f4f3 | Stats Are My Friends

Apparently in the last four weeks I've walked 172km, burned 45,277 kJ, and have an average daily step count of 12,838. So it's not surprising that I've lost some weight, and that I look a bit more toned.

There's a weekday logistics challenge here. Walking 5 miles a day takes up almost 2 hours. Typically I leave for work around seven, and get back 12 hours later. I like to sleep for at least 7 hours a night. Of the five hours remaining, I need at least half an hour to get ready in the morning, and there's time in there to eat dinner.

My trick at the moment is to park a mile from the office I'm working in, and try to get out for a 40 minute walk at lunchtime. It's not a perfect plan (typically that amounts to about 6-7k steps, leaving me a couple of miles to do at night) but it is working - just. Yesterday was actually a personal best. I went over 20,000 steps for the first time since this started. That was a combination of walking between offices and to pick up a parcel at lunchtime, which gave me my 10k, and then walking down to Byres Road to meet a friend for coffee. On the way home I realised I was on to break 18k, and then that if I took a long way round I'd get above 20, so I did. It meant I got home after 11, and I have a feeling that the warm weather, sunset being around 10, and my not having had any alcohol all contributed.

There's no walking time scheduled today, though, so I need to break that logistics problem all over again. And I'm not going to do it at this desk...