Walking Every Day & The Gauntlet 2.0!

The biggest thing I’m excited about is how EASY this feels to incorporate into my schedule! Especially if I want to call friends and have nice, juicy conversations, I can get both social and healthful time at the same time! Man I’m really pleased by this right now!

Overall I feel like I totally fucking rule! I walked 86 miles in the 30 days of DK30! (10/13 to 11/15). A few notable insights

• I really need to track EVERYTHING more. I completely bailed on tracking/posting for the last 3 weeks - mentally I figured “I just walk every day and then don’t on Saturdays so… nothing much TO track”. As you’ll note in the daily posts below, some days were WAY longer than others, and I even punted on walking a few times. At the time, I thought “gah you fell behind but that’s okay just try to make up for it on a later day” etc. By the end, I thought that I’d done only a so-so job but, WOW was I wrong! I can’t believe how regular I was about doing physically healthy things! In this very moment, I feel SO pumped! So, in the future and for many of my current projects I should really push hard to do simple, tiny tracking things (google sheets probably) just to PUMP MY EGO UP!

• I need to beat myself up less. Though I am a cheerful human on air, I tend to have a very very harsh inner voice/monster. I genuinely thought I was not doing that great of a job with regularity. Funny how my brain LIES to me. Doing the above tracking should be very helpful.

• I’m a bit embarrassed to say but, because of the weight gain / physical inactivity during COVID, my knees did NOT like supporting my new weight LOL. The backs of my knees were swelling up which was causing a good amount of discomfort while streaming (and hence, the motivation to seek out a new chair as hamstring pain + swollen knees do NOT feel good). I think I should I have taken more opportunity to rest or plan a gentler onramp of physical activity.

• The biggest thing that helped me loads was calling friends or doing work calls while walking. I’m really hoping to get a better noise filter on my phone and take more work calls while walking outside. I wind up with SO many hours of meetings a week that layering that w/ physical activity would be SUPER RAD. Even if not, I found that I was more social during the DK30 because I constantly sought out friends to call and keep me company while walking :D. Best of both worlds!

• Fri 10/23 - 71m
• Sat 10/24 - Off Day
• Sun 10/25 - 80m
• Mon-Wed - Very weird wrench thrown in the mix - we were notified we might be exposed to COVID so I became super paranoid and stayed completely inside for 3 days D=.
• Thur 10/29 - 104m
• Fri 10/30 - 47m
• Sat 10/31 - 34m
• Sun 11/1 - 54m
• Mon 11/2 - 89m
• Tue 11/3 - 59m
• Wed 11/4 - 84m
• Thu 11/5 - 64m
• Fri 11/6 - 72m
• Sat - Off
• Sun 11/8 - 62m
• Mon 11/9 - 52m
• Tue - Punted! No walkin
• Wed 11/11 - 81m
• Thu 11/12 - 82m
• Fri 11/13 - 85m
• Sat 11/14 - 32m
• Sun 11/15 - 80m
• Mon 11/16 - Nothin!
• Tues 11/17 - bb walk I was tired 20m
• Wed 11/18 - 53m

• Wed 10/14 - 92m walking
• Thu 10/15 - 45m
• Fri 10/16 - 81m
• Sat 10/17 - 53m
• Sun 10/18 - 41m
• Mon 10/19 - No walking (lmao)
• Tue 10/20 - 78m
• Wed 10/21 - 61m
• Thur 10/22 - 42m

SO MUCH WALKING YEAH!

Wednesday I walked for 90 minutes! I didn’t get up early the way I wanted to this morning but I still walked 40m tonight! So far this is 4mi on Wed and 1.8 today! I feel like tracking it and also hooray exclamation marks