Not enough heart points

Posted on July 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Geese, heart points, Heat, Hot, Steps, strolling, Tired, Walk, Walking, Westport lake4 Comments

Walking in the almost 30°C heat, in full sunshine is uncomfortable and tiring. I’m not used to those temperatures here in the UK. We are basically lucky to get a few days of tepid sunshine in the summer and it generally heats up more in August.

So anyway, I have a small challenge with myself to do 5000 steps a day or hopefully more, and to get up to 20 heart points by walking faster than usual. But by the time we had walked round the lake I’d done around 4000 steps and 8 heart points, but I guess the heat slowed me down.

Tell me not to obsess about exercise, but I can’t help it, I wasn’t doing any really two years ago….

June’s walks

Posted on June 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Energy, heart health, June, local hill, month of walking, Steep, Steps, Walking1 Comment

My month of walking, the smaller circles are around 2000 steps, the medium ones 5000 and a couple of 7-10000. The big one was 15000?

Most of the walks were local, the hill we live on is steep and I’m walking more quickly so my heart points (energy used) has been good every week if not every day. I do feel a difference and I’m using the car a lot less which must be better for the environment. So I will carry on.

I have short legs

Posted on March 27, 2021March 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Challenge, Exercise, Feet, Fitter, Friends, Helping, Legs, Miles, Steps, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

I just checked my step counter and it came up with this for March. But I do have short legs so it’s not as impressive as you might think. Plus this is steps not miles! Anyway I’ve surprised myself. I think I’ve done 55 days since starting the 100 day walking challenge with my friends. I think I’m slowly getting fitter. My average walk is around three miles. I’m tired and aching, but I will keep going barring injury or illness. Still over 250,000 steps is not bad going for someone who was basically sedentary before that. Yes I was doing a few walks a week , but I think doing this has helped enormously. X

Today’s walk

Posted on February 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Blustery, Rain, Steps, the Gardeners Retreat, Tired, Walking, WindLeave a comment

Weeping Willow outside the Gardeners Retreat pub on our walk today. I took the photo because of the way the wind was blowing its fronds around. The clouds were scurrying across the sky and a pale pink glow was growing on the horizon. It was a warm walk, the rain spitted at the start but then fizzled out and we were walking in a buffering wind. In the end I only walked a short distance, around, 7500 steps, but that’s OK……

Will I do it?

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Days, Exercise, Hill, Life, Penkhull, Steps, Thinking, Time, Walking3 Comments

Another day, 14 so far, will I be able to do #100daywalkingchallenge? What happens when I get there, or trip up and twist an ankle. I hope I can be determined enough. My mind seems to be getting into a walking gear, I’m not as scared of walking as I was. I used to think walking a few hundred yards was hard. The best thing I did was to decide to walk up our steep hill on most walks, get the hard effort done at the start… It really helped me, getting through the pain… I might not be doing 10000 steps, but I’m doing my best!

And we’re walking…

Posted on February 7, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, doing it, Exercise, kilometers, Miles, Steps, thanks, WalkingLeave a comment

So this week I started a #100daywalkingchallenge with friends. Given that I don’t walk far normally I think doing an average of about three miles a day isn’t bad. Particularly since I have been doing a lot of uphill bits to exercise my heart more. I just think if I hadn’t been pushed by a friend to do it I never would have. The point is I was scared. I’d walked with friends before, but in the countryside, and they would leave me plodding on behind and laugh when I struggled to get over stiles because of my bad balance and short legs. My hubby carried on, but I gave up on it. I’m glad now that I have realised I can do it after all!

Uphill

Posted on February 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Exercise, Hills, Penkhull, Shattered, Steps, Stoke-on trent, Tired, Walking2 Comments

Five and a quarter miles! Help. I got to about 9000 steps and my friend said why not walk up the hill at penkhull! Note to self, do the hill at the start of the walk, not half way through it. Half way up I had to call a halt and we turned onto some flattish side streets. Then a gentle slope back downhill and about a mile on the flat back home…

Another one

Posted on January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Branches, Cold, Life, Mirror, Pattern, Photo, Snow, soil, Steps, TreesLeave a comment

This one works in a strange way, the steps form odd little triangles, it looks like there is a hole with soil layers, the branches shrink into the distance and the sprinkling of snow adds to the contrast. A slight hint of blue adds to the cold feel.

Hilly walk

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Energy, Exercise, Fitter, Health, Heart, Hills, Steps, Uphill, Walk, WalkingLeave a comment

Tonights walk. Up and down hill again. Called in a shop so carried four or five kilos home in bags. A few weeks ago I wasn’t doing much at all. Today I did over 7000 steps. I don’t know how far that is in miles, probably only two or three. It suddenly doesn’t seem as difficult as it did!

Yes it’s tiring, but after visiting the doctors yesterday I know they think I’m doing well. Fingers crossed that I can keep it up!

Pattern

Posted on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blank verse, Colour, Design, Layout app, pasta?, Photo, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Steps, TwistedLeave a comment

A twisted spindle,

Stone steps,

Red painted wall,

Chopped and mixed,

Add background smudges

Bend into shapes

Like pasta twists…

Multiply and flip

Till cooked

Into nine squares.

Then expand into four more.

Voilà

Pattern….

Mallaband-Brown

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