January exercise challenge

Yes, it’s another lockdown. Regardless, I’m still trying to keep the mind and body in good shape. This month inspired by an exercise challenge, I committed myself to doing 21 or more activities.

Could be anything from:

• walking
• running
• yoga
• paragliding

Did I conquer the challenge?

Yep. By my count I squeezed in 24 activities over the month. There was snow, ice, rain, a brutal pandemic, hailstorms but that couldn’t stop me.

Show me the evidence

This is what I did…

What activities?

I got through:

Totals & averages

Exercising:

• Total miles: 65.77 miles. Yoga isn’t helping this.
• Average distance from running & walking: 5.06 miles

Time:

• Total time taken: 22.49 hours
• Average exercise time: 56.23 minutes

What else?

Facts and figures:

• longest distance was 16.55 miles
• lowest distance was 2.53 mile walk
• fastest run was 8.26 minutes per mile, not terrible given the conditions I was running in

Perspective

I saw this morning that the quite frankly incredible Eddie Izzard is finishing off a marathon a day this month with an ultramarathon (plus doing a stand-up gig everyday).

Eddie completes the challenge with a double marathon joined by Joanna Lumley @Dawn_French @realrossnoble @ShappiKhorsandi @daraobriain Stanley Tucci @bobsaget @Richard_Schiff Laura Linney @pattonoswalt & more! Donate https://t.co/Uby7ePF7bl -The Beekeepers https://t.co/YF4oBRD58u

— Eddie Izzard (@eddieizzard) January 31, 2021

By my count he has done about 838.4 miles this month. I did about 7.8% of what Eddie has done… yikes! Such an amazing achievement.

What next?

Have enjoyed getting into balancing out the type of exercise and not being so running heavy. I think it’s been a wise move given the weather and pandemic but also the yoga has helped with all those work from home aches and pains. Will try to continue this for Feb.