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Entries from October 2008
October 28, 2008
Naomi – Oct. 21 – 27…a middling course
Oct. 21 – 6,032 steps Oct. 22 – 5,017 steps Oct. 23 – 2,637 steps Oct. 24 – 4,074 steps Oct. 25 – 3,709 steps, 2,689 aerobic. Treadmill 15 mins., 2.5/1.5 Oct. 26 – 5,187 steps Oct. 27 – 5,499 steps Seem stuck at zero about doing new exercises. See my blog, www.alittleredhen.com for 10/28/08 [...]
October 27, 2008
Lia – Clean Slate
Oh, dear ElderExercisers please forgive the two weeks silence. I’ve been visiting family in Canada. We spent sometime in Montreal and Toronto. My walking schedule was fine; I managed to do between 5,000 and 8,000 steps every day, and most were above 7,000 steps. Many days, with the help of my sister’s and her partner’s [...]
October 26, 2008
Sara – also so…so…so…
Responding to Claude’s gentle nudge here! I am a bit late also. No dancing yet this week but I am going with some friends to a “dancing” at a restaurant which is a sort of Oktoberfest, with a German band called The Bavarian Stompers. There will be lots of polkas, which is a very energetic [...]
October 26, 2008
Claude – so so week
I’m one day late, and have no excuses Only it was medical week, and I was away for two days and visited with my friend Annik, and luckily we had nice weather. Anyway, here goes Sat Oct. 18: 10,000 steps Sunday Oct. 19: felt lazy and just went to the market. So this was only [...]
October 22, 2008
Naomi – Oct. 13 – 20 Change is hard…
Disappointing week with less consistent step accumulation. Only have recorded 5,000 or above. Also had to face how difficult it is for me to do home-based exercise and any other than walking. Oct. 13 – 5,353 steps 1,127 aerobic. Oct. 16 – 8,329 steps Oct. 17 – Weight dropped to 139 pounds…forgot pedometer. Oct. 18 [...]
October 20, 2008
Sara: It’s getting colder here…
Hi, everyone, we have had some near-freezing temperatures overnight during the last week, then some lovely Indian summer. Work continues to be rather continuous but I was fortunate to be able to have two days off in a row, today and yesterday, so I feel somewhat restored. Fri. Oct. 10 – 10,707 steps (6749 aerobic), [...]
October 18, 2008
Claude – a bit under the weather this week
Saturday Oct 9 went to a 2-hour Feldenkrais workshop, 2,700 steps (getting there and back) Sunday Oct 10, didn’t feel really well. Have been suffering from diarrhea lately and this doesn’t help me at all with exercising 3,000 steps, just went to the market and back. Monday Oct 11, no swimming-pool but I did walk [...]
October 16, 2008
Sandy – 9th to 15th October
I hesitate to record my scores after reading previous posts but there is a slight improvement on last week. Thursday: 4665 including a walk round town. Friday: 4605 and some gardening Saturday: 1920 (sore muscles!) Sunday: 2315 Monday: 2565 Tuesday: 1951 Wednesday: 2658 The reduction in steps later in the week is due to the [...]
October 13, 2008
Holly – Oct 7 to 12
The pedometer is really helping me want to walk everywhere ~ anything to get more steps in! Tues Oct 7 – 8854 Wed Oct 8 – 4822 Thurs Oct 9 – 2269 Fri Oct 10 – 7803 Sun Oct 12 – upwards of 9000 As Naomi posted earlier, I did indeed do canvassing for Obama [...]
