January Walking Challenge 2016

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  • roadrunner432
    roadrunner432 Posts: 12 Member
    Jan 2- Made my goal of 10,000 steps today... haven't made this for months. My goal is to hit this daily
  • CricketKate
    CricketKate Posts: 3,657 Member
    NuggetLovesEdie wrote: »
    Nicely done, everyone!

    Brookej, I like your goal. I wonder if I can find the Lord of the Rings walking distances again. (I'm nerdy. What can I say?)

    I had my phone in my pocket the whole time I was having a walking date with a friend, her puppy, and my dog. That was kind of impressive... 9497 steps, 5.1 miles. Weird. Didn't seem that long. I guess the friend who speaks English and not just dog also makes it easier.

    I definitely will have a hard time keeping that up when work starts back on Monday and/or the sideways rain comes back.

    But for now, it's sunny and COLD. I'll take it.


    ETA: Here's how one does simply walk into Mordor with lots of useful information that's not about hobbits. http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/23/walking/

    This one has the distances for LOTR journeys. http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Walk/walk.html

    I'm going to do the Bag End to Rivendell walk first. 3.5 + 5.1 = 8.6 miles in two days. That puts me getting my last glimpses of Hobbiton (http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Tools/Bag_end/bag_end.html).


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    Awesome! I've been trying to get my family to start walking more. This might help a reluctant 13 year old son.
  • jusandy
    jusandy Posts: 2 Member
    I'm in!!!
  • jen20l6
    jen20l6 Posts: 48 Member
    edited January 2016
    I would like to join.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,155 Member
    Got my walk in today. 4.65 miles in an hour and 37 minutes. It was a beautiful day for a walk.
  • SmurfBunny1027
    SmurfBunny1027 Posts: 150 Member
    3 miles today, so I'm at 6.5 miles so far. Seems like a lot, but I know that will slow quite a bit tomorrow when I go back to work!
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    edited January 2016
    3.9 miles today, the first mile was 18% grade up-freaking-hill.

    In my nerdy LOTR walk from Bagend to Rivendell, I've recently finished supper on day one and have started walking again.


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  • kyriddic
    kyriddic Posts: 2 Member
    I walked 30 minutes today.
  • Kristieackert
    Kristieackert Posts: 8 Member
    I was sore today from my walk last night, but got in 2.2 miles in 51 minutes...on to Day Three
  • MrsFlint2013
    MrsFlint2013 Posts: 49 Member
    I'm in! I'm restarting this journey. My goal: 8,000 steps daily.
  • treseyf
    treseyf Posts: 18 Member
    OK I walked 4 miles on my treadmill 1hr. 24min.
    Almost 9,240 steps so far.
  • treseyf
    treseyf Posts: 18 Member
    YvonneWright2 wrote: »
    Hi Folks, just signed up to MFP, and saw this. I have tried running, and always seem to injure myself, so walking it is! Swaped to a very sedentary job last year and have piled on the pounds. Walked miles around London today, but no pedometer. Going to put one on tomorrow abd try to do 10,000 a day or equivalent each day.

    Welcome. ..and you can do it!

  • bcbutler
    bcbutler Posts: 1 Member
    I'm in looking forward to it. Will start today
  • Alliepopp74
    Alliepopp74 Posts: 1 Member
    I'm in!
  • billcjallaire
    billcjallaire Posts: 4 Member
    I'm in. Where do I log in and keep track
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    Just right here, bill. Whenever you walk, just add your time/distance/steps/however you keep track right here. I'm sure even a "yup I did" is sufficient.
  • Phillippa_B
    Phillippa_B Posts: 5 Member
    I'd like to join please. My kids start back at school tomorrow, I usually walk unless the weather is severe. I'm ashamed to say tomorrow will be the first walk I've taken since they broke up a couple of weeks ago
  • SmurfBunny1027
    SmurfBunny1027 Posts: 150 Member
    2 more miles for me today. 8.5 total so far. If I keep this up I may need to increase my goal. I'm almost a third of the way there on day 4!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,155 Member
    I got in 3.1 miles today in an hour and 10 minutes.
  • CricketKate
    CricketKate Posts: 3,657 Member
    4 miles on the dreadmill this morning. They felt a lot tougher than my last walk/jog.


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  • treseyf
    treseyf Posts: 18 Member
    billcjallaire wrote: »
    I'm in. Where do I log in and keep track

    I asked the same? Just log your activity in the thread.
  • treseyf
    treseyf Posts: 18 Member
    I've walked a total of 5.26 today. An hour on the treadmill mill. 12,722 steps so far.
  • KSChampGirl
    KSChampGirl Posts: 6 Member
    I would like to join this challenge!
  • Kristieackert
    Kristieackert Posts: 8 Member
    Checking in. Walked three miles in an hour....
  • rkeatings
    rkeatings Posts: 78 Member
    I walked an hour tonight!
  • CricketKate
    CricketKate Posts: 3,657 Member
    5 miles this morning

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  • LoveLacy
    LoveLacy Posts: 41 Member
    Yesterday I went for 15min walk on lunch break and then got of bus early and walked rest of way home 30mins. Today only 15min walk but went on wii and did free step for 10mins 843 steps.
  • cathy27518
    cathy27518 Posts: 5 Member
    I have been sitting down for years. After an active life as a younger person, in my 60s I became very sedentary. Not a sudden change, it's been going on for years. Now I'm 71, and after years of "thinking about it", I've decided it's really stupid for someone who wants a long healthy life to just sit, and sit, and sit, with intermittent breaks for lying down. I don't think I can do anything but walk, but I live in a good place to do that. My son says, "baby steps mom, just baby steps to start".

    I need a LOT of encouragement. I know I can physically do it, it's a mental thing at this point. So I'd like to join you in logging your walking. At first, all I'll know is how long and how it felt. But I have downloaded "map my walk", maybe that will tell me how far I went?

    Thanks for listening.
  • mjackson59
    mjackson59 Posts: 14 Member
    2765 steps today!!!!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,155 Member
    It was cold and miserable today but I still got in 2.39 miles in 51 minutes.

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