Writing for a possibility

Getting to a number

The last time I wrote this many blogs (298) in a year was in 2011, and only once have I written more blogs and that was way back in 2007, so, this is some sort of notification of an achievement.

It was in March that I found myself writing at least one blog a day until I broke my stride in August when I was dealing with an upsetting stalking activity. It is my hope that it is now behind me, as the stalker did decide to call themselves off their obsession, just at the time that I lodged a report and obtained a case number from the police.

Maybe it can be done

Since then, I have tried to write a number of blogs to match the number of days in the month, even if I do not write every day. It is not an easy task, you try to have completely formed ideas or good inspiration to put something down and I know I am not always successful.

This blog for instance is just a self-congratulatory blog that is not even a record. If I were to do that, I will have to write another 103 blogs in the next 62 days. It is possible, and it would probably take Brian feeding me the lines to make a muddle and a jumble of incoherence that might pass for a blog.

It's walking and it's working - II

Getting it done early

Just over a week ago, I decided to start putting in a lunchtime walk exercise to take the burden off trying to meet my 10,000 steps in the evening into the night. At first, I was satisfied with getting about 6,000 steps in, so that whatever I did later filled up the quota easier and the extra was just a boost on my activity.

However, on Sunday morning before church, I had done over 10,000 steps that when the day was over, I was just 231 steps short of 30,000 steps, it should not have taken much more exertion to beat the most steps of 31,687 steps that I set on the 13^th of September.

Useful results to celebrate

Four weeks ago, I wrote about the fact that all my exercise was just walking and it was working, I am losing weight which has fallen from 88.2 kg to 80.9 kg today, I am sure the girth around my belly button has reduced too, the prominent and ironically named love handles are literally non-existent and I am breaking other personal records in the process.

Blog - It's walking and it's working

For instance, on Monday and Tuesday, I got my 10,000 steps during my lunchtime walk, then yesterday, I did 7 kilometres in 56’47”, this morning, having walked 11.76 kilometres by the time it was a few minutes past 8:00 AM, the first 7 kilometres were done in 58’33”, until yesterday, I had not been able to fit 7 kilometres into an hour.

The other amazing thing was I also broke the 4,000 steps in 30 minutes barrier, I stepped out at 4081. All this I did in the pouring rain and with much gusto. My goal is to bring my weight below 80 kg, though, I can’t convince Brian of taking it down to 75 kg.