Still plodding along (metaphorically and physically) while everything else is all a-whirl!
Day 11, Wednesday - interesting. Decided to try and get my steps as close to bang on 10,000 as possible: made it to 9,996 and did four huge, careful steps across my bedroom. Still 9,996. Did it again. Still 9,996. It took a good seven or eight attempts before my phone finally caught on and rocketed up to 10,002. So if my phone is only counting six out of every twenty-odd steps, then I’ve been way underestimating my daily totals, right? Right? Please don’t take this away from me. Officially 10,002 steps but am conservatively estimating about fifty thousand in reality. Day 12, Thursday - SMASHED it. Got to eleven thousand by midday. Shattered, windswept, kind of hoping I can get steps-off in lieu tomorrow but know I can’t really. 12,312 steps. Day 13, Friday - “I WANT TO BE SEDENTARY,” I was wailing at 3pm as the rain lashed on the windows and I’d done about 3000 steps. “I don’t want to stick to my goals, I want to give up on them, it feels GREAT.” 10,651 steps, most of them extremely reluctant. Day 14, Saturday - I am now only measuring things in steps; miles and minutes have lost all meaning. 10,112 steps. Day 15, Sunday - went for a walk with Mum in which we picked our route by flipping a coin at every junction. Ended up a million miles from home and called Dad to come get us in the car. 11,871. Day 16, Monday - have realised I can do virtually all my steps in an hour and a half or so if I really knuckle down and don’t amble. 10,021. Day 17, Tuesday - I’m very lucky to live in the middle of nowhere and that most of my walks are either done around the garden or on paths where I barely see another living soul, much less come within six feet of them. 10,087 self-isolation-friendly steps.
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