92 Days of Summer Day 68

 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

92 Days of Summer Day 65

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

92 Days of Summer Day 63

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!! 

92 Days of Summer Day 62

So yesterday I got my medal, well today Yasmine got hers.

Proud!!

I know I've said it before, but this girl is amazing!

She got all upset around sports day because she wasn't the fastest and she knew she wouldn't win any of the races, honestly I know the feeling, I could never win at anything in PE and you know what it made me feel useless at all of it, there was a couple of things I was good at and that was trampolining and swimming. 

But we weren't assessed on either of those things and PE always felt like if you couldn't run fast or play at a game you weren't good at it, you had no potential in it.

So I understand.

But... I've been learning something. Fastest doesn't mean you don't get there, this little girl could probably out walk half her school! She's already in her level six for swimming and they haven't started swimming lessons yet in school. These two things alone, she is outstanding in, if she was assessed on walking and swimming... Yet she wasn't and it made her feel bad. So I did what I could.

I entered her into the race at your pace kids "race" 25 miles over the course of August, and you know she does most of my walking with me so she did way over the 25 miles, but the medal did the trick. I wanted her to know that persistence and determination gets you a medal too. I didn't make it easy, had she not done the miles I wouldn't have given her the medal! 

She beamed! Because she knew she could get a medal too! She had a medal a real one! And maybe one day she will get one for her swimming maybe even walking or something else, but I don't want her thinking that physical activity is just something she does because her teachers said she has to so she does (because I taught her obedience) 

My Girl!

Don't get me wrong, I am not of the opinion that every child should get a medal at sports day, its important that kids feel they excel in the areas they do and I know that means other kids get overlooked but its life and that sound awful and clinical,  but its also life, its how stuff works, BUT its my job to also build her confidence in the ways I can. I don't want her feeling useless in the areas she excels at but doesn't get seen or assessed in school. 

When I've been tired, she's been tired, she's asked if I got my steps in if she could help, what an awesome little girl I have! She deserves the medal!

Steps today: 12,353 
Steps so far: 881,896
Steps to go 118,104




Next Weightwatchers!!
weigh in today!

Loss this week: 3 1/2
Total loss: 68 1/2
so I would LOVE to loose 75 pounds on or before my 1 year at weightwatchers which is 3 weeks away! What do you think? one week 2 1/2 and 2 weeks 2? wouldn't that be awesome? That would be an average of 1.5 pounds every week! I think I can... maybe... we'll see!


As for today I am shattered I think I'm going to bed, hoping to sleep better then I have been!

92 days of Summer Day 61

I haven't written in a couple days, its been all go here and I've not had the energy to write! 

So Phil is unwell, he's now on antibiotics but its been a hard 6 weeks in some ways, a weeks holiday Joseph being ill twice and Philip is still ill, so in some ways I'm looking forward to school starting to get back into it (and its not that far away now!)

So yes, a lot more emphasis on me has just meant I've been tired and not able to find a second to think and write!

And again, I signed up to race at your own pace again, again completing the 150 mile challenge, this I completed this time last week so I probably could have done the 200 miles one but I didn't want to push myself too much! You can sign up here
I'm doing something different next month for it, I decided I'm going to put in for the 25 miles one, but instead of walking running them, so I'll continue walking but the medal will be for running... hopefully! Its good motivation!


As for the steps I'll record them now!


Day 59: 11,268

Day 60: 15,063

Today:  15,885 

Steps so far:  868,917

Steps to go: 131, 083

92 Days of Summer Day 34

Motivation!

I am one of those people who need motivation! As if doing it for charity isn't enough of a motivation I really did want to challenge myself with the walking in July.

I have a friend who a while back, recommended virtual races, where you can walk/run and set yourself a challenge to receive a medal and a certificate  (the compression top was optional). So added this as extra motivation. You can set the amount you want to do 25 miles. 50 miles 75, 100,125,150 200 (I think that's what they were) and as well its not frowned upon to walk it instead of running the rule is run or walk.

Today in the post these came! And its strange when you have a physical reminder of an achievement (though there's nothing wrong with virtual ones I love it when Fitbit pops up telling me what I've achieved) but there's something physical and tangible about this!

I put in for August too so watch this space....

I've never been athletic, in any way, I'm good at swimming I was good at trampolining and I'm good at walking at my own pace (the thing is I have asthma so this can change on a day to day bases), but I've never got a medal for anything, plenty of certificates... Its like a badge of honour! Yes In July I did a little over 150 miles in total but that was the goal I set myself (it was 175 miles, I maybe could have pushed it to 200 but this was over 5 miles every single day! I think I did well doing this!)

As for the rest of the day.... well you know how Joseph was sick yesterday? Well Philip was sick today. Funny thing was, I saw to Joseph, Phil didn't have a lot of contact?! But by the way I'm not complaining I don't want to get sick so.... Today was hard, because Joseph was just screaming and in some kind of evil toddler mood! I've never seen this kid like it! 

So you can imagine I didn't get much sleep the night before I didn't get much sleep last night so although I have done some steps its no where near where it normally is, but thats okay I'm not obsessing because next week we're on holiday Phil is off work... I'm sure we'll walk tons!

Steps today 10,322
Total steps  473,590
Steps to go 526,410