21 for 2021: week 2
Week 2/2021: week of 11 January I’m currently working through chapters 7 and 8 of the Change Journal (thing 4). Chapter 7 is about trying to do things that you want to become new habits for 66 days. I’m working on two at the moment: the morning pre-work routine...
12 of 12 March 2016 – Part 2
Part 1 of this post, in which I try to get into the habit of an earlier bedtime, is here. The story continues . . . I decided that, even though I wasn’t feeling so good, I’d get up and go for a walk this morning. Slabs suggested I...
12 of 12 April 2015
Today was the Derwent Valley Autumn Festival, which is one of the biggest events held in the Valley each year. The weather forecast wasn’t sensational, but there wasn’t any rain or wind forecast, so we had everything crossed that it would be a nice day. It was a chilly...
CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge Day 6
Today was the day I’d decided to bust my 12.45 km walking record and aim for 15 km. I expected it would take less than 3 hours and be about 20,00 steps. I left the house just after 5.30 – a full half hour after I go out on...
CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge Day 5
This was a fairly uneventful day. As I dragged myself out of bed at stupid o’clock this morning, all I could think of was that this was the last day I’d have to get up quite this early. 5.5 km walk this morning, the morning school run, a walk...
CARE Walk in her shoes challenge: Day 4
My feet hurt! The blisters I thought had settled down from a few weeks ago are rubbing again and I don’t like it. I might try some different shoes for the next day or so. I’m now more than half way through the challenge and have met my step...
Walk in her shoes challenge: Day 3
It’s Day 3 of CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge. I managed another 6 km walk in under an hour this morning. I have no idea of what a decent pace is, but it takes a fair bit of effort for me to maintain a pace of just...
Walk In Her Shoes Challenge: Day 2
Day 2 of the Walk In Her Shoes challenge and the weather forecast wasn’t looking promising for getting out and walking a lot. It was still fine in the morning though, so I wanted to do as much as I could before the rain arrived. On this morning’s walk...
Walk in her shoes – Day 1
So this is it. The big week of walking for CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge. I know I originally said I was going to aim for 20,000 steps a day and then if I reached that (relatively) easily I’d revise it to 25,000 for that day as...
12 of 12 March 2015
Thursday was a pretty normal work day for me. Farewell morning tea for a colleague, who I’ve worked with on and off for almost 10 years. Lots of coffee. Walk at lunch time. It got to 20 degrees in the city, so it wasn’t too bad at all. I...