals with Debbie Rocker
May 23 -- 3 miles with Debbie Rocker Walking for Weight Loss


39 Miles as of May 23rd

Okay I lost myself in here somewhere.....

So ..I have walked with Leslie at all. All my walking has been outside

So far this month I have walked 70.5 miles I have 30 more to go to reach my goal. Yeah!!

Bless your heart lidenalex! Thanks for the post- well all your posts I find inspirational and motivating.
You should have yours on there too-

I'm with you Lilymay2- finding myself lol.

Just checked in for the morning haven't walked yet but oh what a beautiful day out there. Enjoy everyone- and happy walking!

GOOD MORNING Y'ALL HOPE IT'S BEEN A FABULOUS WEEKEND 4 ALL OF YA =D BUSY DAY 4 ME YESTERDAY SO I'M HERE THIS AM 2 CHECK IN... 8 MORE LESLIE MILES N ( yesterday & this morning 4 MILE SUPER CHALLENGE) that leaves me with 6 miles left on my GOAL so if nothing happens I will meet my GOAL b4 I leave Wednesday morning for my vacation... Hope there will be another challenge this 1 SERIOUSLY MOTIVATED me and I GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL WHO CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA AND EVERY1 WHO TOOK UP THE CHALLENGE... Ur POSTS KEPT ME GO N... BEST WISHES 2 ALL OF YA :happy:

May Goal: 50 miles
5/3 Exercise TV-Walking at Home-3miles=47 to go
5/4 Walk it Off & Tone it Up-5 miles=42 to go
5/5 WAP-Walk Slim-4 Fast Miles=38 to go
5/6 WAP-3 Fast Miles=35 to go
5/7 WAH-3 miles with weights=32 to go
5/9 WAH-Walk Slim-5 Really Big Miles-5 miles=27 to go
5/10 Just Walk-4 Mile Power Walk-4 miles=23 to go
5/11 Endomondo recorded -neighborhood walk=3.14 miles=20 to go
5/13 WAP-3 Fast Miles=17 to go
5/14 Just Walk-Ultimate 5 Day Walk Plan-Tuesday-4 miles-13 to go
5/20 Just Walk-Ultimate 5 Day walk Plan-Monday-3 miles=10 to go
5/23 Just Walk-5 Mega Miles--5miles-5 to go
5/25 Endomondo recorded-neighborhood walk-4.18 miles=1 to go

Walked 8.4 km (5.1 miles) today.

In my life I have lived by 2 main ideas.

1. The power of starting.
2. The power of acting as if.

I have been telling you a lot of the first idea, but not anything about the second. The first time I heard about the idea 2 was about 30 years ago, in a book from 1936 called:

Title: Wake Up and Live! by Dorothea Brande

Excerpt: Two years ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible for the magical results which followed my putting it into practice.The first thing to confess is that two years ago I was a failure.

When I actually had the good fortune to find the formula, I hardly believed in my own luck. At first I did not try to analyze or explain it. For one thing, the effects of using the formula were so remarkable that I was almost on the verge of being superstitious about the matter; it seemed like magic, and it doesn't do to inquire too closely into the reasons for a spell or incantation! More realistic than that, there was---at that time--- still a trace of wariness about my attitude. I had tried to get out of my difficulties many times before, had often seemed to be about to do so, and then had found them closing in around me again as relentlessly as ever. But the main reason for my taking so little time to analyze or explain the effects of the formula after I once began to use it consistently was that I was much too busy and having far too much fun. It was enough to revel in the ease with which I did work hitherto impossible for me, to see barriers I had thought impenetrable melt away, to feel the inertia and timidity which had bound me for years dropping off like unlocked fetters.

Here is the total amount of writing I was able to do in the twenty years before I found my formula---the little writing which I was painfully, laboriously, protestingly able to do. For safety's sake I have over-estimated the items in each classification, so a generous estimate of it comes to this: Seventeen short stories, twenty book-reviews, half a dozen newspaper items, one attempt at a novel, abandoned less than a third of the way through. An average of less than two completed pieces of work per year!
For the two years after my moment of illumination, this is the record: Three books (the first two in just two weeks less than the first year, and both successful in their different fields), twenty-four articles, four short stories, seventy-two lectures, the scaffolding of three more books; and innumerable letters of consultation and professional advice sent to all parts of the country.

How did it happen. When researching about hypnotism, I came across a sentence in the book I was reading. HUMAN PERSONALITY, by F. W. H. Myers, which was so illuminating that I put the book aside to consider all the ideas suggested in that one penetrating hypothesis. When I picked up the book again I was a different person.

Myers made a theorizing comment which is of immense value to everyone who hopes to free himself of his bondage to failure. He points out that the ordinary shyness and tentativeness with which we all approach novel action is entirely removed from the hypnotized subject, who consequently acts instead with precision and self-confidence.
Now the removal of shyness, or mauvaise honte (he wrote), which hypnotic suggestion can effect, is in fact a purgation of memory---inhibiting the recollection of previous failures, and setting free whatever group of aptitudes is for the moment required.
There is the clue. No sentence was ever more packed with rich implications for those who are in earnest about reorienting their lives towards success.

Now, if that is true - and only a little self-analysis will prove that it is true---how convenient it would be if each of us could carry a hypnotist about, to cast his spell whenever we had to get to work! How marvelous if each of us could have his own private Svengali! Impossible, of course; and, more than that, undesirable. Fortunately, it is not at all necessary to be put under the sway of another's will in order to do our own work. The solution is far simpler. All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this:

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

Clear out, by an easy imaginative feat, all the distrusts and timidities, all the fears of looking ridiculous which you may hardly suspect of being treacherous troublemakers in your life. You will find that if you can imaginatively capture the state of mind which would be yours if you knew you were going towards a prearranged and inevitable success, the first result will be a tremendous surge of vitality, of freshness. Then - well, the only way to put it is that it will seem as though your mind gave a great sigh of relief, of gratitude for the liberation, and stretched itself to its fullest extent. This is the moment where one may be forgiven for feeling that there is something truly magical about the whole affair. There will appear an extension of capacity which seems more than normal.
Then the long-dammed-up flow sets in: directly, irresistibly, turned at last in the right direction, the current gathers strength from minute to minute. At first you may still harbor some fear that the spell which worked so instantaneously may break in the same way. It will not, simply because it is no spell; it is a reminder to yourself of the way in which work can always be successfully undertaken. If you remember that, far from your seeing the successful action stop, you will find that each hour of unhampered activity opens out into a promise of others in the future.