This is a newly added challenge… as I enjoy walking and trekking I decided to add a walking challenge for this year!
A personalised walking challenge…
Many people pledge to ‘Walk 1000 miles in a year‘ for various reasons but probably mainly for the excellent health and wellbeing benefits you achieve by regular walking. These include:
- Burns extra calories
- Builds stamina
- Strengthens your heart
- Reduces the likelihood of many serious diseases
- Keeps you active
- Improves your mood
- Its free
My spin on this is to walk 1050 miles this year… an extra 50 in my year of turning 50…
This is an average of 2.88 miles a day or 20.16 miles a week
I don’t have a fit bit or app or anything to calculate this accurately so I will just estimate the extra walking i.e. where I have chosen to walk rather than drive or take public transport or any specific walking or trekking I undertake.
For example, week 1:
- Mon: (New Years Day = couch potato = 0)
- Tue: walk to and from train stations (work journey) = 5 miles
- Wed: walk to swimming pool and back = 1 mile
- Thu: walk to town centre and back = 2 miles
- Fri: walk to and from stations = 5 miles
- Sat: walk to town centre and back = 2 miles
- Sun: organised walking club walk = 10 miles
Progress:
- Total for week 1 = 25 miles
- Average per day for this week (25 / 7) = 3.57
- Running total = 25 miles
- Miles left to walk in 2018 (1050 – 25) = 1025
Fifty at Fifty 