Walking in her shoes 2016 – 1 week to go
I’ve lost my way a bit with my training for the Walk In Her Shoes challenge this year. In previous years I’d set myself a gradually increasing step target in the weeks leading up to the challenge and do everything I could to make sure I met those goals,...
Walking (imperfectly) in her shoes – 2016
It’s almost March, and that means it’s time to dust off the walking shoes and start training for the Care Australia Walk In Her Shoes Challenge. This will be the third year I’ve participated in the challenge, which will take place between 8-14 March. In 2014, my first year,...
Walk in her shoes wrapup
Walk In Her Shoes is over for 2015. I’ve had a great time taking part, despite the blisters or callouses or whatever they are causing me some problems over the week. I’m not sure what’s going on there, but maybe if I walk a bit less in some different...
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...
Week in review 9-15 March/Walk in her shoes update
This was the last week of my training for CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge. Tomorrow (16 March) is the start of the challenge, and I’ll be aiming to do 25,000 steps a day every day for the next week. The training hasn’t been part of the challenge....