Walking Squares Finale

It’s all over, Becky has posted her final Walking Square giving us A Reason to Walk.

Not that I needed one, but I thought I’d summarise my walking achievements during November – because I have an Apple Watch that tells me everything – all the time!

• I walked 26 of the 30 days in November
  • On the other four, I went for a ride on my bike
• I walked a little more than 130 km while exercising
  • That’s an average of 5 km per day
• I also added an additional 120 km after exercising
  • That’s an extra 4 km of incidental walking
• Altogether, that’s a daily average of 9 km in total
  • Not bad for being semi-retired
• In this past week:
  • I’ve walked an average of 6.2 km while exercising
  • And averaged well over 10 km per day
    • I’m pretty happy with that
• When I go for a ride, on average, I cover 10 km
  • Not much by some standards, but enough for me
• On my busiest day, I walked 12.23 km (16,629 steps)
  • Yeah, I was tired the following day
• And, regarding that little badge of honour – it popped up on my Apple Watch on Nov 26 because I set a new record for burning the most amount of energy while out walking. Yeah!

–⋅ o ♥ o ⋅–

While my watch tells me all sorts of things, it also tells me that yesterday was day 705!

Woohoo! What’s 705 you ask?

That’s the total number of days in a row that I’ve found time to exercise.

Dean gave me my Apple Watch for Christmas in 2020, and it has encouraged me to change my ways – and change them I have.

On Boxing day this year, I will reach the milestone of exercising every day for two years. Sometimes that’s a ride on my bike, other times it’s a workout with light weights. I’ve even been doing (or, trying to do) Tai Chi – following along to a YouTube video.

(I even did ‘something’ when I was sick albeit a very slow walk on my treadmill.)

But for the most part, and I’m only guessing, I believe that 95% of the past 705 days, I’ve put on my shoes and gone for a walk, and I will keep walking because I feel better than I have in years.

Who knows what type of stats I’ll have racked up come this time next year.

–⋅ o ♥ o ⋅–

This is my last entry in Becky’s November Squares Photo Challenge – Walking Squares.

Take a moment to read Becky’s Never Stop Walking post, it’s a wonderful Squares gallery.

Kilometres to Miles conversions