Daily Steps–November 22-28, 2010

Ok, this was definitely a time period of rest!  Between the boys being home for the week and Thanksgiving, I really didn’t walk around too much.  I did do other things that could be considered exercise like painting a wall and hauling junk around while cleaning, but it wasn’t enough to count in my steps.  You don’t seem to make constant walking motions with these things so they don’t get picked up as steps by the pedometer.  Though I admit most of my time was spent just relaxing!

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November 22

• Steps: 2,084
• Miles: 0.6
• Kcal: 9

November 23

• Steps: 3,535
• Miles: 1.0
• Kcal: 17

November 24

• Steps: 4,408
• Miles: 1.3
• Kcal: 17

November 25

• Steps: 2,827
• Miles: 0.8
• Kcal: 11

November 26

• Steps: 2,767
• Miles: 0.8
• Kcal: 15

November 27

• Steps: 1,498
• Miles: 0.4
• Kcal: 6

November 28

• Steps: 2,705
• Miles: 0.8
• Kcal: 15

Totals for the week

• Steps: 19,824
• Miles: 5.7
• Kcal: 90
  

Daily Steps–November 15-21, 2010

This past week was much better!  I actually worked out three days during the week doing Leslie Sansone’s 2-part walking videos on RealAge.  Two other days I wracked up the steps by volunteering at the elementary school hauling books back and forth in the media center.  The last two days were for rest, though I did manage to go through some papers on Sunday.

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November 15

• Steps: 5,235
• Miles: 1.5
• Kcal: 93

November 16

• Steps: 8,088
• Miles: 2.4
• Kcal: 104

November 17

• Steps: 6,747
• Miles: 2.0
• Kcal: 109

November 18

• Steps: 6,211
• Miles: 1.8
• Kcal: 55

November 19

• Steps: 5,228
• Miles: 1.5
• Kcal: 110

November 20

• Steps: 1,796
• Miles: 0.5
• Kcal: 7

November 21

• Steps: 2,508
• Miles: 0.7
• Kcal: 10

Totals for the week

• Steps: 35,813
• Miles: 10.4
• Kcal: 488

Daily Steps: November 8-14, 2010

November 8

• Steps: 3,575
• Miles: 1.0
• Kcal: 58

November 9

• Steps: 7,399
• Miles: 2.2
• Kcal: 97

November 10

• Steps: 2,871
• Miles: 0.8
• Kcal: 17

November 11

• Steps: 2,512
• Miles: 0.7
• Kcal: 12

November 12

• Steps: 3,456
• Miles: 1.0
• Kcal: 30

November 13

• Steps: 1,426
• Miles: 0.4
• Kcal: 2

November 14

• Steps: 1,658
• Miles: 0.4
• Kcal: 4

Totals for the week

• Steps: 22,897
• Miles: 6.5
• Kcal: 220

Daily Steps: November 1-7, 2010

This is my first daily steps post.  In the past week, I’ve learned 6,000 steps is not 3 miles…at least for me…it’s more like 2 miles.

November 1

• Steps: 4,365
• Miles: 1.3
• Kcal: 53

November 2

• Steps: 6,320
• Miles: 1.8
• Kcal: 74

November 3

• Steps: 1,959
• Miles: 0.5
• Kcal: 11

November 4

• Steps: 6,686
• Miles: 2.0
• Kcal: 66

November 5

• Steps: 4,134
• Miles: 1.2
• Kcal: 44

November 6

• Steps: 1,785
• Miles: 0.5
• Kcal: 11

November 7

• Steps: 3,005
• Miles: 0.9
• Kcal: 19

Totals for the week

• Steps: 28,254
• Miles: 8.2
• Kcal: 278

Well, the totals are not the best, but not bad considering it’s the first week.  Good to know basically where I’m starting from with my normal routine and work from there.  My goal is to eventually do 10,000 steps every other day, or 3-4 days a week, with the other days doing some other activities or resting.

How do you compare with your walking?  Do you have any goals related to health and/or fitness?

Staying Fit By Walking

I absolutely love Leslie Sansone’s walking video that I found through RealAge.  I admit that I’ve used it off and on, but it’s the one I always seem to go to and the only exercise video that I’ve been able to complete entirely from the very beginning!

Today I saw a post on RealAge’s twitter account that mentioned a walking challenge put on by Leslie Sansone called 21 Days Before Thanksgiving Challenge.  It starts today.

While I’m not quite up to keeping to a challenge, I have been wanting to keep track of my steps.  According to RealAge’s Twitter post, 3 miles equals about 6,000 steps.  So far today I’ve done 2,796 steps and I didn’t even start keeping track until I had already dropped one boy off at school!  I don’t think that is too bad considering I’m racking up the steps just doing what I do around the house or running errands.  Though I did complete another Leslie Sansone video.

What I like about the pedometer that I have is that it only counts actual steps…not the little micro steps you take while completing a task.  I should know!  I watched it while I was folding the laundry and filling up the dryer.  It only started counting my steps after continuous walking like when I was actually walking to other rooms to put the laundry away.

So I’m hoping to drop a little note either here, on Twitter, or Facebook to let you know how many steps I’ve done.  Perhaps I’ll create a post once a week to highlight the week’s results, but Twitter and Facebook my daily steps.

Nice Day at the Park!

Today was so nice that we decided to go check out a park.  It’s called the Lehigh Rail Trail and it’s a 3.9 mile (one-way) paved trail used mainly for walking and biking.

We found some interesting things as we were walking.  We had no idea what this was, but it looked intriguing enough to take a picture of it!

Maybe it’s an old table, or a trap door!  Or just a piece of rotting wood, which is probably more likely!  LOL!

This looks like a nice little hiding hole for some sort of animal family!  We didn’t want to get too close in case they weren’t friendly!

We stopped at the 1.5 mile mark and turned back towards our car by way of a side street next to the path.  We ended up doing a little more than 3 miles in total.

This was the view at the end when we were finished.

And this was the bridge we went over to see that wonderful view!

Even with all of the wonderful sites, it was a bit much for everyone!  The boys were “dying” saying it was child cruelty to make them walk and that we were bad parents for making them do it.  Heaven forbid!  I guess I should let them stay at home in front of the computer and television instead!  NOT!

My feet were on the verge of blisters by the time we stopped, but it was a wonderful walk!  I wonder what interesting things could be found from the other 2.4 miles we didn’t walk.  It said at the beginning that there was an “830 foot long elevated boardwalk over the wetlands” at the end of the trail.

Maybe next time we’ll start from the other end!

Since we were hot and tired after all that walking, we decided to stop someplace for some shakes and ice cream.  My oldest had a mint cookies and cream shake, which he said reminded him of the dentist office.  My youngest had a chocolate chip fudge sundae.  My husband had a banana shake, and I had a vanilla shake.  And cold drinks to go with them!

It was a nice day that has thoroughly worn me out!

What are you doing this weekend?