I've mentioned this year's catalogue of setbacks to my health and fitness before and I've decided that now is the time to start getting moving again. It's a third time lucky thing, I hope, with no more setbacks to come but starting out seems harder than I imagined it would be.
After the last trouble with my knee, I felt absolute rest was needed - so at times during June I was barely doing 500 steps a day. A lot of catching up was needed!
By the end of July I'd decided that a more constructive and structured plan than 'walk round the garden a lot' was needed. I started adding in short walks from my front door. There's a convenient circular route of 900 steps which I attempted first, and found exhausting. But I did it again, and again, and soon started making it a little longer.
I got my weekly step-count up to 15,000, then 20,000. Onward and upwards. Maybe.
I've been trying over a longer period of time to get my average daily step count over the year back up to pre-pandemic levels. Last year, with a lot of effort in November and December, I managed to get that figure up above 4,000. With this year's level so far standing at 2,500, I worked out that I need to do an average of 7,000 steps a day to reach last year's mark. I doubt I'll get there, but you never know ...
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