Tassievore Eat Local – Weeks 3 and 4
The Tassievore Week 3 challenge was to support a business that uses local produce. I didn’t explore this as much as I’d have liked to over the week, mainly because I was focused on walking as much as I could for the Walk In Her Shoes challenge. Even...
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...
Walk In Her Shoes – Day 7
Well, this is it – the end of a journey that started back in January when I signed up to do CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge for the second year. Since then I’ve been gradually increasing my daily step goal from 13,000 in January to 25,000 for...
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...
Tassievore Eat Local Challenge Week 2: Grow something
I used to live in my vegetable garden. I’d quite happily spend all weekend in there, get totally engrossed, completely lose track of time, and occasionally even get something to eat from it. Then we moved back to Tasmania, had a child and my passion for gardening disappeared into...
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...