September 2006
Monthly Archive
Song Walk Day 65, Thursday September 28, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 29 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Another late night walk. Spent the day working on a $100K grant for the Theatre, and some day-job work I didn’t get done on Thursday, because I was working on some of the grant stuff then.
We finished up around 9:45, called the Texas Roadhouse, found out they were open until 11, and floored it home. Tossed the cats inside, fed them, went out and ate large chunks of meat and ribs, wandered over to Pathmark to pick up a Toys R Us gift card and a birthday card for our nephew who’s 9. The card made me laugh out loud, a velvet covered black and white spotted cow, with holes for the other spots. Inside it said “Holy Cow! It’s your Birthday!”. Cheesy, tacky, tactile and fun, the perfect card.
By the time we got home, and got out of the car to go walking, it was on the dot of 11PM. We got back around 11:30. Slightly faster walk tonight, because I didn’t go in to get a jumper, and froze! It got down to 41 degrees, completely freezing. Cold weather=great for walking.
The pedometer says 3549 steps, or 1.12 miles.
Song Walk Day 64, Thursday September 27, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 28 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Not sure if this is the latest we’ve gone out walking, but it’s definitely in the top three.
Left the house at 11:10PM, got back around 11:45PM. Didn’t have a chance to walk before work, swam and gymmed from just after work until getting home just before 9PM. THen the shit (continued to) hit the fan with the Theatre which sucked up all but 30 minutes of a quick trip to Pathmark to pick up a bunch of canned stuff on sale.
Pissing down before we left, but stopped just after we started walking, which was nice. Pedometer says 3929 steps, or 1.24 miles. 11 steps off 1 and a quarter miles. Got a little thing going for the even quarter of a mile.
I’m stubborn with my walking. It’s the one exercise that I’ve managed to not have taken away from me recently. My gym and swim seem to regularly fall off when work gets busy. But I’m doing the walk, every day. It’s past 9 weeks now, 63 days. I’m persistent and stubborn and bloody minded. And pragmatic – I’m getting my own treadmill before the snow and ice starts up!
Song Walk Day 63, Wednesday September 27, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 27 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
It’s still called a SongWalk, even if I don’t get to listen to my iPod. Didn’t get to walk before work, even though I got up early. Our business stuff, client stuff, and friend tech support stuff meant I really just had enough time to get to work on time.
Tonight we didn’t do the complete walk, as a group of guys came walking towards us; a fair way off, but still we decided discretion, valour and not walking directly into trouble at 10:45 at night meant a sharp right about 3 blocks before we’d planned was an OK idea.
We walked for between 25 and 30 minutes, having left the house at 10:35PM, and being back just around 11PM. Pedometer says 3138 steps, or .99 miles. (Bollocks! Just 14 steps off a mile! I could have walked around the driveway for those few steps. Yes, I did sit here making the pedometer click and tick over to a mile, just to see how close I got!)
We were due to go for a walk around 9PM, after my MWC Fall conference dinner meeting in Wildwood. But. I’d been running slightly late to get to the carpool by 4:30 this arvo, and forgot to put my headlights down, and whoosh, 4 hours later, no power to my car. Jeff jump started the car easily, but we thought a good 45 minute drive around to be sure my battery was retaining its charge might be the best way to go.
We’re still going to test it before he heads out to work before me in the AM!
Song Walk Day 62, Tuesday September 26, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 26 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Again, no chance to walk before work. Tech support for Jasperdyne clients, and Theatre phone calls.
Walked after the gym, with Jeff, 9:30PM – 10PM. Same walk as per usual. Pedometer says 3384 steps, or 1.07 miles
Song Walk Day 62, Tuesday September 26, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 26 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Again, no chance to walk before work. Tech support for Jasperdyne clients, and Theatre phone calls.
Walked after the gym, with Jeff, 9:30PM – 10PM. Same walk as per usual. Pedometer says 3384 steps, or 1.07 miles
Song Walk Day 61, Monday September 25, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 25 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Didn’t get a chance before work. 6:45PM – 7:20PM. Pedometer says 3863 steps or 1.22 miles
Did our usual walk looping around at 5th and Broad, with a brief intermission to take photos of the Halloween decorations a couple of neighbours have up on 10th street.
It was nice to walk that route in the daylight, I got to see the sunflowers I don’t usually see at night, and didn’t trip over the crooked footpath (tree roots under the concrete). A varied walk is a good walk.
Song Walk Day 60, Sunday September 24, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 25 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Web work most of the day, plus threats of mid-afternoon/early evening thunderstorms meant we went for a later walk.
9:01 – 9:32PM. Pedometer says 3436 steps 1.09 miles.
Our standard walk, loop up and around to the new neighbourhood market on 5th and Broad and then back.
Song Walk Day 59, Saturday September 23, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 23 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
Left the house just around 9PM. Got back around 9:30PM.
One of our standard walks, down to the Junior High School in a long loop back, with a brief stop to take pictures of the Halloween decorations around the corner. They have Death guarding their door! I saw them putting it up driving home from work on Wednesday night. The Mum, the Dad, and their teen goth son. I love that the Goth son got into the Halloween decorations.
Tried the pedometer a couple of ways, waistband of the jeans, front pocket of the jeans, and then Jeff’s suggestion, the back pocket. That worked, with my every 100 steps checking with the talking button.
We walked 3736 steps or 1.18 miles.
Song Walk Day 58, Friday September 22, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 23 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
I’m getting into the idea of walking to do short errands. Get in some exercise, with a goal and a purpose other than just the walking.
Left the house at 11:26, walked to our bank to deposit a couple of checks. Got there at 11:49. Spent 5 minutes in the bank, and then walked down from there to my day job, another 25 minutes (including several stops at the film festival location and the local photographer’s store).
37.44 (21.57 to the bank, 17.38 to work)
4.17 Street Life – Randy Crawford (Jackie Brown Soundtrack)
2.34 Tom’s Penis – King Missile vs Suzanne Vega (diNbOT www.dinbot.com)
2.44 In the Rain – Madness (Absolutely)
3.23 Fox on the Run – Sweet (Billboard Top 100 1976)
3.16 From the End of the World – ELO (Time)
3.43 Down Under – Men at Work
4.24 Slipping Away – Dave Edmunds (Anthology 1968 – 1990) ( Half listened to before the bank, half after)
4.18 When Love Comes to Town – U2 (Rattle and Hum)
3.07 Get Gotten – Ben Lee (Awake is the New Sleep)
2.47 This is Pop? – XTC (Fossil Fuel (Singles 1977-1992) [IMPORT] )
2.59 Burning Love – Elvis Presley (30 Number 1 Hits)
2.03 Song2 – Blur
The pedometer didn’t seem to want to work, it said it was just over a mile. I know how long a mile takes me to walk, and I had some speed here. I’m going with at least 1.5 to 2 miles.
Getting the time to walk to work, that’s not always an option in the morning. Especially when I arrive, and I’m red-faced and sweating, that’s not the way I really want to start the day.
I’ve thought about walking to the gym, which is about 25 minutes, and then catching a 30 minute swim, followed by a shower, and then to work. Then I think about how it’s not so easy to get up early already, and how I’ll need to carry with me whatever I need, and it doesn’t seem to fit me. I’ll try it on a Saturday first, see how that goes.
I’d like to know how long everywhere that I’d go in this town on foot would take me. That’s a long-term project.
Song Walk Day 57, Thursday September 21, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 21 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
8:56 – 9.34AM 38 minutes Pedometer says 4580 steps or 1.45 miles
2.47 I Fought the Law – Green Day (Single)
6.56 Xanada (Direct WXtend Mix) – Olivia Newton John/ELO
2.52 So I fall Again – Phantom Planet (Phantom Planet)
2.19 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – Bette Midler (Billboard Top 100 1973)
5.21 Discoth̬que РU2 (Pop)
3.05 Need you Tonight – Inxs (Kick)
3.52 Holiday – Green Day (American Idiot)
4.03 Mysterious Ways – U2 (Best of 1990-2000)
3.25 Beer – Asylum Street Spankers (Spanker Madness)
1.57/2.36 Shadow Dancing – Andy Gibb (Billboard Top 100 – 1978)
Had to drag myself out of bed this morning, went to sleep around 2AM. Clearing off Tivo is not a job, I need to remind myself of this. I watched The Biggest Loser, while having a late night snack of Lays Potato Chips. Yes, the irony is clear. I need to have some good quick food available and make sure I eat properly, even when the night gets disrupted with having to go off somewhere and do washing.
5280 feet per mile, i.e. 63,360 inches. My pedometer programmed pace is 20 inches a step, so a mile has 3168 steps in it for me.
4580 steps took me 34 minutes, i.e. 135 steps a minute. That seems like a lot, but I did a quick count, and I do around 300-400 steps in an average 3 minute pop song, which works.
A mile should take me around 23-25 minutes. I should be able to do that every day.
The two 5k (3.25 mile) charity walks should be doable, even if I don’t keep up that pace, in no more than 90 minutes each. Based on Saturday’s 3 mile walk, which wasn’t done at a fast clip for the whole time, 90 minutes is well doable.