{"id":277,"date":"2006-07-17T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2006-07-17T22:58:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T12:58:38","slug":"fitness-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Fitness challenge Week 1 &#8211; 69,389 steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started a week ago, when <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sharon's challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/inaminuteago.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/07\/17\/week-1-67355-steps\/\">Sharon started a challenge<\/a> among her online friends to walk 10,000 steps a day to improve fitness. The challenge was to blog a photo once a week of the pedometer &#8211; thus making it a public challenge, and the results publicly visible. As someone with a desk job, it seemed a reasonable way to go, and surely not too arduous. And something that could be worked into one&#8217;s normal day, without having to travel to a gym or buy outlandish medieval torture devices. Just a discreet little pedometer. And so it began.<\/p>\n<p>By day two I realised that a desk job usually involves walking about 4-5,000 steps &#8211; and it was quickly apparent that I would need to do more to get the requisite number of steps up. Moreover, by the end of day two I realised I would now need to exceed 10,000 steps a day in order to catch up my deficit. Then i remembered the time I put on my pedometer set to zero before playing a show, and after three hours had 40,000 steps done&#8230; Ah &#8211; a bit of fiddle practice should do the trick!<\/p>\n<p>And it nearly did &#8211; after the first seven days, here is the result:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image276\" alt=\"pedometer 16 July 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/ped1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started a week ago, when Sharon started a challenge among her online friends to walk 10,000 steps a day to improve fitness. The challenge was to blog a photo once a week of the pedometer &#8211; thus making it a public challenge, and the results publicly visible. As someone with a desk job, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}