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Lia- Doing fine

lilalia — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:18:13 +0000

Well, I haven’t posted in a while, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been a diligent walker…

Monday: 1 hour walking

Tuesday: 10,483 steps

Wednesday: 2 hours 15 min. walking (tried to use my pedometer, but it stopped counting at 7,000 steps and then counted backwards to 5,000, at which pointed I resisted the urge to throw it in the garbage)

Thursday: 25 min. walking, but 5 hours standing and working in the charity shop

Friday: 15 min. walking

Saturday: 1 hour 15 min. walking

Sunday: neit

Monday: 9,221 steps

Tuesday: 11,628 steps

Wednesday: nothing much worth mentioning

Thursday: 6,973 steps

Friday: 20 minutes walking

Saturday: 13,748 steps (the half of which were while carrying moving cartons and potted plants while helping a friend move to a new apartment. Also a lot of those steps were going up and down stairs to her third floor apartment.)

Sunday: plan to recover from today’s move!

P.S. There have been two or three occasions when my pedometer has started counting backwards. Once happened when I was riding my bicycle. Have any of you had this problem before?

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Lia – Good to midling week

lilalia — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:17:20 +0000

Being away on a trip did not turn out to be such a boost to my walking steps as I had hoped. It turned out to be rather poor cold weather. Still, feeling overall very good about the results.

Monday: 10 km bicycling, 30 min. walking

Tuesday: 1 hour 20 min. walking

Wednesday: 2 hours walking

Thursday: 40 min. walking

Friday: 10 km bicycling, 15 min. walking

Saturday: 10 km bicycling, 30 min. walking

Sunday: 7232 steps

Now that I know that the pedometer can be put in my pocket, I think I will try that more often.

Thanks all. You are a great support.

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Lia – Away down south

lilalia — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:38:59 +0000

Hello to all from down south (Germany). My son and daughter and I are doing the rounds of visiting friends in Erlangen and going off to visit the university city my son will be attending this fall. The weather is cooler down here, something that almost never occurs.

Tuesday: travelling and a long walk on arrival (11,342 steps)

Wednesday: 20 min. walking, 25 min. bicycling

Thursday: 25 min. walking

Friday: 40 minutes walking

Saturaday: 25 min. walking, 25 min. bicycling

Sunday: 15 walking, 25 min. bicycling

I bought a pedometer, but find that it doesn’t really do well on my baggy linen pants, which I am wearing these days because it is still so warm.

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Lia- Nothing to report

lilalia — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:51:09 +0000

The last two weeks have been such blah weeks that I couldn’t get the energy to write about all the non-exercise I was doing. I managed to get out for 10-20 minutes of walk all days, but only managed two walks of 40 minutes in the whole two weeks. Sorry guys, feel as though I have failed you as well as myself.

It is odd, this last winter was monsterously cold and icy and yet I managed to do quite a bit of walking. This summer has been hotter than I have ever experienced and I just haven’t been able to overcome the heat.

I am off with my children to southern Germany for the next two weeks. Not sure that I will have much internet connectivity. I’ve bought a pedometer again, so let’s see if this is more successful.

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Lia – Hot Hot Muggy

lilalia — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:05:13 +0000

Not going to spend much time talking about the weather, other than to say it is very hot and muggy here and this is making it hard to walk.

Thursday: 5 hours on my feet at the charity shop, 30 min. walking

Friday: 20 min. walking

Saturday: 45 min. walking

Sunday: doing nothing but putting my feet in a bucket of cold water

Monday: 45 min. walking

Tuesday: 1 hr. walking

Wednesday: 1 hr and 15 min. walking

Thursday: 40 min. walking

Friday: 40 min. walking

Saturday: 15 min. bicycling, 30 min. walking

Sunday: feet in cold water day

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Lia – Sultry Weather

lilalia — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:16:07 +0000

I’ve noticed that we seem to be talking about the weather again on this site. A friend of mine from Cameroon says that this is one of the differences she’s noticed when she moved to Germany. People start all conversations with the weather. In Cameroon, where the weather is nearly always warm or hot, or dry or not so dry, no one mentions it. Even so, I want to say that the weather here is hot and sunny and so, depending on what the day has ahead of me, I am adapting my walking according to the pace of the day. I walk early in the morning while it is still relatively cool, but if I have to stand in a stuffy hot charity shop for six hours, as I do today, I only go for a short walk.

Wednesday: 2 hours walking (two different friends came acalling)

Thursday: 40 min. walking

Friday: 45 min. walking

Saturday: 15 min. walking

Sunday: couch potato

Monday: 70 min. walking

Tuesday: 40 min. walking

Wednesday: 85 min. walking

I wish you ladies a very sunny and fun week.

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Lia – Not according to plan

lilalia — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:13 +0000

Hello, gals! I know my strategy of getting over jetlag was a fine one, but like all good plans it didn’t work out. It took nearly six days before I was able to sleep at night. It was very frustrating to spend the evenings wide awake and finally get tired around 5-6 o’clock in the mornings. I didn’t manage to do anything other than a 20 minute walk each day. Still, that was something.

This week I have done 40 minutes of walking yesterday (Monday) and 60 minutes today (Tuesday).

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Lia – back in the saddle

lilalia — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:50:46 +0000

Hi! I was away for nearly two weeks visiting family and friends in Toronto and Montreal. This is to say that I am now safe and sound and back at home. It was a very busy three weeks (extending the visit to include the rushed week before the trip) and even though I didn’t post, mainly because of the lack of internet connection, this doesn’t mean that I haven’t been out walking. Actually, I’ve never done so much walking than I did in the last while. During this time, I think I was walking a minimum of one hour on a bad day and up to 4-5 hours on a good. All of it being done on concrete sidewalks, so this was hard on the hips and knees, but the new insoles really kept my feet in shape. Was our for three days before my visit because I broke the tip of one of my toes. A laptop battery fell down on it.

I’m trying to get over my jet lag with the help of a long early morning walk. Wish me luck that this works.

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Lia – Brisk beginning, slow end

lilalia — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:47:48 +0000

This week has been a mixture for sure:

Monday: 40 min. walking

Tuesday: 1 hr. and 40 min. walking

Wednesday: 1 hr. 20 min. walking

Thursday: 30 min. walking

Friday: 20 min. walking

Saturday: 15 min. walking

Sunday: no exercise

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Lia – Walking & stopping off at a café

lilalia — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:08:34 +0000

If I remember correctly, I told you about my favourite café that is located in a flowershop not far from where we live. Here is a slide show of photos taken last week…

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