Anyone care to join me in a 30 day walking challenge?

Nearly 14,000 today, I am definitely doing a few more walks than I would normally. 2x school run, 1x sports centre run, 1x allotment visit and 1x round to a friend's house this evening (where we consumed our own bodyweight of Indian takeaway )

My pedometer has finally came!

My pilates class is a Body Control one, the teacher is a former ballet dancer and very highly trained. There's usually only 4 or so of us so lots of individual attention.

Evening Imelda! I ordered some Birkenstocks at the weekend too, I've got an old pair that have done brilliant service, but it is time for some new ones. Glad your leg is feeling better, I used to see a chiropractor for my back pain, he used to acupuncture, but none of it really helped, getting orthotics and switching to Birkie type sandals was what really sorted it out, and now doing Pilates helps too (I go to a class for that too).

16,000 steps today! All in the trusty old Birkies, it feels so good to have my toes in fresh air after months of boots. 2x school run, walked to town and back, sports centre and back again for DD's ballet class this time and then round to a friend's house earlier this evening.

I only started the ballet class at Christmas, I have prolapses and have to take care how I exercise, this is ideal because it's low impact and good for posture/core strength, I'm enjoying it too, we have a good laugh at ourselves as we prance around in our ballet shoes (no tutus though!).

10500 yesterday, mainly walking round the shops, but also a mile round trip to take DD to her swimming lesson.

10700 today, 2xschool run, 2 x walk to DD's friend's house to drop her off / pick her up plus another 1 mile round power-walk to the sports centre for my ballet class . Legs are going to be stiff tomorrow having just had three weeks off ballet.

Wow Ballonslayer that's great!
I know what you mean about your legs getting stronger. I was able to walk upstairs without holding onto the bannister for the forst time in 2 years
Im still waiting for my pedometer to come..

Hello everyone!

Glad you have had some improvement with the ole leg, Cider.

I am coming to the end of my first week with my pedometer.

My total (well it will be more before I go to bed) for the week so far is . . . drumroll . . . 68,254 !!

However, I expected to do more steps today because we went to a theme park! You walk loads at a theme park don't you? OR SO I THOUGHT. . .

I feel like I have done loads of walking and am knackered but my total for today is only 6573 (so far) which is my lowest of the whole week, despite me being at my tiredest. My pedometer doesn't start counting steps till you do ten consecutive ones so I guess it didn't count lots of "queueing steps" as you just do two or three then stop again.

Nevertheless my average for the week is 9750 which is far higher than I thought I would manage. Just a shame I couldn't make it to 70,000 for the week so my average would be 10,000 a day

I haven't lost any weight but I FEEL lighter - I think my legs are stronger so it feels easier to move around. I noticed when I walked up the hill from the shops yesterday I didn't even think about stopping whereas before I always did.

So I am chuffed to bits after my first week. Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU for this thread that got me inspired.

Glad your leg is a bit better Cider.
I have bern walking but trying to avoid hills, my lungs are a bit dodgy at the moment and I don't want to make them worse.
I went for a swim on wednesday but think it was too much for me.
Going to walk the dog shortly.

THanks Cider, I'll have a look at those. Off shopping for shoes tomorrow too. How is your leg tonight?

Notcitrus - that's funny about Lidl. How did you damage your Achilles doing Pilates? I too am one of those people who seems to lurch from one injury to the next, but I get a lot out of my weekly Pilates class.

My Fitbit is registering 4500 tonight, but I did go for my power walk this morning without it on, from previous readings I think that will have been an extra 2000 or so, so that's not too bad. Back to term time routines on Monday so will be getting more routine walking in again with school runs etc.

What make are the over-pronator flip-flops? I need arch support too. I bought Croc flip-flops last year, they were extremely comfy but not supportive enough for my bad back. I wear orthotics in boots all winter, Birkenstock type sandals a lot in summer but struggle with actual shoes.

I've had the Accupedo free app on my phone for the last year and it's just been upgraded so it now sends me congratulations messages if I do 10,000 steps in a day. I've never averaged over 8k steps, which is partly because I don't get out much on weekends and walking in the house or playground rarely registers, and mainly because my phone keeps running out of charge. The app does produce lovely graphs though.

Managed it twice this week - if I take dcs to nursery and school and then go to work and then collect them, that's just over 10k steps, and turns out going just to school twice and also hitting 2 supermarkets is 10k as well. It used to not register in Lidl as the aisles were too short!
Only 7k so far today but need to go out later.

I keep injuring myself as soon as I do any other exercise, but thankfully have stayed able to walk much of the time recently (though much of the last year has had about a day a week in bed). Before that I was building up after a damaged Achilles tendon had destroyed my fitness (people kept recommending I do Pilates - which was how I hurt it in the first place...)

I live in Birkinstocks in the summer, I need the support.

I did post yesterday but on the wrong thread !
Have been very tired the last couple of days . Took the dog out today but walked on the flat and did 4700 steps.
Hope you get better soon cider.

Sorry to hear that Cider. Hope things improve soon.

I had a very sedentary day yesterday, that's why I didn't post. Housework and essay-writing in the morning, supermarket, more essay writing and coffee with friends in the afternoon and then an evening on the laptop meant a grand total of 2468 steps. Haven't left the house yet today either and no plans as such but the DCs are bickering and we need to go somewhere, this has been a long school holidays.

Beautiful, perfect warm spring day here! Walked at an extremely leisurely pace to a local art gallery and had lunch outside (inc a glass of rose) with two friends. Then we walked on a bit more at a very leisurely pace and went to a cafe and had an icecream . Then walked home gently in the sunshine. My pedometer is a cheap old piece of shite which keeps re-setting itself part way through the day, so I didn't wear it today and have no idea how many steps I did.

Had fab day though!