iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Maitake Te Moa Walk, North Coast, Easter Island Day 14 (for me, but Day 10 for the tour)

Today is Wednesday and it's Masked Singer day and it's the last day of my Easter Island Walking Tour! I made it! It really wasn't that hard. it was only 14 walks and the longest was 2 miles. Some of them were less than a mile. Most of them were relatively flat with a few bumps. Most of them were 2.5MPH. A couple had 2.6 or 2.7MPH parts. Overall, this was a good experience. 

For some reason, my calves and hamstrings were a bit sore in this one and I felt like a wimp because of that. I don't think I've had a rest day in a bit though so let's blame it on that or the lack of sleep. Let's blame it on anything other than me being a wimp. I liked the view in this walk and he wasn't overly bubbly. There weren't many rocks to look at either so that was nice. It was interesting to hear him talk about some invasive species that were introduced to the island. It's sad, but interesting. 

I hatched Pokemon Go eggs! The first was yet another male combee......grrrrrrrr! The second was a budew. I'm so sick of budew! The third was another Riolu! YES YES YES! I only need five more candies to evolve one! The fourth was a female combee. Ugh, but at least it wasn't a male! The fifth was another gible so I only need one more candy to do a full evolve on that! Yay!!!!!!!! The sixth was a happiny. Cuz I don't have a bazillion of them. I remember when I was so bummed I couldn't evolve Chansey because I didn't have the candy. Now I have 321 candy and that's after evolving a couple Chanseys. The sevent was a hippopotas. I've got a ton of those at this point and plenty of candy to evolve more. The eighth was another budew. That was the last of my 7km eggs from the event. I'm happy that I got that nice bump in my riolu candy! They say that a lucario is great in the Giovanni quests! I wasn't expecting so many eggs to hatch. I thought with such a short walk, I'd only get one. I guess I didn't realize how close I was on the others. Woot woot! I only have one egg left and it has .6 to go! Time to go veg on the couch and eat dinner! I guess I need to decide what walking stuff to do next! I think I'll end up doing the 1.5mile slide show walks since it involves the least amount of decision making, but it's 30 walks! That feels like a big commitment. 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Ahu Te Peu Walk, Te Peu, Easter Island Day 13 (for me, but day 9 for the tour)

Today is Tuesday. I pretty much want to puke right now, but I still got up on the treadmill and got this done. I only have one walk left of the tour after this! I'm very happy to be done. I like to finish things. I feel like I've been doing this one forever, but I only started it on January 28th. That's two weeks. I feel a bit confused about that though. I feel like I've skipped several days and I'm only one day short and I don't remember doubling up. I just double checked the library and I do indeed only have one left, so yay me! I'll do the last one tomorrow. I gave up on trying to get these in the right order and I just picked this one because it was shorter and I didn't actually want to walk. I forced myself to do it because I want to be done tomorrow and doing one tonight was the only way that would happen. 

This one was pretty easy. I was actually slightly stressed when I started this one. It's short. It's not even 3/4 of a mile, but it looked like it was going to be 2.7MPH for the bulk of it and I knew that was going to kill my desire to live and I wasn't sure if I could force myself to finish it. The other day, I had about 15 minutes of 2.7MPH and I wanted to die. Turns out, this only went to 2.5MPH. Easy peasy! Not much to say about this. I'm getting a bit bored with looking at rocks. I still haven't decided what I'm doing next. I'm toying with the three Niagra walks that I can do and then either the three in Turkey that I can do or I might do the Grand Canyon just to see how helacious it really is. I feel like I can do some of them, but not so sure about others. I could go back to the old standby of the slide show walks that are 1.5 miles. I get to pick the speed with those and there is a nice mix of flat and hilly. 

Okay I'm rambling, so I'll wrap this up. I didn't hatch any eggs in Pokemon Go. 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Hanga Otea Walk, North Coast, Easter Island Day 12 (for me and for the tour!)

Today is Monday! It's day 12 for me of this walking tour and it's also day 12 of the actual walking tour. I think this is the first time since day 1 that I matched the walk for the correct day. I came home early from work since hubby came home sick. I'm glad that I picked this one for today. It was a relatively short walk, but it pretty much kicked my butt. I'm not sure if it was because I'm tired from the long walk yesterday. I wasn't looking forward to the last incline towards the end. He had the speed down to 1.6 I think for that 26% blip which is the only way I got through it, but as soon as the machine said it was going down to 0% incline, the speed kicked up to 2MPH so I was going 2MPH as we went from 26% include to 0% incline. I kinda wanted to die. I didn't think about my shins, my back or my arms. All I thought about was oxygen and how to get more of it to my brain! I guess I was also wondering how much longer I could go without falling off the machine cuz the incline was intense! 

Check out my impressive heart rate monitor line though. No more giant swooping changes! I'm pretty impressed with it. I guess it's all about how the strap interacts with my bra that day. 

This walk was in a beginner series, but this was not a beginner walk. Maybe if the treadmill only goes to 15% it would be a beginner, but that 26% was crazy! I only have two more of these walks to go and then I have to decide what I want to do! There are other tours like this that I want to do. There are a couple that have four walks, but three of them I can do and the fourth isn't going to happen for awhile. Either the length, the incline or the speed will do me in. I wish that I could control the speed for some of them. I like that in this series, I couldn't control the speed only because it pushed me, but there are some that I just won't be able to do because the speed is just way too much. If I change the speed, I'll lose the automatic adjustments to the incline and I don't want to do that. Decisions decision! I still have a couple days to decide.

I didn't hatch any eggs in Pokemon Go. I still have one kilometer for one and 2 kilometers for the rest. Ugh!  

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Orongo Walk Rano Kau, Easter Island Day 10 (for me, but day 14 for the tour)

Today is Saturday! Woot Woot! No work today other than five phone calls with a report for each. I told my husband that I didn't want to wake up at 7:00 and rush to get to town for breakfast. I wanted to sleep in! I woke up at 7:00! OMG! I was not a happy camper about that. We didn't rush to town though. He took a shower, so I had to wait to take my shower. It was 8:45 I think before we got to town. We went to breakfast and then Walmart for some shopping. Once we got home, I did my calls and then took a nap. Once I woke up, hubby brought out chips and cheese. Then I played on my iPad for a bit. 

My belly was not doing so well, but I'm not sure why. I still got up and got on the treadmill though. I was planning on doing the 2 mile walk today, but my belly wanted none of that. I didn't even want to walk. I compromised and got up there, but did the 1.3 mile walk instead. I wasn't expecting so much elevation since most of them have been pretty flat with some small hills. I was hoping the speed would be slower since there was more elevation, but nope. Most of this was 2.5MPH. I got through it. I did okay, but my belly did not. My calves were a little tight by the end. I'm happy that I did it. I thought I was going to get enough distance to hatch seven of my Pokemon Go eggs today. There is an event going on where we can get some stuff that I need! I was .09 short of hatching the dang eggs! I'm pretty bummed about that. I shorted the cool down by a minute because of my belly. If I hadn't done that, I might have made it! Oh well. I'll just shake my phone for a few minutes to make up for it. Only four more of these Easter Island walks and then I have to decide what I'm doing next! There are a few other walks like this in other countries. I think I'll pick one that doesn't have very many walks. One of them only has four! There's one in the Scottish Highlands and I really want to do it. It's got some crazy elevation in it for some short distances. I kinda think it would be awesome for after work since they are short, but brutal. Some people said they couldn't get them to load. We shall see. 

Off to sit on the couch until my belly can handle me standing up long enough to do dishes. 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Papa aka Walk, Te Pito Kura, Easter Island Day 6 (For me, but Day 4 for the tour)

Today is Monday! I was actually excited to go to work today because I have some projects I wanted to work on. Oddly enough, I didn't do a single one of them because I ended up taking a nice easy Monday. I also left early because I had a car and I could. Hubby stayed home sick and I can make up the hours later in the week. It sucks that I'll lose the overtime, but whatever. 

After I got home, I took a few minutes to chillax on the couch and then I jumped on the treadmill and did this one. It was the walk from Day 4. This is the one I was supposed to do that day that I couldn't get the internet to work and then I ended up doing a shorter walk since I didn't have time for the longer one. So anyway, I got this out of the way. Most of the remaining walks are less than a mile now. There are two that are just over a mile and one that's two miles. I'm not really looking forward to the two mile one since it's 2.5MPH for most of it and it also has some 2.7MPH and it will be the longest one I've done since getting back on the treadmill. At least I have a few more walks before I get there. Maybe I will survive. 

This was another walk with him walking around talking about rocks. He's entertaining enough and helps pass the time. I don't really remember anything he said once I'm off the treadmill though. I don't have the brain power to remember what he's saying while I'm sweating and breathing heavy. I did pretty well with this one. I found myself using the lower bar more or even the side bars. I had my hands at the top for a bit as well, but I feel like I'm getting better. I the beginning, I had a weird pain in my belly on the right side. My calves also got sore at some point, but I made it and tomorrow will be a shorter walk. 

I hatched one Pokemon Egg. It was a Magikarp, but not a shiny one! UGH! I think I'm the only person on the planet who is actively playing Pokemon Go and doesn't have a shiny MagiKarp yet. There are very few shines I actually want and that's one of them! 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Day 3 (For me, but Day 5 of the tour) Beach of the Kings, Anakena, Easter Island

Today is Thursday. We went to bed at 8:00 last night, so I woke up at 4:00 to get my walk in. Day 3 of the iFit Easter Island Walking tour is a 1.8 mile walk. I wasn't looking forward to it, but I was going to do it. I knew that they had the time to to around 40ish minutes. I procrastinated getting on the treadmill. I was going to be cutting it really close with getting into the shower on time. Once I finally convinced myself to get on the treadmill, I had a problem. It wasn't connecting to the WiFi and I couldn't get it to work! I reset the machine. I reset the router. I just couldn't make it work. WiFi was working on my phone, but not the machine. At some point, I tried a different password and BOOM! I got in. At that point though, I knew I couldn't pull off the 1.8 mile walk so I thought about just skipping the walk. Then, I thought about doing a manual walk. Then I decided to just see if there was something shorter that I could do out of order. I picked this one from day five because I knew I'd have time for the walk and this post. (Although, I only have two minutes left to post, so maybe saying I knew I'd have time was inaccurate.)

This was flatter than the other two and the speed didn't change much which was nice. It was a nice easy walk and he was entertaining enough that I didn't do a countdown on the time. We shall see if he's entertaining enough to make me skip the time countdown when I get to the 1.8 mile walk tomorrow. At the end of this one, he was walking along the beach and went on a mini rant/educational moment about plastic pollution. I could have lived without that. I already see that on the news and Facebook. I don't need it during my workouts too. Otherwise, I enjoyed this one. I hope there are more of this type of program. 

I didn't hatch any Pokemon Go eggs which was disappointing, but I knew I wouldn't hatch any since I didn't have anything close enough to hatch with only .7 miles, but I had thought I was going to be doing the 1.8 so I thought I was going to hatch a bunch. Oh well. There is always tonight or tomorrow! Now I'm a minute over on my time. I gotta go!  

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Day 1 El Gigante Walk, Rano Raraku, Easter Island

In a few of my recent walks, I mentioned that I was going to bump up to the 1.5 Mile Challenge after I was done with my 1 Mile Challenge, but I changed my mind! I was looking through the workout library and I found what I had been looking for all these months! I found the video series library! I was so excited when I found this one because it's something totally doable for me and it sounded fun. This is an Easter Island Walking Tour! This guy walks around Easter Island and talks about the stuff there. It's a nice distraction while walking. Today was my first day doing it. I was supposed to start yesterday, but hubby wanted to pick up some ranch dressing on the way home and I always use that as an excuse to not walk when we get home. 

I had already looked at the map and knew it was about 160 feet of elevation and it was under a mile. I had planned on doing 2.5MPH for the whole walk. As you can see from the chart below, that didn't happen. This was the first walk where they controlled the speed for me. I've done one of these live video walks before, but they only changed the elevation on me. When I started the walk, I was at 2.5MPH and I got a little button on the screen that said "Follow trainer." I hit the button and it slowed me down to 2MPH. After a few minutes it bumped me up faster and seemed to change a bit at the same time as the elevation. If we went at a higher incline, we went at a slower pace. It was a rather comfortable walk and I liked the changes in speed. I'm usually too lazy to do it. The nice thing too was that the time remaining in the workout was already adjusted to accommodate for the changes in speed so it didn't extend out the time remaining when we walked slower. I would change the speed going uphill more often when I do the slide show type walks, but it extends out the time remaining since it's all based on the speed you're walking and it just doesn't work for my brain to extend that out. 

Overall, this guy was entertaining enough. He wasn't Josh Gates, but he wasn't boring either. I don't usually do these video ones because I've never been able to play the audio through headphones. It might be a safety feature, but it's annoying. I'd do more of these, but I'm sure my husband would be annoyed having to listen to them while trying to watch TV over the already loud treadmill and my heavy breathing. There is an option to run an HDMI cable from the machine to the TV. I talked to him about doing that so he could watch the Easter Island video and listen to the guy talk about stuff, but we don't have a cord long enough and it just doesn't seem like we'd ever use it after this if we did buy it. Although, I think this guy needs a nice fat iFit contract to do more of these types of programs. 

I've only done this video once so I only have the one pic below. Overall, I really liked it. I look forward to finishing out the series. I think there are only 14 of them.