2020++ - smiling and waving and looking so fine

Sarahwithlove

Wow that's a lot of steps. I go to a gym slightly further away because it's cheaper and quieter 

mark55man

@Sarahwithlove - I must apologise I meant 40000 rolling week average not day.  I am sorry if I gave the impression I was some form of treadmill junkie

Sarahwithlove

Hahaha OK fair enough. I did think it was rather impressive to be 40k a day. I'm starting the 1m step challenge on 1st July for diabetes UK and that's average of 10800 a day. 

mark55man

Very good. I'll have a look at that challenge - 3 months over summer could be very good.   

mark55man

Busy day in the garden.  Trying to get on top of the mowing, including a long strip outside our house that isn't ours, but no one else does it.  Managed to do 12,000 steps - but my fitbit categorised it as riding a bike.  which made me laugh. So that's 43000, for the last week, despite being very busy W, T and F and not even hitting 1,000.  I will walk to the gym again tomorrow and do a gentle run and use some of the other machines, and then walk back.  Then I'm going to watch the football in the afternoon outside with friends, although it all seems a bit surreal

mark55man

lovely day today, it was so bright early that I just went for a long walk (10000 steps) and binned the gym so that's me at 47000 for the last 7 days, with a few more to go as I need to water the pot plants

football was good - watching with friends and having a beer was better - almost normal except for being outside

savingholmes

Glad you got to exercise and relax. Sounds balanced

mark55man

Another long walk avoiding the Gym after work gets me to 50000 over the last 7 days.  Last Tuesday was a monster though over 12000 so I will have my work cut out to match that.  May just have a bash first thing to get a good start to the day. 

Thank you SH yes Mr Balanced at the moment, well at the weekend anyway, during the week work/life balance needs a bit of attention.  

savingholmes

Well done on the steps

mark55man

Back under 50000 as I only had time for half my walk this morning, and gentle pottering around after work didn't add that many,  but Weds Thurs and Fri should allow me to improve as I was under 1000 each of those days so as I surge past that I only need 7000 a day to get to a 70000step week.  That said - its a lot of time per day to be walking, but I must learn to value it for its health and fresh air benefit.  Weds will be a scorcher than dampness sets in and I may be back in the gym