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    January Walking Challenge 2016

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    • 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
    • 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.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      I'm in!!!
    • Posts: 48 Member
      edited January 2016
      I would like to join.
    • Posts: 5,245 Member
      Got my walk in today. 4.65 miles in an hour and 37 minutes. It was a beautiful day for a walk.
    • 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!
    • 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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    • Posts: 2 Member
      I walked 30 minutes today.
    • 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
    • Posts: 49 Member
      I'm in! I'm restarting this journey. My goal: 8,000 steps daily.
    • Posts: 18 Member
      OK I walked 4 miles on my treadmill 1hr. 24min.
      Almost 9,240 steps so far.
    • 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!

    • Posts: 1 Member
      I'm in looking forward to it. Will start today
    • Posts: 1 Member
      I'm in!
    • Posts: 4 Member
      I'm in. Where do I log in and keep track
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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!
    • Posts: 5,245 Member
      I got in 3.1 miles today in an hour and 10 minutes.
    • 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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    • 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.
    • Posts: 18 Member
      I've walked a total of 5.26 today. An hour on the treadmill mill. 12,722 steps so far.
    • Posts: 6 Member
      I would like to join this challenge!
    • Posts: 8 Member
      Checking in. Walked three miles in an hour....
    • Posts: 78 Member
      I walked an hour tonight!
    • Posts: 3,657 Member
      5 miles this morning

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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Posts: 14 Member
      2765 steps today!!!!
    • Posts: 5,245 Member
      It was cold and miserable today but I still got in 2.39 miles in 51 minutes.
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