Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

It was indeed a good weekend I wore my pedometer and walked around 3.5 miles every day, even though I didn't leave the site!! Just wandering back and forth between workshop, dining room, cafe, workshop, car, cafe... :rotfl:

Spent £6 today going to cafe to get some work done, and then another £4 on breakfast items and fruit pastilles for long run tomorrow.

Weird evening, but I've just taken a peek at the bank account (through half closed eyes...) According to my spreadsheet we should be about £100 overdrawn :eek: but there's actually £50 in there... Hmm...

starnac

Is there a difference between "available balance" and "actual balance"? Maybe something hasn't come out yet?

Karmacat

Thats what I was wondering, starnac ... Cheery, that pedometer result is interesting! 3.5 miles, when you're not even trying, is pretty impressive

starnac

It's surprising actually how far you walk without trying. When I was in uni I worked in a nightclub. I wore a pedometer in work and just walking back and forth behind the bar I used to walk between 2-3miles a night! It was really interesting

rtandon27

Isn't it amazing just how easy it is to reach that magic 10000 steps? I was blown away that it did not take too much extra effort!:)

I too started wearing a pedometer earlier this year. My lunchtime 1/2 hour walk is a suprising 1.5 miles and, I do another 2.5ish miles just commuting to/from work and walking around in the office (in theory I have a desk job!). The only conscious change I made was to use the stairs instead of the [STRIKE]elevator[/STRIKE] oops I mean lift!;) That amounts to 3 flights up & down twice a day.

Have been toying with the idea of working towards 20000 steps a day, but wondering how much discipline/effort that would take?:eek:

Cheery_Daff

For me, 10,000 works out around 4.5 miles, so 20,000 would be 9 miles a day - not completely out of the question but requiring rather an effort and a fair bit more time!

(speaking as someone who literally just came back from a 9 mile run which took over 2 hours... :rotfl: )

starnac

Are you starting to taper now? My race pack arrived this morning and I'm excited and nervous all in one go. It's exciting to do but it's sooooo far!!! And I'm only goin half as far as you :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

You lot tire me out.

Karmacat

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

You lot tire me out.

:rotfl:

Erm ... I have a pedometer from Tesco Magazine in my desktop drawer. To clip it on or not to clip it on, that is the question ....

starnac

Karmacat wrote: »

:rotfl:

Erm ... I have a pedometer from Tesco Magazine in my desktop drawer. To clip it on or not to clip it on, that is the question ....

Definitely clip it on. I lost mine and am quite sad about it x