Weight = 108.4 Kgs
Steps Completed = 12229
I decided last night that I may as well start my challenge early as its Monday today instead of starting in the middle of the week on the 1st as planned!
I woke up at 4:30 without an alarm and got up and did my salt water and my weigh-in (108.4 kgs again this morning) I then got dressed and did all the recycling before getting the lead on the dog and heading out for a walk.
We did my uphill route that I do when I am rucking but I didn’t use the weight vest this morning as my knee is still not 100% at the moment and I didn’t want to mess it up any more than I have already! I have decided that I will hold off on walking in the weight vest until next week to let my knee heal a bit first! The uphill route is so much easier than it is with the weight vest but its still much better than walking on the flat!
As you can see from the image above I walked for 53:40 minutes and covered 2.74 miles gained 343 ft (mostly in the 1st mile) and walked about 6222 steps.
By the time I was home I was on 6518 steps on my fitbit so the real number of steps was somewhere in between the 2 I guess.
I think the morning walk broke the dog too:
The walk was also slower with the dog as she kept turning around to go home wever 10m for the first mile or so which slowed me down a fair bit but it was nice walking with the dog as its way better in my opinion walking with a dog instead of just walking as you feel like you have a purpose to walk 🙂
Its odd but ever since I got up this morning I have felt way more motivated to get up and do stuff than I usually am and I haven’t really wanted to look at my phone or turn on the TV since I got up which is unusual to say the least!
I have just messaged my friend that I was planning to go on a road ride with today to see if he fancies going to the track instead as its actually dry today so I have to make the most of it as its going to be wet and cold again tomorrow 🙁
My knee is less painful now than it was when I got up so I think that the walk has helped with that so a week of walking will hopefully get it back to 100% ready to start rucking next Monday morning.
I have been thinking how easy the walking was today and I’m not sure if its due to not having the weight vest on or due to the fact that I am super well rested from basucally a week of not moving 🙂 Even my fitbit was calling me lazy this morning saying that my activity was well down last week compared to the past month where I have been getting 12000 steps in at least!
| Date | Day | Weight (kgs) | Steps Done |
| 23/12/2023 | Monday | 108.5 | 12802 |
| 24/12/2023 | Tuesday | 107.9 | 5044 |
| 25/12/2023 | Wednesday | 108.8 | 4433 |
| 26/12/2023 | Thursday | 109.1 | 1571 |
| 27/12/2023 | Friday | 108.7 | 5150 |
| 28/12/2023 | Saturday | 109 | 4727 |
| 29/12/2023 | Sunday | 108.4 | 4384 |
As you can see from last weeks step totals I haven’t been doing even 1/2 of the 12000 steps last week other than last Monday which was my last day in the office before the xmas break.
As I have started the challenge early I have started my 2025 training log early too so that I have all of my training for the 2025 challenge in the 2025 training plan. I have added a column for Morning walk now too so that I can easily see if I am doing the morning walks or not as that is my main goal this year to do it evey day so I need to make sure that I am.
The dog is definately tired as I have just gone into the kithen to get water and she has stayed in bed! She is usually glued to my side so thats good that she has had a good work out this morning 🙂
I have also decided that when I get home from my walk I will open all the doors and windows in the flat to do Lüften to try and combat all the humidity and mould in my flat and reduce the need to have the de humidifier on all the time. Swapping the damp stale air for drier fresh air is also supposed to reduce heating costs too so that will be good too!
Doing Lüften when I get home makes sense as I am used to the cold from walking for 45 minutes or so so having the windows open will not be so much of a shock then! It will be interesting to see if doing this reduces asthma too as my bedroom window hasn’t been openined in well over a year so the air is pretty stagnet in there now 🙂 Doing Lüften after my walk means that most people will still be asleep so I don’t look like a complete nut case while doing it 🙂
Basically my morning routine for now will be:
Wake up
Make salt water
weigh-in
Drink salt water
Walk
Lüften for 10 minutes while I do my morning triage for work (15 mintutes or so)
Shower
Get dressed
Ride ebike into the office.
I have just gone around the flat and opened all the windows and the back door and I am now sat with a hoodie on freezing as the flat airs out. Once the dog goes back to my parents I will also be able to open the front door as well to increase the amount of air flow which will hopefully sort out the mould issues around the front door too! It is amazing how much fresher the air is feeling in the flat after only 5 minutes so I think that this is a really worthwhile habit to add to my daily routine too! The temperature in the flat has dropped 2 degrees already so that should help too,
I have updated my goals board in my bedroom to show the 5am walk, Lüften and 12000 steps goals on there.
It looks like crap at the moment but I will print off some stickers later and clean the old sticky off with alcohol and it will look much better 🙂
To be honest the make the bed can probably be removed from the board now as I have done it every day for the past year or more so its a habit now so I don’t need to be reminded to do it any more so I will move Weigh-in to the top of the board and then re-arrange the tasks in order so it will read:
Weigh-in
5am walk
Lüften
BMX
Chin ups
Walk 12000 steps
Rollers
Cleaning 1/2 hour
Learning hour
At 5 pm I fed the dog them we went for a walk around the block and that got me to just under 11000 steps. We then loaded the dog in the car and too her back to my parents house and got a roast thrown in too 🙂
We got home about 8:30 and I cracked on and did my 10 minutes backwards walking which took me over the 12000 goal for the day so I chilled and watched TV after that.
I finished the day on 12229 steps for the day but it took until 9 pm to get them done so I need to try and get the steps done earlier if possible going forwards.
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