Walking To Work

[BAKERS DOZEN]

So proud of our daughter. She lives on her her own and manages quite well with just the one salary coming in. At Christmas her friend asked her if she would like to go abroad for a holiday but she did not think she could afford it. She will not take money off us even though we offered. She looked at her monthly budget and decided that the one thing that could go was her monthly train pass so from January she has walked to work and back which is 14,000 steps there and 14,000 steps home, all measured on her FitBit. She also walks between 6-8,000 steps in her lunch hour. Her total steps this week from Mon am to this lunchtime is 131,000 steps. Needless to say that next month she is off abroad with her friend. In the process she has lost over 3 stones and several inches off her waist. The people she works with have been so impressed that they have bought FitBits and now have a weekly competition to see who can do the most steps. She currently lives in Birmingham but when she lived back up north she would regularly walk from the other side of Oldham to Manchester University where she worked and then walk home again each evening. Mr BD has now decided that we must start going out for a walk every day but we'll be doing a lot less than that I can assure you.

[Quoi]

10,000 steps is about 5 miles isnt it - so she is walking more than that every day each way ? wow - hats off to her.

[murraymints]

walking is so very good..fresh air..exercise etc

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Think it is about 7 miles. If anyone knows Birmingham, which I don't, she lives in Erdington and works near Edgbaston so she goes across the cityy centre I think.

[Tilly2]

How long does it take?

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Think it takes her about one and a half to two hours. She did not enjoy it when all the snow and ice was on the ground as that took her a lot longer but she persevered.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Just a quick update as I have received an email from her saying that she has got home and has done 149,518 steps since Monday am. Two of the girls have done over 100,000 steps, one lad and one girl have both done over 90,000 steps and three others have done 85,000, 72,000 and 68,000 respectively. Really proud of them all but mainly her as she has encouraged them all to get walking. Go girl!

[Patsy33]

Wow! Fair dos to your daughter BD. She is an inspiration to others.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

She does not drive so will do another 4-6 miles tomorrow doing her shopping. I'm tired just thinking about it

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Last one on this thread. My error as she had done the 149,518 steps up to lunchtime Friday. Her total steps on what they have called "The Workweek Hustle" is 161,847 followed by her workmates on 134,695, 127,310, 122,747, 122,519, 113,757, then a four more in the 80,000 to 48,000 range. Maybe some of you could start one at your place of work and have a bit of a challenge while getting fitter. Steps are counted from Monday am to arriving home from work on Friday evening.