Monday 5th September 2011

Well we are half way there!  We set out on 25th July 2011 to count 2 million steps jointly on our pedometers by Christmas.  And after only six weeks we have logged 1 million steps.  We knew we needed 5,000 on Saturday and when we got back from the weekly supermarket trip we had done it!  Photo to prove it.....

Completing the 1 million so soon has surprised us but doing this is certainly encouraging us to look for ways to walk more.  I have attached a graph (now I have at last learnt how to attach photos there will be no stopping me) showing the number of steps we have walked each day and you can certainly see the peaks.  Last week on that lovely sunny Friday, we went to Burghley Horse Trials.  Although we saw a few horses (it was dressage day) we went particularly to walk the course - we both registered over 11,000 steps walking around past the 33 huge fences..  And of course the shopping!  There were certainly more shops than there were 10 years ago which was the last time we went and such a huge variety of goods on sale.  But again, although we walked virtually every where together and certainly going around the course we registered a similar number of steps, going around the hundreds of shops David registered 3,000 more steps than I did!  The only reason i can think of is that he stomps around and I glide or mooch as one friend has said! We know the pedometers work the same as we have swopped and David still registers more than me - but those of you who knows him knows that he rarely keeps still

However the important thing is the money we are raising and I am pleased to say it keeps going up thanks to all our friends.  

We have now raised £760 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and £735 for Water Aid.



More next week
Jean (and David)