92 Days of Summer Day 92

So here I am at the end of the road!

Lots of you already know I passed the 1 Million mark earlier in the month hence why there have been no updates, but what have I been up to since?

1) I reached my goal amount for the money raise to Diabetes UK and surpassed it, I've raised £150! Thank you everyone who contributed small and large amounts I can't tell you how important it is to raise all the money we can for such important causes!
2) I've also walked another 260,969 steps! So thats a total of 1,260,969 Steps in three months!
3) I actually did start to run! And I've stuck to it, three days a week I've been either running outside or on my treadmill I got for my birthday and I'm about to start week 5 of the 0-5K challenge, and I'm half way to achieving it according to my app! Fridays training included 5 minute walk warm up 3 minute run 2 minute walk, 5 minute run 2 minute walk 2 times, 3 minute run then 2 minute walk then a 5 minute walk cool down. Honestly I thought it was impossible but I did it, now next week, week 5 day 5 minute warm up walk, one  5 minute run 3 minute walk then a six minute run an a 3 minute walk then a five minute cool down... it might be my breaking point, but who knows what I'm capable of now!
4) I've also got a couple of friends together and we're going to do a 5k run/obstacle course called a colour run in June, So its something fun and cooky for me to look forward to but something to train towards too, I don't think it matters if you run or walk it but I want to be prepared 
5) my body (especially my legs and bottom have toned massively!) I'm not loosing lots of weight but I'm not gaining either and with my muscles building up again this is a real plus! So I'm not too concerned my weight has come to a standstill at the moment.
6) I got Phil running too! He's just finished week one of the zero-5k I think when we decided to get the treadmill it really gave him motivation to do something. 

I was going out on a night, I'd get Joseph off to sleep then head out, thing was there was a couple of nights it was approaching dark and I realised it really wasn't safe for me to be out running on a night, Phil agreed and we looking into treadmills, I actually got the one we have second hand off Facebook marketplace it was local so we went and picked it up at a really awesome price!It was an early birthday present to me too! Yasmine has had little goes on the treadmill but we haven't used it in front of Joseph and he seems to be ignoring it for now!

Also I've been going to weightwatchers for over a year now! 

When I went back initially, I didn't think I would achieve much, especially since, this for me is the run up to Christmas, but I didn't do it half heartily I did actually try. So much has changed in that year, what I eat and how I eat, as well when I've noticed things about my diet.
1) Gluten is not my friend. So the beginning of September I also stopped eating gluten, well what happened was I made the recipe for the 2 ingredient dough and although it is delicious and completely fine to eat, I was getting massive headaches and stomach cramps after having it, I would be ill, and I noticed it was a repeat pattern with Gluten and dairy. I'm not 100% Gluten free yet, a couple of sweet treats do cut in but I am getting better at it and I would say I'm 90% Gluten free. My bread, my wraps, my pasta my stock cubes are all gluten free.
2) Dairy is a little different. I did swap my milk over to unsweetened almond 'milk' immediately and I didn't eat much yogurt anyway so that been cut out that alone has been a huge improvement! however I would say that I'm probably about 60/40 on diary products. When I'm in the shop and I'm buying stuff for me the chocolate is the dairy (higher in smartpoints too so I don't eat as much) my milk is dairy free, but my cheese is still the eatleen cheese and the reason being is that if thats all I'm eating it doesn't have a bad effect on me, there is no noticeable difference, so it stays in for now. Also if I'm out I will have a dairy ice cream, but some of you might have seen I said I felt sick after eating some on Thursday night and I didn't eat the whole tub I was given, I gave about 1/4 of the tub to my brother in law to finish off. So I'm slowly converting my dairy, but then again I think that is an intolerance rather then the gluten which just makes me feel ill! My back aches my stomach aches my head hurts it awful! So I really have avoided gluten.

So over all its been an interesting year. 

An even more interesting three months,

I'm not finished yet, but I am at a milestone. 

Keep you Posted

Lorna x

92 Days of Summer Day 70, TODAY IS THE DAY I COMPLETED MY 1 MILLION STEPS!!!!

I DID IT! I'm exhausted, a little bit: crazy injured my feet hurt but I did it!!! 
So these are the final figures from each day I know they are a little different from the ones published but these are the final figures each day from my fitbit!

1 Jul: 12,583   
2 Jul:16,108       
3 Jul: 13,282
4 Jul: 12,989
5 Jul: 15,461
6 Jul: 12,301
7 Jul: 12, 642
8 Jul: 12,055
9 Jul: 13,299
10 Jul: 13, 940

11 Jul:  17, 469
12 Jul: 12, 486
13 Jul: 13, 875
14 Jul: 14,951
15 Jul: 12,507
16 Jul: 12,720
17 Jul:16,246
18 Jul: 13,634
19 Jul: 12,611
20 Jul: 19,019

21 Jul: 13,690
22 Jul: 16,087
23 Jul: 12,044
24 Jul:12,711
25 Jul: 12,035
26 Jul: 12,607
27 Jul: 12,589
28 Jul: 12,011
29 Jul: 17,564
30 Jul: 17,268
31 Jul: 14, 509

1 Aug: 13,100
2 Aug: 16,875
3 Aug: 10,350
4 Aug:15,275
5 Aug: 17,585
6 Aug:12,046
7 Aug:22,137
8 Aug: 15,248
9 Aug: 20,846
10 Aug: 16,159

11 Aug:  12,813
12 Aug: 2,706
13 Aug: 15,201
14 Aug:17,578
15 Aug: 16,537
16 Aug:15,771
17 Aug:14,197
18 Aug: 25,205
19 Aug:10,054
20 Aug: 12,684

I DID IT!!!!!

21 Aug: 14, 228
22 Aug: 12, 972
23 Aug: 17,620
24 Aug: 17,207
25 Aug: 9,383
26 Aug: 3,056
27 Aug: 15, 675
28 Aug: 11, 268
29 Aug:15,063

30 Aug: 16,511
31 Aug:12,463
1 Sept: 14,326
2 Sept: 7,974
3 Sept: 17,625
4 Sept: 14, 753
5 Sept:13, 360
6 Sept: 22,489
7 Sept: 13,345
8 Sept: 18,177

TOTAL: 1,004,057

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Steps today: 13,188
Steps so far: 985,723
Steps to go: 14,277

what I should be doing!

This is mentally INSANE! I can not believe how close I am to finishing this! I can't believe it!
And you know something honest?

I have been shattered!
There are days I've more or less decided I've had enough for that week and I won't do many more, but then I do!

I've learnt that my body can do it, but also to rest my body that's important too.

I'm no longer afraid of the school run despite it being a 2 round trip (4 miles a day) although I did do this sometimes in deep snow at the beginning of the year so... hey even the rain is better then snow!

Since the beginning of the year when I really decided to step up on my exercise, its made a huge difference, I'm not saying I don't have my off days were I feel like its all for nothing... I feel big and bloated and I wonder why I do it at all,
If you told me that by September I would be attempting running, I would have told you you're crazy!

One of our friends said to Phil it was amazing what I was doing and Phil said he'd always admire my ability to choose a goal and just go with it , when I made up my mind to do it I just do.
I love my Phil for admiring it so much, the truth is I rarely make up my mind to do something, and I make it sound like a bad thing. Let me explain...

I think about something, I think about doing things, I pro and con doing it, I'll ask people, I'll research and still sometimes I don't start either because the pro/con has tipped it for me or something that has needed my attention has happened in the meantime and I loose the original motivation to do it.

But I've had this walking bug for almost 2 years now, Joseph probably can't remember a time I didn't walk with him (and probably why he insists on going "out" even if its raining.

I did a 10,000 step challenge last year for a week 10,000 steps for 7 days, it was pretty amazing but then I stopped for a while afterwards and didn't get back on until the new year. I have been slowly moving towards this kind of goal for a while, now I would love to say I will continue to walk and run, but truth is come winter and its freezing outside I can't guarantee anything! 

I know I want to keep my fitness up, even in the winter, it may involve jumping around my living room but I do want to do it!

However 1 million steps in 3 months, well I will have done it in 70 days, does that make it easy?

No.

Its hard, its hard to keep yourself motivated, its hard to complete even at this stage I'm thinking "I could have the weekend off...." and it wouldn't matter I'd still complete in time.

Is it worth it?

For the charity absolutely! One of my friends donated today making my goal but I don't want that to be the end of my fundraising I would love to raise more! (So by all means click and donate!!) 

Is it worth it for me?

As a challenge, it has been a challenge! It would be a challenge over three months, I think there are people who have done it quicker, I think there will be people still doing it, but its a huge commitment, everyone who has done it its a huge commitment and whether it took a week a month or the entire time WOW! Aren't we amazing!

I don't think I would be this kind of intense for my own training though, I think I would give myself more time off (and evidently I could have) definitely taking things a little easier from now on, but also changing the pace with my running (yes I'm continuing that at least until the end of September!) 

Its taken a long time to get here, so although even to my husband it seemed like I said "I'm going to do this..." and it came out of no where, really its something I have been building up to, I've been researching and working on and a challenge like this which has been so long term and needed so much of my time would have been impossible even when I did the walking for a week last year.

I joked with a distant relative that I would be running the GNR with her next year...

Although I have seen a colour run I'd love to do next year... But I think I would need someone to do it with, it would be a little depressing on my own... any takers??

https://www.colorobstaclerush.co.uk/about-the-event.html

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 Haha can you see I have a running spot? It actually kind of ideal it is quite flat and close to home so you can see where I started on both work outs (the red marker and the yellow and green are where I've walked and run going round as part of my training I don't know if you can see there's more then one line its because I was going round and round and the dark blue is the finishing five minutes.

Looking further down you can see my fitbit caught onto the running (as sports again) and when I stopped to catch breath is where it rest the recording hence why there is so little time between recording each one. But I got to look at the stats in 15 minute intervals 0.5 miles 0.9, 0.6,0.9, 0.6=3.5 miles! Oh yeah!!! 

So I'm not going running tomorrow so this is my first week of running done  
Sat: 2 miles
Mon:  3.5 miles
Tues: 1.3 miles
Thursday 3.5 miles =10.3 miles
WOW!!! Thats just in running!! Wow! I am going to smash that aim of 25 miles running for the medal! 31.11 miles on my feet since Saturday! But the next medal up is 50 miles, I don't think I would manage that, we have Yasmine's and Phil's birthday this month... well we can see! I can change it if I need to, that is the good thing about virtual racing!

You can see too I definitely do more then walk when I do my running (the one later in the day at about 2pm is a lot smaller then when I'm running at strength! 

Having said that I am shattered!! Some of you know I've been asking friends about recommendations for hurting hip bum leg area, silly me just kept going!! walking and walking and walking! 

This is my LIONESS POSE! 

Until

Steps today: 22,127
steps so far: 972,173
Steps to go: 27, 827

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No picture today I'm afraid just the stats!

Well I did both School runs and if anyone has any super easy ways of pushing a pram up a hill I'm listening! It is so HARD! and I'm not looking forward to doing that in the cold or the rain! My word! And no, getting the bus up the hill... is really counterproductive!

Poor Joseph fell over and scraped both his knees! My word one of them in particular was bad and he's just the little sort of fella you feel bad for!

I know my time of the month is round about now, my fitbit told me it was due today but yesterday and today I've had mind blowingly painful back, tummy neck... Oh my word! Seriously! It hurts and I'm sure I've put on ten pounds! I feel bloated and ill with it!

Today is a bad day! I hope I feel better for it tomorrow... I doubt it if past monthlies are anything to go by.

steps today 13,348
Steps so far   950,034
Steps to go 49, 966

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Yes, I am mad, yes I ran down to school and yes thats drops of sweat on my forehead and in my hair!

As for the rest I walked, it was only just over a mile, but oh my goodness my legs! They feel so heavy! Like led! Tomorrow I'll be walking and not running!
And I'm shattered! So tired! I think I'm going to bed very very soon, although that didn't work yesterday! So you never know I might be here a little while yet!

Steps today: 14,536
Steps so far:936,469
Steps to go: 63,531 

I am so excited! I should be finished my 1 million step challenge by the end of the week!!

I say this because I am both shattered and can't wait for a day off and so proud of what I've done!

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I must be mad!

All I'll do now is go brush my teeth and go to bed! I am cream crackered!!! And is it any wonder!

So today was mad! That day before school is back and I got to do little walks in the day but nothing major so I was really chuffed to get out for a run!

So, You can see in the last photo here this is probably the flattest part of Stanley so its probably the easiest part of Stanley to run! So I was running round and round, honestly I'm glad in one way that it was drizzling and no one else was really around, I felt like an idiot...

So you can see my fitbit recognised it as (originally it said 'sport' which I thought was funny) so I changed that one to run, and then you see it recognises I change to walking (which I did I started to walk home) almost made it home and realised I hadn't ran far enough to cover 2 miles (because I'm not doing it every day because Phil isn't always in on a night so I have to work around that) so you can see I made shifted a run going through the housing estate, but that top run on my fitbit, it auto recognised it as a run! That's right people I official ran! Not fast, but I ran! and yes they are in my steps today!

Sorry I didn't write yesterday but it was Sunday and I didn't do all that much but I did get under the 100,000 mark like I wanted to!

Steps for Yesterday 7,974
Steps today: 17,167
Steps so far: 921,475
Steps to go: 78,525

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I can't believe its September! And today was my first day trying to run!

Well I say try!  Asthma is not my friend at times! You can see it says "very intense" for most of it and I think it ended up being more then a mile. But not too bad for the first day! 

even though I've been doing this for a while, walking this is, it was still a step up and a hard one! 

When I was walking back home from my run my legs felt like jelly and I've been super hungry! 

I'm not going to run tomorrow because you know its the sabbath but I'll try again on Monday!

So I hope this is evidence enough that something faster then a walk happened!

I did my actual steps along side with this so this is the stats including the run!

Steps today: 14,077
Steps so far:  896,083
Steps to go:  103,917

If I don't do 3,918 steps tomorrow something has gone wrong!
 So remember I'm trying to get a mile in of running for my 25 miles over the month race at your pace 25 even though I'll walk further, This should motivate me to at least try!!