First of all, to oblige Charlie H (I wonder who that could be?), have a picture of a penguin. He's walking, so fits the theme of the blog perfectly...
I'm currently trying to make an ice penguin. It's a mould which my best friend (who lives in Helsinki) sent me for Christmas. You fill it with water, leave it outside in freezing weather, and voila, ice penguin. It's not going so well at the moment though, possibly because as cold as it feels here, I'm told it was -30ºC in Helsinki at the weekend, so I think it's made for that kind of weather. He's lying outside with a thick coat of snow on him though, so fingers crossed.
Back to the walking. I've come to the conclusion that my pedometer is picking up a lot of extra walking from station entrances down to platforms and that kind of thing. I already set the step length a little too short to try to compensate, but I think I need to do a little more than that, because there's no way I've been walking quite as far as it says I have, and I don't have a good enough memory to keep taking it in and out of my pocket according to whether I want my steps tracked or not. I already round down the total it's giving me, but I'm also going to deduct 2.5km from my total every week, just to make sure it's completely fair and enough of a challenge.
So... totals so far:
Week 1 - 17.5 miles
Week 2 - 24.2 miles
Week 3 - 17.8 miles
Which puts me a whole 2 miles over target. This last week has mostly been a lot of walking for work - more than planned, just because I happened to have home visits in and around Vauxhall on Weds and Thurs, and the only way to get anywhere near where I needed to go was to walk, cos all the roads within almost a mile's radius were sealed off for the helicopter crash.
Fear not. I'm not just going to write about walking here. Given that I'm aiming to keep this up for a year, it could get (or maybe already is) more than a little dull. So I'll intersperse it with a few penguins and other bits and pieces here and there.
I'm currently trying to make an ice penguin. It's a mould which my best friend (who lives in Helsinki) sent me for Christmas. You fill it with water, leave it outside in freezing weather, and voila, ice penguin. It's not going so well at the moment though, possibly because as cold as it feels here, I'm told it was -30ºC in Helsinki at the weekend, so I think it's made for that kind of weather. He's lying outside with a thick coat of snow on him though, so fingers crossed.
Back to the walking. I've come to the conclusion that my pedometer is picking up a lot of extra walking from station entrances down to platforms and that kind of thing. I already set the step length a little too short to try to compensate, but I think I need to do a little more than that, because there's no way I've been walking quite as far as it says I have, and I don't have a good enough memory to keep taking it in and out of my pocket according to whether I want my steps tracked or not. I already round down the total it's giving me, but I'm also going to deduct 2.5km from my total every week, just to make sure it's completely fair and enough of a challenge.
So... totals so far:
Week 1 - 17.5 miles
Week 2 - 24.2 miles
Week 3 - 17.8 miles
Which puts me a whole 2 miles over target. This last week has mostly been a lot of walking for work - more than planned, just because I happened to have home visits in and around Vauxhall on Weds and Thurs, and the only way to get anywhere near where I needed to go was to walk, cos all the roads within almost a mile's radius were sealed off for the helicopter crash.
Fear not. I'm not just going to write about walking here. Given that I'm aiming to keep this up for a year, it could get (or maybe already is) more than a little dull. So I'll intersperse it with a few penguins and other bits and pieces here and there.
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