Category: walking

Point to Pinnacle: Truganini Track

Sunday 12 August (97 days to go) Not far from my house is the Truganini Track, which is a 2.1 km medium grade bush walk from the Cartwright Reserve on Sandy Bay Road up to the Mt Nelson Signal Station, an elevation of 350 metres. Ever since I found out...

Point to Pinnacle part 3

A backlog of posts about my Point to Pinnacle experience, being a not overly fit, desk-bound, not-getting-any-younger casual walker.  Friday 3 August (106 days to go) I’m going to try to follow the 12-week training plan they have suggested for the event. So that means I’ll start it in...

Point to Pinnacle Part 2

A backlog of posts about my Point to Pinnacle experience, being a not overly fit, desk-bound, not-getting-any-younger casual walker.  Wednesday 1 August The Point to Pinnacle entries opened today. I thought I had set myself up a reminder at 7.00 am so I’d remember to go in and enter...

Point to Pinnacle part 1

A backlog of posts about my Point to Pinnacle experience, being a not overly fit, desk-bound, not-getting-any-younger casual walker.  27 July 2018 I like to walk. I go for a 20-minute walk every morning and aim to walk at least 12,000 steps every day. Occasionally, I sign up for...

Silence

Today I picked up a copy of the free magazine published by Penguin Books, underline, which had a feature on a book called Silence: In the Age of Noise by the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge. I had never heard of Mr Kagge before today, but according to the magazine,...

Accountability – Week 7

Here are last week’s results. 8 glasses of water 4/7 12,000 steps 7/7 10 min morning walk 7/7 Meditate 7/7 Breathing (3x a day) 2/7 No sugar 6/7 No alcohol (M-T) 3/4 Screens off 9.30 (M-T) 3/4 Bed by 10.00 (M-T) 3/4 Bed by 11.00 (F-S) 1/3 Daily gratitude...

More accountability

After saying I was going to post my habit tracker once a week, I promptly forgot the next week. Tsk. So here are the next two weeks of my faltering progress: 21-Aug 28-Aug 8 glasses of water 7/7 7/7 12,000 steps 7/7 7/7 10 min morning walk 6/7 7/7...

Accountability

Since my last post seven weeks ago – I can’t believe it’s been that long – I’ve been quietly plugging away at maintaining some habits that are slightly healthy. The no sugar plan is going well. Apart from a dash of maple syrup on my Sunday morning pancakes, which...

Challenge 7 – 30 days of yoga: overview

Friday was Day 30 of 30 days of yoga. I did it! I gave up my morning walks most days to make the time to do yoga in the mornings, and reduced my daily step target to 12,000. I missed reaching it on nine of the 30 days but...

Stepping on the cracks: Day 45

If you’ve been following my Travelpod blog, you’ll know that we’ve just got back from a family holiday in Victoria and South Australia. As you might have suspected, my attempt to holiday-proof my routines and continue the Stepping on the Cracks project was a spectacular failure. I ate more,...