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Lia – Marching Along

lilalia — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:59:31 +0000

It was a very good week last week, back to the morning walks and even a bit more:

Monday: 2 hours walk

Tuesday: 1 hour 20 minutes walk

Wednesday: 50 minute walk

Thursday: 1 hour 10 minutes walk

Friday: 30 minutes walk

Saturday: stayed at home

Sunday; 20 minutes walk

Monday: stayed at home

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Lia – Caught Indoors

lilalia — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:55:25 +0000

Last week was not so hot with exercise. Various deliveries, appointments and husband home sick canceled the early morning walks that have been the main meat of my exercise program these last months. Did manage 15-20 minutes each day, but not more. Saturday went for a long 70 minute walk. Yesterday had a 15 minute walk. Hopefully, now that my husband is back to work, our walks will resume.

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Lia – Winter Wonderland

lilalia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:54:27 +0000

Can’t believe there is no reprieve from the ice, snow, and slush… No more said.

Tuesday: 80 min. walk

Wednesday: 45 min. walk

Thursday: 70 min. walk

Friday: 20 min. walk

Saturday: 40min. walk

Sunday: 35 min. walk with daughter (more talking than walking since streets were pure ice mingled with dirty water)

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Lia – Southern Wanderer

lilalia — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:57:42 +0000

I’ve been away visiting friends in southern and western Germany. It was a lovely time of good talks and fine walks. I didn’t keep a record, but I did walk every day for at least 30 minutes and there were three days of walking an hour. Since returning on Saturday:

Sunday: 60 minutes walking

Monday: 85 minutes walking

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Lia – still slogging through snow

lilalia — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:57:18 +0000

We’ve been hit by one snow storm after another. Thaws in between. Enough to build up a think ice sheet under the snow. Lots and lots of tails of accidents. Everyone is blaming everyone. People here don’t tend to know the reality of “sh*t happens”. Still managing to go for a walk with my husband most days:

Wednesday: 1 hour walk

Thursday: 1 hour 5 minutes walk

Friday: 40 minute walk

Saturday: 40 minute walk

Sunday: sofa slumming

Monday: 1 hour and 20 minute walk

I am back to listening to an audio book or podcast while walking. I think this will be just a phase, but it is fun to listen while walking along the canal.

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Lia – Bombastic really fantastic

lilalia — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:16:48 +0000

Sorry, that was my son’s favourite song long long ago. It does do well to sum up the last ten days. Drum roll…

Sunday: 1 hour of walking through a snow storm.

Monday: 1 hour and 40 minutes walking

Tuesday: 1 hour and 40 minutes walking

Wednesday: 1 hour 20 minutes walking

Thursday: 1 hour 20 minutes walking

Friday: 1 hour 50 minutes walking

Saturday: 20 minutes walking

Sunday: 1 hour walking

Monday: 1 hour walking

Tuesday: 1 hour 20 minutes walking

Think this was my best step count ever. Not saying it will continue, but I am patting myself on the back for having faced the icy, cold conditions (-16 degrees C today).

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Lia- Off the sofa and onto the ice

lilalia — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:10 +0000

These last weeks have been very strange ones indeed. I have been wrestling bad weather (terrible ice conditions), a boat of lethargy, the pull of our sofa and a large pile of books…. I wish I could report a firm resolve to change my ways, but actually, I am more inclined to tread carefully and start slowly back into a regular routine. I definitely needed the time to recharge my inner batteries. The last months of work, trying to finish my research project in good form, were far too draining. Now, after nearly three weeks of relaxing, I feel so much better. Yet, it was not all sofa surfing. There were five days when the weather made it possible to take long walks: each 45-60 minutes long. And there were another 6 days where I managed 15-20 minutes of walking. I’ve taken Claude’s suggestion of crouching down and try to do this 2-3 times a day for a minute or two.

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Lia – Under the Weather

lilalia — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:07:55 +0000

Suffering the same snowy windy conditions Claude is, but I also have a very bad cold that makes me want to do nothing more than stay on the couch drinking copious amounts of tea and reading my way through a respectable pile of books. I have managed 15-20 minutes of walking six times in the last ten days. But, that is because we walk everywhere, having no car and bicycles are more or less out of service in the snowy conditions.

It’s taking a lot of effort to remove the snow from sidewalks, the owners of the homes or shops have to do it themselves. This makes walking through the snow extra hard; like walking through loose sand. After reading Claude’s post, I am determined to do some stretching as well. I’m letting this cold dictate my actions and that is not necessarily a good thing.

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Lia- Struggling Along

lilalia — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:29:42 +0000

Don’t want to whine. Don’t want to complain. Just want to tell you that I’ve been working on various projects at work or my volunteer work seven days a week. This situation will stop abruptly, since my work contract comes to an end at the end of the month. Exercise-wise, I’ve only managed to go to one jazz dance course and out walking for 20 minutes 10 times in the last two weeks. I wish the kilometers my fingers have walked on the keyboard could count! Two more weeks to go and then, the gods willing, I will have the occasion to do more exercises and meditation while looking for my next job.

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Lia – Good Week

lilalia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:00:23 +0000

It’s been a good week…

Sunday: 40 minute walk

Monday: 45 minute walk, 75 sit ups

Tuesday: 30 minute walk, 60 sit ups

Wednesday: 20 minute walk

Thursday: 20 minute walk, 1 hour jazz class

Friday: 20 minute walk, 75 sit ups

Saturday: 20 minute walk, 3 hour Salsa class

As a warning, this week is going to be more quiet, since the workload is big.

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