January Walk-A-=Thon

This topic was created for the January Walk-A-=Thon challenge.

Interesting challenge picture! – does this mean we can only count those miles where we walk backwards? :-)

I am trying to get myself to go walk every day and I stumbled across this challenge. I think it may be the ticket. 240 miles is quite a few so I will have to get it in gear.

Survey question: why are you walking? Why not running, or elliptical, or something else?

To get started: I can’t bike until my wrist heals from the last biking fall. And most other exercises were out because of a knee injury, although that’s been improving.

I walk because I think it is a great workout and it is something I fit in here at work with at least a mile walk at lunch. : ) It is too cold to run here (today -15 F) so walking around our skyways during lunch is a great way to get a workout and not freeze outside. Glad to hear your knee has been improving pktechgirl.

pktechgirl – For me walking is mostly about convenience. I can walk out my door and follow the road to see where it goes at any time. My daily commute is almost as fast to walk as it would be to get a car, bus, or train. My gym has a 15-minute limit on the machines at peak-times which can become frustrating when its busy. That said, I am trying to convert some of my road walking time into gym time this year.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? Earlier it said I walked about 24 miles and I was in fifth then I enter the 2.52 miles I walked yesterday and all of a sudden it is up to 48.

It counts from when you joined the challenge – how many miles you’ve walked. In this case 16 days worth.

Yeah but for some reason today my whole Gyminee page has been acting weird. It hasn’t been adding my workouts right. I may have to just come back tomorrow and try again.

Okay I think I finally got my miles in right and my Gyminee fixed. Thanks for the post pharangese.