Feets of Fancy

Fall is here!

2008-09-25T09:16:00.000-07:00

Well, the walk'n is over.

I have kept a walking diary for every day since summer started. I was pretty sad to put in that last entry.

So, here's a summary:

Week 1: 60,981 steps and 23.06 miles
Week 2: 61,178 steps and 23.14 miles
Week 3: 67,480 steps and 25.42 miles
Week 4: 69,768 steps and 26.36 miles
Week 5: 73,520 steps and 30.90 miles
Week 6: 81,432 steps and 35.82 miles
Week 7: 63,266 steps and 27.86 miles
Week 8: 72,561 steps and 28.54 miles
Week 9: 81,916 steps and 32.08 miles
Week 10: 69622 steps and 26.32 miles
Week 11: 69312 steps and 26.19 miles
Week 12: 76234 steps and 28.82 miles

Total: 908,174 steps and 361.46 miles!

One of our fun days was the fair. We clocked 17,350 steps and 7.66 miles!

We won't discuss the calories burned vs. calories consumed.

Anywhoodle, thanks to all of you we raised $395.00

Add in the $80.00 I would have spent in fees for the MS walk and we get a total of

$475.00!

I can't get the screen shot to load of my payment record to MS. However the tracking code for the donation is: 1638-13181-1-2920223-2936704. Also, because this effort was done in honor of a good blogger friend she will be getting a note about the donation.

I will continue to try to load the screen shot so you know I made the contribution to MS.

Cheers!

*update* here's the screen shot!

Newt's walk'n

2008-08-20T08:49:00.000-07:00

Steps: 61012
Miles: 26.95

The fair starts Thursday and we will be heading there hopefully soon. I can't wait to see what sort of miles we put on then.

Grant you it will never come close to covering the calorie consumption. But hey, any bit helps.

Newt's Walking

2008-08-12T09:46:00.000-07:00

I have to do some catch up here with everyone:

I owe you for a few weeks:

On Monday, August 4 my walking for the previous week was:

Steps: 63,266
Miles: 27.86

And for last week, my golfing outing week:

Steps: 81,342
Miles: 35.82

I do have to admit that golfing is most excellent exercise. As long as you don't take the little cart everywhere :-)

update

2008-08-08T09:32:00.000-07:00

Update to the past 4 days....

32,163 steps
12.95 miles

I think the steps look much more impressive.

Have a wonderful weekend!

It's Hump Day

2008-08-06T05:43:00.000-07:00

I have managed to do 23,700 steps so far this week. I'm not sure how many I will have during the day today as I trained legs on Monday and I am hurting!

Have a happy rest of the week.

Nettie

The Big Loser is here

2008-07-31T06:29:00.000-07:00

I have been horrible at keeping up to date on my progress. I am happy to say that I have been doing approximately 5 miles a day with the gym being my biggest help. The training has me walking and running which helps put on the miles.

Thanks to everyone that's still supporting Newt and I on this quest to raise some money for a very good cause. I'm starting to hear advertisements for the State Fair which sadly means that summer is coming to an end sooner than we would like. But I'm going to enjoy every single minute of what I can!

Newt's Miles

2008-07-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

Well, the mall trip didn't turn out to be the walking extravaganza we had planned. I got out of a meeting when we were supposed to be meeting there. And then of course traffic sucked to get across town. So, my fault. It ended up being a short night.

However we did find some fabulous shoes (of course) - the DSW in Mall of America is remodeling so they had an additional 30% off clearance prices. Can't beat that!

Anywhoodle, here's the miles for the week:

73,520 steps
30.9 Miles

I'm Whole Again

2008-07-24T05:48:00.000-07:00

My new pedometer arrived in the mail. Yippee. This one comes with a safety harness. Ha Ha Ha - hopefully I can hold on to it for more than a month.

Anywhoodle, sorry this update is late.

Steps: 69,768
Miles: 26.36

Tonight, we go to the mall. That will put on some mileage!

Newt Checks In

2008-07-15T18:49:00.000-07:00

I was heading for my plane at the Dallas airport.
Going through security
Being a good little citizen and putting all my junk in the bucket
When I reach for my pedometer
let's here a good ol' Minnesota "Awwww Crap!"

Yes, that's right, the pedometer is somewhere between the hotel and the car rental bus.

So after a little more swearing I accepted my fate and headed home.

But no sooner did I get back into town that I headed to Target for a new pedometer.

It's crap. But it will get me through till the new one arrives in the mail.

Anywhoodle:

Steps: 67,480
Miles: 25.42

I do have to say that I have gotten so used to having it attached to me that I felt pretty naked those few hours. And the pedometer - my poor lost lovely pedometer, it had a clock. So I always knew what time it was.

It's amazing what can become a wonderful and fun habit.

I had high hopes of doing a lot of walking in Dallas. However, it was 100 degrees, humid, and there is no shade. So, I had a choice, get hot, sweaty, red faced, and HOT, or ride in the air conditioned car. I chose the car. Walking home was ok. I could go take a quick cold shower before dinner. But I do have to confess, comfort won out in the morning. I just didn't want to feel gross all day long.

Spork Award

2008-07-09T06:12:00.000-07:00

Yay, I didn't screw up the blog!

For those of you who have made a donation here, or to any MS fundraiser in the last month, feel free to take the below spork award for your blog! Thanks for supporting this great cause and these two wonderful people.

MS Supporter Award (Small)

MS Supporter (Large)

Newt's update

2008-07-07T05:14:00.000-07:00

Quick update as I am heading out the door to fly to Texas:

61178 Steps
23.14 Miles

Love to all!

Update

2008-07-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

From Wednesday 6/25 to Tuesday 7/1, I have walked a total of 24.57 miles.

Last night I put on 5.23 because of the long walk I took. It was a walk that I used to take when I first starting losing my weight and it was wonderful being back on it. I even had my own cheering section.

They were grazing and saw me walking on the road. All of a sudden they all came running at me in a big group. Then they all stopped and just stared at me. I figured they were just waiting for me to take their picture, so I decided to oblige.

Happy 4th!

Newt Checks In

2008-06-30T17:54:00.000-07:00

Newt didn't manage to clock a lot of miles this past week. I had hopes and dreams of walking during lunches. But lunches in and of themselves were just that, a hope. Dang work............
Anywhoodle, here's what I managed:

Steps: 60,981
Miles: 23.06

I have got to get walking more. Sigh...................I have to be in Texas next week. And I hear that most people walk to the office from the hotel. And of course when I fly out of MSP my plane is always at the 9th gate of hell. Which means that walk should be a mile or three :-)

So yippee! I am going to get the chance to walk a LOT next week. This week, Oh, I'm working on it...........

Gotta Love the Mall - Newt and Daisy put on the miles

2008-06-26T19:53:00.000-07:00

Shoe shopping has it's advantages. We clocked 2 miles just shoe shopping today! Ok, so it was way more than shoe shopping, but it involved shoes.

Between a busy day at work and shopping with One Daisy I clocked 13, 283 steps and still counting for Thursday!

That's 5.03 miles. And I'm not done yet for the day!

Sweet. I mean, shoe shopping alone is fabulous, but add to it that we are raising money for MS and it's ...........it's...............it's.............shoegasmic!

Progress

2008-06-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

It's day 6 and I am proud to say that my pedometer is securely affixed to an outer article of clothing. On Monday I did 2.77 miles and Tuesday was 3.35 miles. I have been nursing an infection and have spent far too much time on the couch or in bed. But as of Monday, life resumes to the normal ass beatings I get from the personal trainer. That means at least 2 miles a day working out. Body be damned for not just maintaining without having to go through such abuse!

Daisy needed a little help

2008-06-23T07:53:00.000-07:00

After reading Newts post below, I didn't feel so bad. I hooked up the pedometer on Friday and thought I had it all under control. I have realized that my "steps" are off a little but I believe it's getting the right idea. Then I completely forgot to hook myself up on Saturday. Sunday I wore a dress, which made for an interesting way of wearing the pedometer. Now, it wasn't too bad until I was walking through the gas station and the little gadget fell off it's stationary point and slid across the floor. In true "lady" fashion, I picked up the pedometer, hid at the end of an isle, hicked up my dress and retached the devise. When I got home last night, I realized that somehow my recording has changed from Miles to Steps. I did a little over 2 miles on friday and did over 3000 steps yesterday. (I was laying on the dock most of the day) As of 10am CST today, I have 1,831 steps. I'm excited to see how many miles/steps the two of us actually log over the next few months.

Thanks to everyone that has donated!

Slow Start for Newt

2008-06-23T06:19:00.001-07:00

So, first I get a big "BOOOOOO"ing for having played around with the pedometer I bought way ahead of the game. Because once I figured out how to set it up I put it somewhere very safe. And you know what happens when things get put away in safe places...........So, thanks to having to clean out and move my book shelves I noticed a few books in my favorites collection where missing. One of them I knew was on the china hutch. SO I ran downstairs and grabbed it. And low and behold, damn if the pedometer wasn't in a bowl under the book. See, things happen for a reason. I haven't organized or cleaned up my book piles in months, but it was getting to the point where I HAD to do something, so I finally did and that lead to finding the one gadget I desperately need for a proper fancy feet kick off!

Newt logged only 3.2 miles this weekend. I hang my head in shame. But the nature of my weekend didn't allow for much activity. Sigh.............But never fear, I have all summer long to walk like crazy!

Walk for a cause

2008-06-18T11:14:00.000-07:00

So here is the scoop:

Newt and OneDaisy - two major shoe whores were sitting around one day (in the shoe store of course) surrounded by beautiful pumps, sandals, peek-a-boo's. And we both thought, gee, wouldn't it be cool to have an excuse to buy a brand new pair of sneakers? I mean, we always can find an excuse to buy pumps or sandals, color, style, heal, etc.... But sneakers? It's hard to justify when you have a perfectly good pair or 4 at home. But then we thought: But what if we had a really good reason to need to walk A LOT! Then we could say, well if we have to walk A LOT then we would need several pairs so that we didn't wear our only pair or 4 out. And so they wouldn't get smelly, sweaty......'

And then it hit us like a flying shoe box: Why don't we walk for a cause?

So Newt and OneDaisy came up with Walk the Summer for MS!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the shoe whores are going to walk the summer away and hopefully raise a little money.

So, what do you say?

Who wants to sponsor us?

By the mile, or one big (or small) chunk? We figure we will average 2-4 miles daily. So around 200-400 miles each. Unless of course we are REALLY ambitious. So if you said a dime a mile you would be looking at about 20 bucks. If you wanted to sponsor us by the mile you could also give us a max. mile you will sponsor. So, if you said 50 cents a mile with a max of 200 miles that would work too. We won't stop walking but we won't ask you to donate more :-)

All and we mean ALL donations will go to MS research. We have a dearly loved fellow blogger that has MS and we would like to walk in honor of her.

We will be walking from the first day of summer to the last day of summer. And posting every Monday where we are at.

Progress, etc. will be posted as soon as we figure out the software that came with the pedometers.

We have added a widget on the left side that allows you to donate through PayPal. We promise full disclosure on all transactional information so you guys know we really give the money to MS.

More to come!