March Walking Challenge - join in :)

NeuroticVirgo
NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
edited September 24 in Fitness and Exercise
This is continued from the January and February Walking Challenge, but its nice when each month has its own thread. :laugh:

Walking seems like the easiest way to start getting exercise, and even if you can't track distance (or don't want to), tracking time is good too...go for a 10 min walk after dinner, or up it to 30 minutes, you'll be amazed at the end of the month how much more exercise your getting in. :)

Check in everyday with how far you walked or how long, this is just to motivate us to get in at least some exercise everyday, and keep an eye on each other.

Make a ticker and keep it in your signature to remind you of your goal, and show everyone how well your doing. Go to this website.

http://www.tickerfactory.com/ezticker/ticker_designer.php?type=8

Pick out your ticker pictures, set your miles or minutes, and your goal. Then copy all of the bbCode into your signature. :) It will look like this (but in your ticker...like mine) You use the url (from the bbCode) to update your ticker everyday, just remember your pin.


Example of Tracking Miles - 1 mile everyday


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Example of tracking Minutes - 30 min everyday


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I want to try to keep this mostly to walking or walking type exercising. treadmills and ellipticals are A-OK. :laugh:

Hope to see some more faces in this challenge, we'll start tracking March 1st!
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  • hiya

    i would love to join in - does it need to be 30mins a day? or can it be any amount of time that i set myself?

    thanks
  • looby1968
    looby1968 Posts: 742 Member
    I'm in again! I thoroughly loved the February Challenge. I've started the C25K running programme, which I'll be doing 3 times a week, but I'll just log my walks (for which I mainly use Leslie Sansone. I love that I can do 3 miles in 30-40 mins. If I actually went out doing the things I can do in the privacy of my lounge (side-steps/leg kicks/knee lifts/kick backs/grape vines/waving my arms all over the place), I'd be arrested!!!

    Thank you for doing this again.

    I'll sort out my ticker and decide on my goal on March 1st!

    LouiseXXX
  • katschi
    katschi Posts: 689 Member
    I'm in! I love walking whether it's on my treadmill or outside in the fresh air.
    Thanks for starting this!
    See you on Tuesday then. :happy:
  • esorcel
    esorcel Posts: 459 Member
    bump
  • Count me in :happy:
  • CricketKate
    CricketKate Posts: 3,657 Member
    I'm in again. Though, I think for March I will have to count minutes instead of miles.

    Thanks, Virgo, for keeping us on track! You're giving me a lot of motivation to keep moving!:flowerforyou:
  • JustJessie
    JustJessie Posts: 162 Member
    Alright here I am! I'm going to try to stick with it this time!
  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    hiya

    i would love to join in - does it need to be 30mins a day? or can it be any amount of time that i set myself?

    thanks

    It can be anything you want, its your own goal. :) Those are just examples so people could see how the tickers look set up.
  • BeckyJill7
    BeckyJill7 Posts: 547 Member
    I'm in- I'll have to think about my goal because I'll be on vacation for 9 days. I'm thinking I'm going to go for another 50 miles and just suck it up!
  • Bump (I think I need help with tickers and signature lines)... I thought I added my weight loss ticker; however, it never shows up :cry:
  • looby1968
    looby1968 Posts: 742 Member
    Bump (I think I need help with tickers and signature lines)... I thought I added my weight loss ticker; however, it never shows up :cry:

    I've sent you a message, which, hopefully, will help.

    LouiseXXX
  • Bump (I think I need help with tickers and signature lines)... I thought I added my weight loss ticker; however, it never shows up :cry:

    I've sent you a message, which, hopefully, will help.

    LouiseXXX

    Thank you so much Louise... as you can tell - your assistance was valuable... I have two tickers now :-)
  • bigmama65
    bigmama65 Posts: 2,529 Member
    I am in for sure once again. Thanks Virgo for setting this up once again. We can do this!!!
  • MJ5898
    MJ5898 Posts: 1,549 Member
    Bump...

    How do you fit 2 trackers plus your current weight/goals/etc on in the signature block? When I try to add anything, it "yells" at me for trying to exceed the 10 line limit :cry:
  • charlene77
    charlene77 Posts: 250 Member
    I'm in! My first challenge....excited! I will think of a good goal for me, for the first!
  • I'm in also
  • teasha43
    teasha43 Posts: 101
    Hi All! Im in ...60 mile minimum for March...Happy Walkin:)
  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    Bump...

    How do you fit 2 trackers plus your current weight/goals/etc on in the signature block? When I try to add anything, it "yells" at me for trying to exceed the 10 line limit :cry:

    I just had to take out any spaces (like if I hit enter to double space between 1 line and another, so the tickers are like right on top of each other). Hope that makes sense.
  • I'm in. I need something to get me going right now. I love to walk but haven't been able to do much the past couple months so this will be my new start!
  • Can I join? :) xxx
  • gbryant
    gbryant Posts: 24 Member
    I am in
    Can any one help me add the ticker at the bottom that tracks my progress in miles. :glasses:
  • gbryant
    gbryant Posts: 24 Member
    I guess I already did it, but I lost my weight loss, ow well, this will do.
  • ceejay000
    ceejay000 Posts: 402 Member
    I'm going to join this. Sounds like an excellent idea :).
  • Hi, This sounds really good fun. I keep making excuses about not going to the gym but I am sure I can fit in 30 mins a day for a walk. Count me in :)
  • jeritaylor
    jeritaylor Posts: 20 Member
    Bump I would LOVE to join. :smile:
  • esorcel
    esorcel Posts: 459 Member
    I plan to walk 40 miles during the month of March. I am looking forward to starting this challenge.
  • yportia
    yportia Posts: 864 Member
    I would like to join. Will try to at least average 10000 steps a day.

    Portia
  • 10more
    10more Posts: 87 Member
    Hi, I'd love to join. :smile: I'm hoping this will help get me back into the habit of exercising. My goal is to walk a total 930 minutes by 3/31, which would be 30 minutes a day.
  • CricketKate
    CricketKate Posts: 3,657 Member
    I made my new ticker. I'm going for minutes this month instead of miles. I WILL DO 30 minutes of walking a day.:wink::smile:
  • carcar63
    carcar63 Posts: 158
    would love to join the walking challenge for March. I need to get back into walking and moving, this will help me get moving again.
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