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(AKA: The Anti-Couch Potato Challenge)
Here is a challenge from me ... to ME! (Anyone else want to join in is more than welcome.)
I've gotten to the point where I refuse to take the stairs, get winded walking to the car and have surrendered what used to be the body of a US Marine, to what we used to call the category of the "sick, lame and lazy."
Today I decided that my slow, whiney, full-of-excuses self is done making excuses.
I just got back from my 1st lunch time walk. From the access door of my building, two times around our facility and back to the door is slightly more than 1 mile. My first trip, in jeans, t-shirt and tennis shoes took 22 minutes 11 and 2/100ths seconds. (Time shorthand is 22 : 11 : 02 , according to the convenient stop watch in my cell phone.)
My goals:
1. Stick to the route at least one time per week, so times can be compared.
2. On days where I'm not at work push the walk to 25 minutes.
3. The primary goal is to complete the walk 3 to 4 times per week (every other day.)
4. The interim goal is to lengthen the distance of the walk and maintain the max time of 25 minutes, except for when making the comparrison circuit. (At my best, I could run 3 miles in 19 minutes & 43 seconds, but that was in 1980. Lets shoot for 3 miles in under 25 minutes.)
5. First goal: Trim the circuit to under 20 minutes.
6. Subsequent goals: Make them up as I go a long, just don't stop moving the ARSE!
Anyone choosing to join in should feel free to set your own distances, times and paces. For me to try to keep up with you, or you trying to keep up with someone else, simply doesn't make sense. Try to keep up with, and improve on, yourself!
The only way to be sure you are not DEAD, is to keep MOVING!
EGG-ZACK-LY!
forbey
Here is a challenge from me ... to ME! (Anyone else want to join in is more than welcome.)
I've gotten to the point where I refuse to take the stairs, get winded walking to the car and have surrendered what used to be the body of a US Marine, to what we used to call the category of the "sick, lame and lazy."
Today I decided that my slow, whiney, full-of-excuses self is done making excuses.
I just got back from my 1st lunch time walk. From the access door of my building, two times around our facility and back to the door is slightly more than 1 mile. My first trip, in jeans, t-shirt and tennis shoes took 22 minutes 11 and 2/100ths seconds. (Time shorthand is 22 : 11 : 02 , according to the convenient stop watch in my cell phone.)
My goals:
1. Stick to the route at least one time per week, so times can be compared.
2. On days where I'm not at work push the walk to 25 minutes.
3. The primary goal is to complete the walk 3 to 4 times per week (every other day.)
4. The interim goal is to lengthen the distance of the walk and maintain the max time of 25 minutes, except for when making the comparrison circuit. (At my best, I could run 3 miles in 19 minutes & 43 seconds, but that was in 1980. Lets shoot for 3 miles in under 25 minutes.)
5. First goal: Trim the circuit to under 20 minutes.
6. Subsequent goals: Make them up as I go a long, just don't stop moving the ARSE!
Anyone choosing to join in should feel free to set your own distances, times and paces. For me to try to keep up with you, or you trying to keep up with someone else, simply doesn't make sense. Try to keep up with, and improve on, yourself!
The only way to be sure you are not DEAD, is to keep MOVING!
EGG-ZACK-LY!
forbey
