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I challenge myself to walk and run 1000 miles during 2019 - not including any mileage done while 'on the clock' at work....

I challenge myself to walk and run 1000 miles during 2019 - not including any mileage done while 'on the clock' at work.

(As of 23rd December 2018 I'm on 939.2 for the year - plus over 1600 miles whilst 'on the clock'!)

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Sunday 23rd June - end of week 25 (posted a day late as I couldn't get decent photos in the light last night, and I wanted to include them!)

Miles completed this week

Running - 6.27
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 0

Other than work, the only exercise I've had this week was the Crazy Cow 10k on 23rd. Organisation was chaos before the date (asked the same question to the organiser on a regular basis, and was always told "I'll get back to you when I have the information" - still hadn't had an answer by the day of the run!). But the route (changed with less than a week to go due to a footbridge being declared unsafe for all use, and being closed by the council) wasn't bad. Chip time was a few seconds faster than my watch, which said 1:19'22 (I'm coming in at around 1:20 at all the 10k runs I'm doing at the moment, so much where I expected to be).

No medal for this one !!! But I did get a cow bell (I signed up because of this being a bit different). I also - for the first time ever - purchased a race T-shirt (loved the design), and also two cow bells from previous years I'll now have to go out and run around home or work to earn (one is a 10k one, the other from the Crazy Calf 1 mile fun run which I'll probably do a 5k to 'earn' as there's no distance on it).

Year to date

Running - 122.03
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.53
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 144.97

Total miles for year to date - 349.10
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 476.71 miles in 174 days.

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Sunday 16th June - end of week 24

Miles completed this week

Running - 0
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 21.01

I've come home today after spending just over a week in the Lake District (went up after work on 8th).
On Monday we walked around Derwentwater, which was 10.45 miles.
Had a lazy day of nothing on Tuesday.
By Wednesday afternoon my legs were complaing about being static (I normally walk about 8 miles a day at work), so we dodged the rain to do a very short circuit to see if a horse was still in a local field (he's been there for years) - he was, and 0.79 miles done.
On Thursday we did the first part of a walk we normally do when up there, then a stretch I've done a few times before, but my fella doesn't think hes' done before, and then did the home leg of another walk we normally do - another 4.01 miles,
Friday we did some pruning in the garden (we always do some jobs for the owners when we stay there in return for the accomodation), so no mileage clocked up.
Saturday we walked over to Grasmere and back (from Elterwater) to get our Gingerbread fix, and that added on another 5.76 miles.

Year to date

Running - 115.76
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.53
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 144.97

Total miles for year to date - 342.83
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 457.53 miles in 167 days.

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Sunday 9th June - end of week 23

Miles completed this week

Running - 0
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 9.01 miles.

My day off work on Friday saw me doing a 4.42 mile circular walk from home in the rain with leaking waterproofs! I had to make contact with several firms and do some jobs around home, but nothing was going well or to plan so I got out to chill for a while, Today was a 4.59 mile circular with my fella at the start of a week off work for both of us - hoping to clock up some recreational walking miles (and possibly even some running) this week :(happy)

Year to date

Running - 115.76
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.53
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 123.96

Total miles for year to date - 321.82
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 438.36 miles in 160 days.

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Sunday 2nd June - end of week 22

Miles completed this week

Running - 3.12 miles. Race for Life 5k today. Watch only showed 4.66km when I crossed the finish line, so I ran laps of the grassed area beyond it until it read 5.01 !!
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 23.67 miles.

Recreational walking was made up of a 5.83 mile local walk with my fella on Bank Holiday Monday, and lots of walks of verious lengths on my day off on Thursday - 1.8 miles to my closest train station (earned my 2km Spiderman pin), 1.4 miles from the station at the other end of my train ride to meet friends (earned my 1km Hulk pin), 8.81 miles from Blackpool to Lytham, 1.89 miles from the end of the walk to the train station to see off some of my friends and then to my daughter's house (earned my 3km Captain Marvel (? I'm not well up on superheroes) pin), 1.18 miles from my daughter's house back to the train station, then a longer (2.76 mile) route home from my local station (to earn my 4km Captain America pin). So a total of 17.83 miles for the day - leaving home just before 6:45am and getting home a touch before 8:55pm.

Year to date

Running - 115.76
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.53
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 114.95

Total miles for year to date - 312.81
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 419.18 miles in 153 days.

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Sunday 26th May - end of week 21

Miles completed this week

Running - 1.9 miles - Short run before work on Wednesday. 22 minute run in memory of the 22 innocent lives lost in the Manchester bomb attack on 22/5/2017
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0.31
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 32.5 miles

Recreational walking was made up of a 6.64 meander on my day off (Tuesday), 4.44 miles to A&E after work on Thursday and 4.79 miles home again via a different route due to time of night (I managed to get myself bitten on the back of my right hand by a dog so had to go and get a tetanus shot), a 5.82 'warm up for the weekend' walk with my fella after work on Saturday, and a 10.81 mile walk on Sunday.

Year to date

Running - 112.64
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.53
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 91.28

Total miles for year to date - 286.02
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 400 miles in 146 days.

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Sunday 19th May - end of week 20

Miles completed this week

Running - 6.31 miles - Anderton Boat Lift 10k. Evil course that starts on a steep uphill, then hits another at 9.6km. But it finishes with a steep downhill, which meant I got my first ever sprint finish and first ever flying feet photo (actually got 5)
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 0

Not a fantastic week, but had my worst week ever at work so I'm just happy I made it around the 10k run today! Not only did I spend the whole week on loan to a different office (at least they left me on the same round all week, which meant I got to grips with it), we also had loads of electoral leaflets to deliver which made for loooooong days. My 27.5hour working week became a 45.75hr week :O

Year to date

Running - 110.74
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 58.78

Total miles for year to date - 251.31
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 380.82 miles in 139 days.

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Sunday 12th Map - end of week 19

Miles completed this week

Running - 6.22 miles - 4th RunThrough Tatton Park of the year for me
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 5.48 miles - as taking part in the Tatton Park run means we don't need to pay £7 parking and the weather was nice, we decided to take a packed lunch and spend a couple of hours exploring parts of the venue after the run
Total miles for week - 11.7

Year to date

Running - 104.43
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 58.78

Total miles for year to date - 245.0
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 361.65 miles in 132 days.

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Just a 1.55 mile swim before work on Tueday this week - so nothing to be added to my challenge totals. Things seem to be calming down on the family front now (and daylight is getting longer), so I need to start making more of an effort. Have a 10k run next Sunday, so that'll be something to add on

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Another week with nothing to declare for the challenge

But I did cycle 9.56 miles and swim 1k on top of my work walking, so at least I managed some extracurricular activities

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Sunday 21th April - end of week 16

Miles completed this week

Running - 0
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 3.44 (I was sent to the office in the next town up from mine on Monday)
Recreational walking - 5.96 (Elterwater to Grasmere and back for my second lot of gingerbread this year)
Total miles for week - 9.4

Year to date

Running - 98.21
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 67.57
Recreational walking - 53.3

Total miles for year to date - 233.3
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 304.11 miles in 111 days.

Let's hope this nice weather stays to let me get some catching up done - but please turn the thermostat down a degree or three so I stand half a chance of increasing my running miles

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Ooops! Realised this evening I went to bed before I updated on here on Sunday! I've been out of it a bit for the last 7-10 days, while I try and get a medication balance right. I'm trying to find the lowest dose I need for my sciatica to stop my back aching all the time that doesn't bring on the headaches at a level paracetamol can't cope with. I finally seem to be getting somewhere, but am still living in hope my physio appt comes throught sooner rather than later.

Sunday 14th April - end of week 15

Miles completed this week

Running - 6.24 (RunThrough Tatton Park)
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 4.43 (was sent to an office I normally cycle to/from, but as they wanted me to start early I got the bus in and walked home)
Recreational walking - 7.09 (a circular walk to visit a number of shops that I only wanted for 1 or 2 items from each)
Total miles for week - 17.76

Year to date

Running - 98.21
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 64.13
Recreational walking - 47.34

Total miles for year to date - 223.9
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 284.93 miles in 104 days.

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Sunday 7th April - end of week 14

Miles completed this week

Running - 6.22 (Stroke Association Resolution Run)
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 3.39
Recreational walking - 1.79 (school run to collect 2 youngest grand-daughters on my day off work - it was wonderful playing tig with them on the way back when we used a footpath well away from cars)
Total miles for week - 11.40

Year to date

Running - 91.97
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 59.70
Recreational walking - 40.25

Total miles for year to date - 206.14
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 265.75 miles in 97 days.

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MedalMadUK commented on this post about 2 months ago

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Another week of nothing done!!
Post was heavy this week, which meant I worked at least an extra hour most days. And I'm not sleeping well due at least in part to my sciatica, so just too tired on my days off to do anything.
I did however force myself to go for a swim after work on Thursday evening. Needed to do 58 lengths to complete 2 miles for the month, but was hoping to do 68. Ended up completing 80 - my longest distance in as long as I can remember for one session, so I'm happy to settle for that as this weeks achievement.

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Sunday 24th March - end of week 12

Miles completed this week

Running - 3.11 - first visit to a Great Run Local on Thursday evening
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 23.79 (10.29 on Monday, 7.67 on Wednesday, and 5.83 today)
Total miles for week - 26.9

Year to date

Running - 85.75
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 56.31
Recreational walking - 38.45

Total miles for year to date - 194.73
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 227.40 miles in 83 days.

Finally managed a decent week, although I'd have like to have managed more - especially on the running side of things.

Started with a 10 mile walk on Monday to earn some bling that was raising money for an armed forces charity
The walk on Wednesday was a lot of stop/starting, as it was a circular to include a number of shops I wanted to visit for 1 or 2 items from each - but not enough (even all together) to merit taking the car.
The walk today was up in the Lakes, as we've been away for the weekend. We meandered from Elterwater to Grasmere to get some gingerbread - a trip we do every time we get up there....

I also swam 1800 metres on Thursday morning (72 lengths of the pool)

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Sunday 17th March - end of week 11

Did absolutely NOTHING for this challenge this week

Still, I'm off work now until Monday 25th so am starting the weekintent on doing some catching up.
‏ — feeling shocked

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Sunday 10th March - end of week 10

Miles completed this week

Running - 7.53 (1x 2k, 1x 10k)
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0.56
Commute walking - 0
Recreational walking - 0
Total miles for week - 8.09

Year to date

Running - 82.63
Warm up & Cool down walking - 14.22
Commute walking - 57.59
Recreational walking - 14.66

Total miles for year to date - 169.1
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 189.04 miles in 69 days.

Another slow week. Woke up with the worst migraine I've ever had on Wednesday, which meant nothing done for 2 days.
My 10k today was slightly slower than last month when I had a chesty cough - my sciatica hasn't been behaving well this week, and decided to flare up badly about half way round. I still completed though, so I'm happy with that.

I also cycled 13.49 miles this week (commute to and from work on Monday)

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Sunday 3rd March - end of week 9

Miles completed this week

Running - 5.62 (2x 2k, 1x 5k)
Warm up & Cool down walking - 1.75
Commute walking - 3.18
Recreational walking - 7.11

Total miles for week - 17.67

Year to date

Running - 75.1 (120.9km - still a way to go to my 500km medal!)
Warm up & Cool down walking - 13.65
Commute walking - 57.59
Recreational walking - 14.66

Total miles for year to date - 161.0
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 169.87 miles in 62 days.

Done better with my mileage this week, and am actually surprised I'm not further behind where averages say I should be.
Plenty of year left to make up the 'missing' 9 miles

This week I also swam 1.18 miles (76 lengths of a 25 metre pool, so 1900 metres)

My Dad's due home from hospital on Thursday, which also happens to be my day off work. So I'm hoping to get a short run in before heading up that way to give my Mum some support - lots of jobs done around the house to enable him to come back, several of which he was adamant he didn't want doing so he's likely to get into a bit of a mood. I'm booked in on a 10k race next Sunday, and it'll be interesting to see how it goes as it's the same course I did last month while I had my chesty cough.

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MedalMadUK commented on this post about 4 months ago

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Another quiet week for walking and running - just 4.36 miles to add.
I need to get my records properly updated so I can see just how much I've started to fall behing target - lots of things are falling by the wayside as I'm spending days off work doing jobs for my Mum while my Dad's been in hospital (it's been just over a month now).

I did manage some other exercise though - just over a mile of swimming (66 lengths of a 25 metre pool) after work on Thursday, and 13.48 miles of cycling (to and from work on Friday). The chesty cough and sore throat seem to have finally gone which makes me feel more postive about getting active again.

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??? Really confused as last weeks update seems to have gone AWOL

Last weeks report only added on 3.74 miles of commute walking on the Friday, and a 10k run on the Sunday (a live event I wouldn't have done had I not paid for it just before my chesty cough started up on 1st Feb)

This past week has just seen one short commute walk of 1.67 miles - shocking really !! Need to get back to swimming, cycling and running this next week, as I've got several medals to earn before month end :(sweat) Just hoping the final remnants of my cough won't hold me back any longer.

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Sunday 3rd Feb - end of week 5

Miles completed this week

Running - 1.25
Warm up & Cool down walking - 0.58
Commute walking - 13.33
Recreational walking - 0

Total miles for week - 15.16

Year to date

Running - 63.24
Warm up & Cool down walking - 11.9
Commute walking - 44.7
Recreational walking - 3.19

Total miles for year to date - 123.03
Target for year to date (based on 1000 miles in year) = 93.15 miles in 34 days.

Pretty shoddy week - saved only by one day of commuting on foot! Just one short run braving the icy pavements on Thursday to complete 100km in January. The snow on Wednesday meant I wasn't driving and buses were likely to be hit and miss, so I walked to and from work. My colleagues declared me to be mental......

Still a few miles in hand though.

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