I've been working at my goal of walking 4 metric miles every day in an hour – around 7,500 daily steps – a marathon weekly – for 365 days now as exercise to keep me fit in lieu of going salsa dancing 6 nights a week which was my raison d'être until it was rudely interrupted by lockdown in March 2020.
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I've been working at my goal of walking 4 metric miles every day in an hour – around 7,500 daily steps – a marathon weekly – for 309 days now as exercise to keep me fit in lieu of going salsa dancing 6 nights a week which was my raison d'être until it was rudely interrupted by lockdown in March 2020.
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Philip Wake
Day 138 Salsa Walk
I felt stronger today and walked the 3 miles at 65% tempo in 54:00 which is 71 seconds faster than yesterday so I must have taken longer strides. I walked the first mile in 20:33 (to Dioumte & Abibou) and the Military Road mile in 18:13 (to Lindas, Temedi & SonFo) which shows how much faster I walked to the faster music.
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Philip Wake
Day 128 Salsa Walk
My left foot didn't seem to be improving but I thought it might be a good idea to test it out so I did. I tried walking at 58% of the Africando Mix tempo on a circular route for 6/10 of a mile taking around 15 minutes.
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Philip Wake
Day 125 Salsa Walk
0850 ONLINE CONSULATATION WITH A FRIENDLY NURSE
I explained the problem and sent her the above picture from Day 123. She said that it's probably just a reaction to the soft tissue injury rather than an infection which would usually have an infection site and result in the whole foot swelling up.
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Philip Wake
Day 123 Salsa Walk
Oh dear - I seem to have overdone the interventions on my crossed over left toe. As you can see from the picture my foot is actually swollen now so I'll have to rest until it recovers. You can see the difference from my right foot which has a crossed over toe which I have managed to straighten - believe it or not - but is not causing me trouble.
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31:23 + 30:31 = 61:54 (new record for the 4 mile return trip)
On an overcast late afternoon in a cool breeze I knocked over 2 minutes off the old record set only 2 days ago. It looks like I'll only be able to walk to the ferry as fast as I walk back home if I warm up before I start walking!
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Walking so fast yesterday seems to have disturbed the crossed over toe on my left foot. The first little toe crosses over the big-toe because I wore split sole jazz trainers that didn't have enough space in the front region for my wide feet when I first started salsa dancing in 2003.
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(Featuring slow motion salsa music!)
I‘ve been walking 4 miles every day – 10,000 daily steps – a marathon weekly – for 114 days now as exercise to keep me fit in lieu of going salsa dancing 6 nights a week. I wore headphones and walked to the beat of salsa music to make it more interesting and, because I‘ve always found walking hard work, this made my walking smooth like dancing and therefore easier for me!
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(Featuring an attempt on my life by an ignorant motorist!)
I‘ve been walking 4 miles every day – 10,000 daily steps – a marathon weekly – for 105 days now as exercise to keep me fit in lieu of going salsa dancing 6 nights a week. I wore headphones and walked to the beat of salsa music to make it more interesting and, because I‘ve always found walking hard work, this made my walking smooth like dancing and therefore easier for me!
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I‘ve been walking 4 miles every day – 10,000 daily steps – a marathon weekly – for 91 days now as exercise to keep me fit in lieu of going salsa dancing 6 nights a week. I wear headphones and walk to the beat of salsa music to make it more interesting and, because I‘ve always found walking hard work, this makes walking smooth like dancing and therefore easier for me!
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I've been walking 4 miles every day - 10,000 daily steps - a marathon weekly - for 81 days now as exercise to keep me fit in lieu of going salsa dancing 6 nights a week. I wear headphones and walk to the beat of salsa music to make it more interesting and, because I've always found walking hard work, this makes walking smooth like dancing and therefore easier for me!
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Here are my last 8 salsa walks before Freedom Day on 19 July 2021!
(A time of 56:19 or less means I walked at an average speed of 4 miles per hour or better which is the standard marching speed of the British soldier with a 50lb backpack. Instead of carrying a 50lb backpack, I carry 75 years of age as if I were 25!
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The original of this report may be found here on facebook. Below I have copied it and added some useful webpage formatting.
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Philip Wake
Day 318 Salsa Walk
The forecast was 100% chance of precipitation and I felt like I needed a rest so I decided to give my salsa walk a miss today.
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I've been using old fashioned bathroom scales for years and knew they were rubbish because I weighed something different every time I stood on them. However, I found a way of using them and apparently reduced my weight by 33lbs from 14st10lb on 19th April to 12st5lb on 27 November but I finally got fed up with the innate inaccuracy of scales which use a physical balance to turn a circular disk to tell you what you weigh.
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I recently dropped my phone while I was doing my daily salsa walk and ended up with a deep chip in the top right corner with some cracks running off it. I didn't take a before picture but you can see from the pictures below how bad it was. At this stage I have used Loca Glue (Liquid Optically Clear Adhesive) to fill the hole and the cracks and shone the UV torch (Ultra Violet) on it for a while to harden it off.
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21 June 2020: 9 weeks ago I noticed my weight had gone up to 14st10lb having dared to weigh myself at last and realised that my cheating on my Natural Low Density Eating had gone too far. Instead of having chips only twice a week, I was having them every day as a reward for walking the first 2 miles of my daily salsa walk.
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Towards the end of 2020 I started a new style of menu and this is the latest version that I keep to every day to give me the structure I need for my daily life. I record it every day in a Word file and include notes which turn it into my diary which now has nearly 1500 pages for a 2 year period (on 30 June 2021).
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<Count Down to Freedom Day (19 July 2021)!.My Dear Friend,
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