iFit 1.5 Mile Challenge Bangkok, Thailand

Today is Monday. It's the start of my second week of working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. I love love love working from home. I see all these people on Facebook complaining about this whole push for people to stay home to not spread this. They are saying how this is what it's like to live in socialism. I'm like eh, this is what my life is like. Other than giving up breakfast out on the weekend with my husband and working from home, my life really hasn't changed. I go grocery shopping when I need to. The life of an introvert! 

I haven't posted since March 11th. I did do some walking on the treadmill, but they were just boring manual workouts so I didn't post them. I haven't walked nearly as much as I should be, but I did do some. I was trying to figure out if I was getting sick and then there was the whole working from home thing. My new schedule is 6:00 am to 2:30 pm so I've got plenty of time to walk after work and I have zero excuses to not walk! 

I did this one at 2.5MPH. I picked this one because it was on the first page of the 1.5MPH walks. It was the second one on the list. I accidentally scheduled the first one for tomorrow so I picked this for today. It was pretty flat. The highest incline was 4%. The last time I did this one, I did it three minutes faster. I did it back in January of 2019. I felt like such a slacker once I saw that. I got up there and got through it. My legs didn't go numb. I'm pretty happy. I don't have a whole lot to say about this walk. The first screen shot is today and the last one is the previous attempt. 

I hatched one Pokemon Go egg. It was a Gothita. It was my first one so that was cool. 

Bangkok, Thailand Attempt 2

Bangkok, Thailand Attempt 1

iFit Scottish Highland Series Ben Nevis Hike Part 3 The Highlands, Scotland Day 14

It's Wednesday! I skipped walking yesterday and almost skipped today. It was a long day at work and I just didn't want to walk, but by the time we were close to home, I had convinced myself that I should walk and hubby said he was going to take a shower so that gave me no excuses and a whole lot of guilt if I didn't walk, so I did it. I got up there and I got the last part of this dang series done. I still want to go back and redo the first and second walks because those are the ones that I failed at. They were also a good learning experience though. I now know that I can change the speed without losing the elevation changes. It's the only thing that got me through the rest of these walks! It also means I can try new things that I wouldn't have before. 

This thing sucked. It was supposed to be .7 mile with 551.6 feet of elevation. It was set between 1.8 and 2.0 miles per hour. I started at 1.5 and then went down to 1.0. For the last bit, I went back up to 1.5, but I only went .45 miles and 331 feet of elevation. More than 200 feet of elevation short. I still feel very accomplished though. This was hella crazy elevation for me! There were like zero breaks. It was at 12% to 20% for like 20 minutes! My calves were killing me by the time I was done! When I was in the big 20% incline section, I kept telling myself that it would never get steeper than this! Then once the 20% stuff was over, I did that at 18%. After the second to last hill, I checked the time and just kept chanting, "Less than four minutes. Only one hill left. I can do that!" I would then change to 3-1/2 minutes, 3 minutes, 2-1/2 minutes, 2 minutes, 1-1/2 minutes and one minute. It was great! I am a great motivator. I convinced myself to stay up there! Woot woot! 

I had a longer than normal cool down because I needed to get to 30 minutes to get my 100 points for my Engage for Health. I didn't get any eggs hatched. I didn't have Adventure Sync on so I'm not sure if I'll get the credit. So far, I'm not getting my 30 minute workout credit either. I'm only getting credit for my 3,000 steps walked which is only 30 points! I'm getting shorted 70 points. I'm sure it will fix itself at some point, but for now, I'm bummed! 

iFit Scottish Highland Series Dunvegan Castle, The Highlands, Scotland Day 9

Today is Tuesday! This was my second attempt at this walk. Yesterday, I got up there and got about 10 minutes in before it died. I was going 2.7MPH again when it happened. I feel like 2.7MPH while going on declines just doesn't work for me. I did it today at 2.6MPH for the whole thing and got through it just fine. This was only 20 minutes. It felt super fast! I didn't really feel any pain or any huge desire to be done. I was in a fairly cranky mood when I was on the treadmill though so I was power walking and working off my annoyance. I guess it worked a bit. I'm not as cranky right now. I was cranky due to some stuff at work. I'm feeling micromanaged by a co-worker who has zero control of my life, but I hate confrontation so it's easier to just deal with that and be pissed off than to confront her and tell her to get off my case. 

This was supposed to be .9 miles, but it ended up .86. It was supposed to be 52 feet of elevation and it ended up 51 feet. I went slower than he did, but I wasn't too far off. I did not hatch an egg in Pokemon Go. I'm going to cut this post short because it's time to deal with dinner.

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Attempt 2

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iFit Scottish Highland Series Old Man of Storr Part 2 Isle of Skye Scotland Day 8

Today is Sunday. I took another couple days off from walking. I was so exhausted yesterday. I slept like half the day and then didn't sleep well last night. UGH! Oh well. Today, I was messing around with the Engage for Health app with work and found something that made me wonder if I could get extra points using my Polar device instead of using just my iPhone for steps since my iPhone doesn't have an activity tracking. The iWatch has it, but not the iPhone from what I can tell. I wanted to get up on the treadmill to mess around with it. 

This walk was the next one in line so I picked it since I'm trying to do this one in order. The first one is what I did and the second one is the template of what I should have done, but I can't go as fast as they have it set. I started at 2.5, then went to 2.0 and down to 1.7 for the hill. Then I got up to 2.6 for the low incline parts and then 2.0 for the final incline. It actually went pretty well. I didn't want to die on the hills. I wasn't counting down the seconds. I kept track of the time, but I wasn't staring at the clock. I was supposed to do 211 feet of elevation and 1.3 miles, but I did 189 feet of elevation and 1.21 miles. 

I discovered that I've actually been using the wrong heart rate monitor. Oopsy! I've been using the one that came with my Polar watch and not the one that came with the treadmill. The one that came with the watch still works with the treadmill. It just won't connect to the treadmill and the watch at the same time so I have to decide which one I want to work. 

Graham McTavish was the leader of the walk. My husband was watching TV so I didn't really hear everything that was said during the walk. There was some discussion on diet and exercise. 

This was my first time messing with the watch while using the treadmill. I think I need to do some more work on that. I had it in my pocket since I hold onto the handlebars on the treadmill. At some point, the watch stopped tracking my time. It stopped at like three and a half minutes which was stupid. Not sure if that's because it's a GPS watch and I was on a treadmill so I wasn't moving. It could have also just whacked something in my pocket. We shall experiment more with that later. I've been working on syncing the watch with the app on my phone ever since I got off the machine. It took some time to figure out how to actually sync it and now that it's syncing, I'm getting impatient. It's taking sooooooooooooooooooo soooooooooo long! I gave up and then tried again and now I'm confused. It says I had some activity, but only like 500 steps. I think it might be synced at this point, so I'll try again tomorrow. 

I hatched a Pokemon Go egg. It was a luvdisc. ugh. Oh well.  

iFit Scottish Highland Series Old Man of Storr Hike Part 1 Isle of Skye, Scotland Day 7

Today is Friday. My last walk was on Monday. I've been pretty tired. I was also just not in the mood for walking up this horrid hill. I think if I had picked a different series, I would have been more successful in going through it without taking giant gaps. This was supposed to be 1.3, but I had to slow the pace down so it was 1.09. I'm okay with that. I didn't stop the hills. I only changed the speed. I survived even though there were times that I thought I would not! My glutes were on fire! My back hurt and I just wanted to be done. This was supposed to be 537 feet, but it ended up 442 feet. I'm also okay with that. 

I started out with 2.5MPH and then went to 2MPH and the slowest was 1.5MPH. I was so tempted to go slower than that on the last hill section. That hill sucked. The little dip and then the increase again was just cruel! It would have been better to just not have that dang dip! Oh well. I got through it. I'm happy to be done with it. I didn't hatch and egg so that sucks. Oh well. I don't really have much to say. I need to get up and figure out what I'm eating for dinner. I'm not really in the mood for the lettuce part of the taco salad! Hubby is sick so he's having soup so I would be eating lettuce alone and I hate lettuce. I can eat lettuce if I'm not eating it alone!

iFit Scottish Highland Series Lochan Coire Lagan Hike 2 The Highlands, Scotland Day 5

Today is Sunday! I took a few days off! My last walk was Tuesday. Wednesday I made an excuse about the Imperfect Foods box coming so I had to take pics. Thursday, I think we stopped for chicken on the way home. Friday, I started dealing with dinner as soon as we got home and forgot that I had intended to walk. Saturday was busy. We went out for breakfast, we went shopping, I did some phone calls for my side job, I took a nap and I did dishes. After the nap, I was trying to figure out if I was getting sick since I was surprised that I slept as long and as hard as I did. So today, I knew that I needed to get this challenging walk out of the way or it wasn't going to happen on a Monday!

When I got up on the treadmill, I wanted to make sure that I ended up getting the correct walk for the day. I knew it was part two of something, but I didn't see it on there. I must have forgotten to hit the button about rescheduling my workouts when I missed them. I had to reload the four that I missed and the obnoxious thing is that I'm going to have to reload the rest of them again too since I'm four days behind. Unless I did four walks today! Oh well. 

I knew that I could get through this one by slowing down the speed. I got through the last one and it was worse than this one. I was having a hard time deciding where to set the speed though. I wanted to make it challenging, but I also wanted to make sure I got through it. I decided on 2.5MPH unless it was a hill and then I would go slower, but preferably no slower than 1.5MPH. It seemed to work okay. I was tempted to go lower than 1.5MPH when I got to the 29% incline part. That section was a bit rough. I was breathing super heavy. I just kept telling myself that it wouldn't get worse than that moment and if I could do that moment, I could do another moment. It worked. I got through it and still went up to 2.5MPH after that big hill was over! I feel pretty accomplished about that. I had a good excuse to just stick with 2MPH, but I pushed myself. My calves were a big sore by the time I was done with this one. 

Graham McTavish was the leader of this walk. He's been the leader of all of them. He walks and talks about being in The Hobbit or other movies he's been in. He's entertaining enough, but I stop paying attention to him when I'm on the steep inclines. I'm really grooving on these videos though now that I learned that I can change the speed and not impact the elevation. I like that I'm committing to an amount of time and not necessarily a distance. If the hills are too intense and I have to slow down to get through them, it doesn't extend the length of the hill. When I do the slide show walks, I have a hard time deciding if I want to slow down to make it easier because it also makes it last longer so it's a choice, just power through or slow down and be on the machine longer. 

Since I slowed this one down, I didn't get the distance or the elevation where it was supposed to be. It was supposed to be 1.5 miles, but I only ended up with 1.3 miles. It was supposed to be 396 feet, but I was only at 352. The first screen shot below is what I did and the one below it is what it should have been. 

I hatched a couple Pokemon Go eggs. The first was Cubone (blah). The second was a lillipup. (double blah). The sucky part though........I didn't get to the 3km mark to open up my next set of free battles. UGH! Guess I need to get another .5 km today. 

iFit Scottish Highland Series, Lochan Coire Lagan Hike Part 1, The Highlands, Scotland Day 4

Today is Tuesday. I got up at 4:00 am for some calls and then went to work all day. When we came home, I got up on the treadmill and got this one done! It was day four and I did the day four walk! Woot woot! This was supposed to be about 469 feet and we were supposed to go fast. I knew that I was not going to make it through this if I didn't slow down the pace and I really wanted to make it through this one. It's my fourth day and I hadn't gotten through any of the previous ones properly. The first one I had to kill the incline and then it did. The second one, I had to kill the incline, but it didn't die. The third one I didn't make any changes to it, but it still died. I wanted to get through one of them without anything dying. I started out at 2.0 and then went down to 1.8 and a little more 2.0 and then at some point I was down to 1.5. I never went below 1.5.

My hamstrings pretty much hated life, but I was going slow enough that I could breathe. I actually felt like I was going to slow. I felt like I wasn't pushing myself, but I didn't want to push too hard and then not make it through the end, so I just kept it at 1.5 for the hard parts. I got through it. I lost about 120 feet in elevation and turned a 1.1 mile hike into a .8 mile hike, but I don't care. I got through this thing! I'm happy. I'm also not hacking my lungs up, so I'm pretty sure I should increase the speed a touch for tomorrow if it's a similar elevation scheme and distance, but I haven't looked ahead yet, so I'm not sure.

For this walk, he mainly talked about filming a scene in The Hobbit. It was the scene in the water with the barrels. I'm not sure which movie it was, but I remember the scene. He was entertaining in his storytelling. This was the first one where we weren't watching TV too so I could actually hear him. I turned up the volume and my husband got to listen too. He loves the moves and knows which character this guy played. It was entertaining enough. We shall see what tomorrow brings! It's AGT night so I can't type for much longer. I included my walk below and what it was supposed to be with the speed. He's insane if he thinks I'm going to walk that dang fast on this! Nope not happening. He mentioned people starting slow and eventually running it. Nope! Not going to happen!

I hatched two Pokemon Go eggs before I got on the treadmill, so I won't have many eggs hatching after. The ones I got before were an Absol and a Shinx. After the walk, I got a Patrat. I wish I had remembered to pull up my phone while I was walking so I could have loaded something else into the egg cooker since I had less than a third to go on that egg. Oh well. I was busy trying not to fall off the machine! Have a great day/night whatever it might be!

iFit Scottish Highland Series Beinn Alligin Hike Part 3 The Highlands, Scottland Day 3

Today is Monday! It's also President's Day. Hubby had the day off, but I didn't. I woke up at 4:00 AM to make some phone calls for my side hustle. Then I took a shower and headed to work. I left early though since I had an orthodontist appointment and I had to pick up my contacts. I will now be slightly less stressed over my contacts since I now have plenty of back up pairs. It's rather stressful only having one pair of contacts that are your current prescription. What if one falls down the drain or it pops out at work and you can't find it? UGH! So the ortho appointment went well. They are going to take my braces off next week and for some reason the guy who had given up hope that my tooth would ever come down has now decided he thinks it might come down. Alrighty then. 

I got home around 3:30 or so and hopped on the treadmill. This was the third walk in the series and this is day 3 of my attempt to get through the series. Three days in and I'm still on track with the series. 

Okay, so I learned yesterday that I can adjust the speed and the machine will still follow the elevation changes.  This new knowledge made me a very happy person since some of these walks in this series are way too fast for me. This one for example! He has this thing at 2.9MPH to start. It goes up and down a bit from there depending on the hills. I can't do a sustained 2.9MPH. No way, no how, not happening! I'll get there eventually maybe. I think when we walk in the forest I can do that speed if I'm a downhill, but on a treadmill, it's just too hard on my shins and I just can't do it! 

Okay, so I started at 2.5 and then went to 2.6 after a minute or so. The elevation changes actually worked which was awesome! I still can't believe I didn't know about this! Anyway....... I was doing okay. My calves were a bit tight, but I did some killer hills two days in a row even if I didn't finish either one. So I decided that with 15 minutes to go, I was going to pop it up to 2.7MPH. I regretted the decision before I got to the 2.7MPH, but I still bumped it up. I knew it was going to be super hard to make it through the rest at 2.7MPH, but I kept it there. I would not let myself change it. I did my less than 15 minutes, less than 14 minutes, less than 13 minutes, less than 12 minutes countdown. I never made it to less than 11 minutes because the machine died on its own. I thought I was doing well keeping myself up close to the front of the machine, but it died so maybe it's not the placement on the machine. Maybe it just doesn't like to go downhill for sustained periods of time. This will need more experimenting. I think I'll try to do this one at the end of the series and do it with 2.6 the whole time instead of bumping up to 2.7. Not sure I'll be in the mood to listen to him rattle on though. I'm not in love with this guy as a leader. He talks about old stories which I guess is fine and I think something I actually wanted at some point in the other two walks, but his stories annoy me. Maybe it's his voice. I just don't know. It was funny to be doing this walk while my husband watched one of the Lord of the Rings movies. The guy in the video was in The Hobbit so it's the same family of movies. 

I only went a mile on this hike instead of the 1.6 I was supposed to go. I'm pretty bummed about that. Oh well. I can't change it now.

I hatched Pokemon Go eggs! The first was a burmy which is kinda blah other than I needed the candy so I can finish doing the evolves that I need still. I also hatched a piplup which is also rather blah, but I'm low on candy so I guess that's helpful. The third egg was a Minccino which I have oodles of and I have plenty of candy at this point. I thought this was just a one day thing, but maybe I had extra eggs I picked up that day and I don't remember them. If I had been able to finish this walk, I think I would have hatched two more eggs! I'm even more bummed about that little factoid. I only need 2 more candy to evolve my Riolu! I think he found a candy during this walk. 

Tomorrow is a little over a mile and there isn't much elevation. I'll have to adjust the speed again though. No way I'll be doing that one at 2.9. I just realized that I said there isn't much elevation, but yet there's 469 feet of elevation. The layout of the walk is very deceptive. I might just put it on 2MPH and see what happens. 

My attempt

What should have happened

iFit Scottish Highland Series Beinn Alligin Hike Part 2, The Highlands, Scotland Day 2

Today is Sunday! I get to go back to work tomorrow. I actually like my job so that's not a big deal. I have at least one more week of freedom! The chick at work that really brings me down will be out for another week. It might be longer, but we know at least this week. 

Okay, so today is Sunday and I'm trying to do this Scottish Highland thing in order. At some point, I might redo the first one that I failed at yesterday. So I picked this one since it was the second day of the program. I was a bit skeptical about it. There was an extremely long incline for the first 1/3 of this and then a little dip, big hill, big dip, big hill, little dip. I wasn't sure if I'd make it through the first section. About halfway up, I was all positive. I was doing the whole self affirmation thing. I was telling myself that I could do this and it wasn't that bad and I got this! Once it leveled out at the top and did the little dip and then went back to 15% or whatever it was, I felt good. Then we hit the 18% part and my heart rate was like 180 and I kinda wanted to die. I survived the 18% section, but then I hit the 0% so I'd go flat. I knew that I was going to need more recovery time before the next hill. I was coughing and couldn't breathe and it was just hell. 

Once I got down to 0%, it got even worse for a little bit. Not sure how, but it did. I was pretty happy that I had hit the 0% because if I was that bad flat, no way I would have survived that incline. I did learn something though. When I got down to 0%, the speed still changed with the trainer. Once we were done with the gnarly hill section, I hit the follow the trainer again and did that little hill before the end hill. Once we got up to 12% incline, I kinda wanted to die again, so I hit 0% after that was over and I just skipped the last big hill. This was a very educational walk. I think I'm going to do more control over the speed so I can see about doing these inclines. I could probably do better when them if I wasn't going as fast as they have it set. Hitting 0% was totally worth it just to learn that. I don't feel like a failure. I feel like I have new hope for future workouts in this series and in other video ones. I was happy that the video didn't die on me or freak out like it did yesterday when I tried to hit the button to follow the trainer. 

I don't think I talked much about the trainer guy in the walk from yesterday. His name is Graham McTavish. He was a hobbit in The Hobbit. He was also in Outlander. His chatter is mainly about him being an actor. I suppose that's fine and dandy, but it's not really what I expected. I guess if you like Graham McTavish, it could be fun to get to know more about him and his life. I don't know him, so I'm like eh. I'd prefer if he talked more about Scotland and The Highlands. 

During the cool down period, the machine looked like it was acting up so I hit the stop cool down button to see if it was responding. I should have picked a different button. It was responsive. It ended up shutting down the cool down so I didn't bring my heart rate all the way down. That was a regrettable decision. My heart is still kinda racing. My breathing is still a bit high and I'm still coughing. I kinda want to just lay in bed and fall asleep, but I'm covered in sweat, so that would be a bad idea. I can't take a shower since hubby turned on the dishwasher while I was on the treadmill. It's still going!

On a more positive note, I hatched a new to me Pokemon Go egg! It was a Darumaka. It is absolutely adorable! I have .27km to hatch another egg. Okay, I'm going to go sit on the couch and see if I can focus on reading a book while hubby watches TV and the dishwasher finishes.  

My attempt

What it should have been 

iFit Scottish Highland Series Beinn Alligin Hike Part 1 The Highlands Scotland Day 1

Today is Saturday. I took two days off after doing the iFit Easter Island Walking Tour. I couldn't decide what to do next. I was toying with the 1.5 miles, the 50 state parades, 2 miles, The Grand Canyon and the Scottish Highland Series. I've already done the 1.5 miles so I wasn't really wanting to redo them and 31 days felt like a big commitment. The 50 state parades was an even bigger commitment and some of them were over 3 miles so I wasn't sure how that would go. I wasn't in the mood to commit to 2 miles every night after work. I kind of like having the option to pick a shorter one if I'm in a blah mood when I get home. The Grand Canyon just seemed too scary, so I went with the Scottish Highland Series. The elevation seemed super scary, but it looked like he kept the speed down for the high parts and the walks were short so I thought I could handle this. Below is a screen shot of the preview of the workout. When I looked at it, I guess I didn't quite realize how long that high elevation section in the middle would be! 

I started out the walk okay. It started off at 8% incline I think. That was fun. Not. Then it went up a little and down a little. I was doing okay. I was out of breath and questioning if I would be able to do this whole thing. So then the thing went up to 30% for that first super high section. Once we went down, it only went down to 20%. My heart rate was through the roof. I pretty much wanted to die. I was seriously concerned if I would be able to hold on long enough. I was also realizing that the first section before that hill took about 8 minutes which meant I was going to be on that 20% to 30% section for at least that long. I let my negative side take over and convince myself that I just was never going to get through this. I actually said out loud that I couldn't do it. My husband told me I could, but I hit the 0% incline button and let it go all the way down. I wanted to catch my breath before the next hill. I was seriously concerned that I wasn't going to be able to hold on to the bars and I would fall off the back of the machine and hit the wall. 

Once I got down to 0%, I regretting hitting the button. I felt like a failure. I was very disappointed in myself. After I had finally caught my breath, I hit the button to follow the trainer. This should have started my incline going up to get to where he was in the walk, but it didn't. I kept going and thought maybe at the next hill it would go up, but it didn't. I decided to just listen to him and do my own thing. I increased the speed, but nothing happened. The time elapsed wasn't changing. I messed around for a bit and found a place where you can make the video the full screen without having all of the stats. Nothing was working as far as the workout controls though. I couldn't get the machine to pause the workout. I finally got the treadmill stopped by hitting the stop button on the machine instead of the tablet, but the video kept playing. I pulled the safety key and stepped off the machine. I rebooted and then came over here to start this post. 

I'm undecided how I feel about this whole series now. It was listed as a level 3. I did have some serious questions on if I'd be able to do it. I think I'm going to try day 2 tomorrow and see if I survive that. This one is 200+ feet more in elevation than the others, but some of the others are shorter distance so that elevation is in a more condensed area. We shall see what happens. 

I hatched an eevee in Pokemon Go. Why are Eevees still in eggs! That's so annoying. 

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 Anakena Beach Walk, North Coast, Easter Island Day 11 (For me, but day 13 for the tour)

Today is Sunday! I woke up, played on my iPad, took a nap, played on my iPad and then got on the treadmill! I have been dreading this two mile walk. I just knew he was going to make the whole thing 2.5MPH. I was wrong! He only made half of it 2.5MPH. There was a smidge of 2.4 and some 2.2 when we were on hills and then we went down hill and it was 2.7MPH for about 15 minutes! OMG I wanted to die! The whole first half of this I was telling myself, you just need to get through one more hill and you'll be fine! It's all downhill after that 15% blip. When he pushed it to 2.7MPH, I just wanted to scream. I honestly didn't think I was going to make it. I kept telling myself that as soon as we got to the last blip, it would go slower and stay that way. I was half right. It went slower for the 30 seconds on the hill and then we went back to 2.7MPH. My shins are killing me! OMG! On the upside though, I used to feel worse than this after only a mile, so I'm getting stronger! I pretty much kept my hands on the high bars for the bulk of this walk. I had them on the low bars for the flat parts in the beginning, but as soon as we hit 2.7MPH, I just had to hold on high. I'm glad I did this. I'm happy I survived without moving the speed slower. I'm also very thankful that this is over! I only have three walks left and they are all short. Hopefully, I'll be able to convince myself to do one each day for the next three days. We shall see.

I was pretty inspired to get on the treadmill since Pokemon Go is having an egg hatching event and there are some nice Pokemon in the 7km eggs. I bought a box Friday with a bunch of egg hatchers in it. I've got 9 eggs in the special egg hatchers that hatch in less distance. So my 7km eggs are hatching in 4.7km. I needed 2km to hatch about seven of them, so my 2 miles should have gotten me there! The first one was a male combee (UGH)! The second one is another male combee (GRR). The third one is a happiny (bleh). The fourth one is a gible. Pretty close to being able to evolve this all the way! Woot woot! The fifth one is another male combee. (what a waste!) The sixth one is a bronzor. (ugh) The seventh one is another bronzor. I really just want a riolu! I bought the egg hatchers hoping to get enough candy to evolve one since they say a Lucario is really good against Giovanni and I've yet to beat him. Oh well. 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Vai Mata Walk, North Coast, Easter Island Day 9(for me, but day 11 for the tour)

Today is Thursday! I wasn't really in the mood to walk when I got home, but I knew I'd be happier if I did. I picked this one because I thought it was next. I was wrong. Maybe I'll never be on track with these. I think it's hopeless at this point. The tablet part of the machine rebooted about halfway through. That's why I have flat lines for the first half. I took the heart rate monitor line off of here because it was a train wreck. At one point, it said my heart rate was like 62. I'm not even sure if my heart rate is 62 sitting on the couch watching TV. So anyway......I put the preview thing below so you can see what the beginning part really looked like. 

I was able to keep my hands on the low bars for the bulk of this. I put my hands up high when it was at the 10% incline section at the beginning and then again later in the walk when it was around 5%. This went pretty well. He was entertaining to listen to while I walked. My calves were a bit tight. I was so ready to get off of the machine when this was over. My belly wasn't feeling so good and the reboot extended the walk out. It was supposed to be just under 23 minutes, but it was a little over 24 minutes. It's not much time, but it was annoying. It doesn't help that when it rebooted, I forgot that it reset back to time elapsed, so at some point, I thought I had less than 10 minutes to go and I flipped the screen back to the main screen which should show time left, but it showed time elapsed and I didn't notice so I thought I had 16 minute left. I was pretty bummed out and it made me grumpy. Then I realized my mistake so I flipped it to time left. I only had 8 minutes left at that point, but the moment was over. I was annoyed and ready to get off. My belly is still messed up. 

I didn't hatch any Pokemon Go eggs either. Something is messed up with my Adventure Sync too. So far, I haven't gotten any credit for the walk. Oh, I take that back. I just got the Adventure Sync credit. Still no eggs hatched, but I got a heart for my buddy and also a candy for him. Woot Woot.

My experience

What it should have looked like

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Ahu Akivi Walk, Akivi, Easter Island Day 8 (for me, but day 7 for the tour)

Today is Wednesday. Not sure why I feel compelled to say that all the time, but it's now turning into my signature opening. According to my bed, I slept really well! I don't know that I agree with my bed. I was pretty tired all day. I had a job interview in the afternoon which meant I had the car so I picked hubby up and that means we get home sooner. I love getting home sooner. Just 10 or 15 minutes seems to be a huge difference! I thought we would get home late for some reason, so I was already planning my excuse not to walk. We got home early though so I had to walk! 

I picked this one that was only .7 miles. It was the day 7 walk and I'm on day 8 so I was trying to get caught up to being on track. I'll get there at some point. This was just under 18 minutes. It felt so fast! The fastest speed was 2.5MPH and the slowest I think was 2.1MPH. For the most part we were doing 2% incline with 2.5MPH. There was a 4% and a 6% incline blip. The speed slowed down for both of those. I almost felt like doing a second walk once I was done since it was so short. I was able to keep my arms on the low bar except during the 4% and 6% blips. I could have kept them low, but my hands just naturally go up there when I go up the incline. Overall, I'm happy with how this went. My calves were a little sore while I was doing it since most of it did have an incline even though it wasn't much of an incline.

I hatched a Pokemon Go egg. It was a Skarmony. Boring! I also got enough kilometers in so now I can do five more Pokemon Go Battler battles. 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Ahu Tongariki Walk, Hanga Nui, Easter Island Day 7 (but Day 6 for the tour)

Today is Tuesday! I got up and did some work before work and then I went to my day job. When I got home, I got right on the treadmill and picked this one. I thought I was on the right day, but I was wrong. Oopsy. I've done all of these mixed up though, so I'm okay with that. 

I managed to keep my hands on the lower rails for most of this. It actually went by pretty quickly too since it was only 26 minutes, but it turned out to be just over 25 minutes. He wrapped up his tour with about a minute left on the timer and then it went right to the cool down. I didn't walk that last minute. I find it odd that the heart rate monitor got all wonky too. It was crazy weird for a little bit. I think that part was because I was messing with my bra. Over the last few days, the thing has been more like an EKG than a heart rate monitor, but today once it settled out, it was kinda more normal looking. We shall see what tomorrow is like. 

Nothing hurt today. I barely even did a count down. I just listened to him ramble on about rocks and I kept walking. It was 2.5MPH the whole thing except 2.0MPH for a few moments in the beginning and the end. The incline never got over 4% so that was nice. 

I didn't get to hatch any Pokemon Go eggs.  

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 Ana Te Pahu Walk, Roiho, Easter Island Day 5 (for me, but day 8 on the challenge)

Today is Sunday! It's also the Big Game day. Why is it that we can't actually call it what it is? I don't know, but it's football and it's the championship, but the Patriots aren't playing so I really don't care who wins. I say this and then I just pulled up my app to see who was winning. FYI: At this point, it's the Chiefs, but the 49ers have the ball. Okay, so it's Sunday. We slept in! Once I got up, I played a game on my iPad. It's called Best Fiends and I adore this game. Today was the last day to get a costume for one of my fiends so I wanted to make sure I finished that task. Hubby made bacon and eggs for breakfast! It was yummy! I did a few calls for work and got some reading for my COC course done. There was a Pokemon Go Event to catch this cute little mouse Pokemon and it was just a three hour window to catch it. I got a bunch and one was shiny! Woot woot! 

When we got home, I knew I needed to get on the treadmill. I had looked ahead and knew that the next scheduled walk was 1.5 miles and I wanted it done today. I got up there and there were two for 1.5! This happens when I don't do a walk every day. It will reschedule the missed walk to the following day. I've got several walks schedule since I'm such a slacker. I picked the wrong one. I was supposed to pick day 5, but I picked day 8. Oh well. I got up there and I walked and that's what matters. 

This one started out at a 2% incline and then went to 10% within a few minute, but that 10% was for a very short period of time and they brought the speed down to 2.1MPH for that section. The rest of the walk never went over 2.5%. It was mostly 2.5MPH, but there was a 2.7MPH section. I wasn't thrilled about that. The machine beeped and he said he was going to, but before he finished saying what he was going to do, the machine kicked up from 2.5MPH to 2.7MPH. It doesn't seem like much, but it catches me off guard. It does the same thing when it goes slower. Faster is actually easier to handle than slower. Slower makes me feel like I'm going to fall over. It makes me not want to let go when I walk! 

This walk wasn't that bad. My right hamstring felt tight, but my calves didn't hurt like they did yesterday. I held on the whole time, but there were parts where I had my hands down on the low bar. The low bar is when I feel comfortable. The high bar is when I kinda want to die or the incline is intense. The middle is kind of in the middle. I did a lot of the high bar when we were at 2.7MPH. I didn't want to die, but I did feel more stable with my arms up high like that. Tomorrow's walk is only 1.1 miles! Woot woot! 

I really was hoping to do more than one walk yesterday and more than one today, but I still have school stuff to work on and work stuff to work on and fun stuff to do. I can make these walks feel like an obligation. I'm having fun with these video ones and there are several more to go, but it's only going to work if it keeps being fun. As soon as I feel like I have to do it, I'll stop doing it. That can't happen. I actually lost weight this week. no idea if that was just water or actual fat, but time will tell!

I hatched two Pokemon Go eggs after the walk. One was a Feebas! Make them stop! The other was a Dwebble. He looks like a hermit crab. I don't have enough candy to evolve him yet so I'm pretty happy to see him! 

Alrighty. Time to go do more reading for my class! I have to take the test on 2/22/2020. Hopefully I mass the first time around. I really don't want to have to redo this. Plus, the hospital I work for is going to give me some money if I pass soooooooo I gotta get this done. Maybe I'll be able to get a raise out of it too. Not sure yet since I just got one of those a few months ago. 

iFit Easter Island Walking Tour Maoi Road Walk, Rano Raraku, Easter Island Day 4 (for me, but Day 3 of the tour)

I was a total slacker yesterday! I was going to walk before work and get this 1.8 mile one out of the way, but we stayed up until 9:00 the night before so I slept in and figured I would walk after work, but then I felt icky after work. I got super hungry at work and ate some crackers that I knew would make me feel icky, but I was so hungry I just didn't care. I knew that I had to get this one done today or it was never going to happen! We went out for breakfast and did our shopping. We came home and I made a few phone calls for my second job. Once I was done with that, I got up on the treadmill and did this nice 1.8 mile walk. Okay so it was 1.79, but close enough. 

This one is day 3 on the calendar, but I did it on day four. Everything was going great, but then like two minutes in, the computer rebooted itself. The treadmill kept moving, but I had no video. When it finished it's thing, it started the video again and I didn't miss anything. I'm assuming that might have made the walk slightly longer than it should have been since the video started up again right before the spot where it had died, so I walked through the reboot process and redid a few seconds. I'm not complaining. There wasn't much elevation with this one, but it was the longest walk I've done in a long time. My calves started to hurt above five minutes into it. I did not have the warm fuzzies and thought for sure, I was going to fail this one and have to stop it from following the trainer. I really didn't want that to happen though. I pushed through it and made it to the end.

Before the walk, I noticed what looked like a headphone jack on the machine. I plugged in some headphones thinking it might be nice for my husband to not have to listen to the guy the whole time, but it still played through the speakers. I think the jack is mislabeled and you can run audio through the machine speakers if you have an aux cable, but I'm not sure. 

This walk was interesting. The leader is entertaining enough. It wasn't much different than the previous walks though. There's greenery and there are moai statues. This one had a couple cows, some horses and a group of quail. I didn't actually see the quail, but he said they were there. The tablet screen isn't very big though. Maybe if I had the giant 22" monitor I would have seen them, but not on my tiny 10" tablet. Sometimes I wish I had gotten the more expensive machine, but it was waaaaaaaaaaay more expensive so I'm satisfied with what I got. 

At this point, I'm just rambling, so I'll wrap things up. I hatched a Pokemon Go egg. It was a venipede. They are pretty new, but they are already getting old! Oh well. I'll see if I can convince myself to get back on there again later today and do another one so I can hatch more eggs. The next walk is 1.5 miles though. I might have to skip ahead and do a shorter one and then do the 1.5 miles tomorrow. I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't do these in the right order, but I did what I did to salvage a day that almost turned into no walking. 

iFit 1 Mile Challenge Mississauga, ON, Canada

Today was Saturday. I got to sleep in! Well, I got an extra hour, but we stayed up late late night so it was like not really sleeping in. I got up at 5:00 and made some phone calls for my side hustle. Then I took a shower and started breakfast. We powered through breakfast and then went on a two hour drive to Albany. I slept pretty much the entire way there. I slept a good chunk of the way back and I could fall asleep right now! Not sure why I'm so exhausted all the time. Maybe I need to go get a CPAP machine line my husband! It's helped him. Not that I have any indications of sleep apnea other than being exhausted all the time. Hubby hasn't said that I sound like I have it. My Sleep Number bed says I'm sleeping like crap so maybe my legs are freaking out in my sleep. I don't know really. 

I was so tired when we got home. I hopped on the couch and vegged out for a bit. We put on a Hallmark movie and I played games on my iPad until I convinced myself to get up and get on the treadmill since I really want to get these two walks done before the weekend is over. I picked this one because I've actually been dreading it since I knew there was no elevation changes. I put it on 2.5MPH and told myself I needed to stick with that no matter what I wanted once I got up there. I wanted a comfortable pace and didn't want to stress out my lungs. While we were in Albany today, I had a bit of an issue with my breathing. I was walking out of the bathroom and all of a sudden I could not get oxygen. It wasn't a coughing fit, but when I inhaled nothing happened. It freaked me out and then I did start coughing to try to force something to happen. I lost a lot of my vision during that. It's hard to explain. I saw the guy I almost ran into, but I didn't really see anything other than him. No side vision or anything. Then I was heading back to the table to get water and I saw my husband. I didn't really see anything around him either. I just saw him and a box in his hand that he was handing to me. All I could say was that I was going outside. I took the box and just walked away. I kept coughing for like five minutes. It was pretty sucky. I put in a cough drop eventually and things got a bit better, but deep breaths are still a little uncomfortable. My left leg also did some crazy stuff on the way home which really made me angry because I slept the whole way there. All that extra sleep should have bought me a freak out free drive home! UGH!

I got up there and did my 2.5MPH. It felt good. My lower left side hurt a bit, but not like it did before. My heart rate didn't get too high. I was two minutes slower on this attempt than my previous attempt. I think I was going for a record then. I'm pretty sure I was pretty update about not breaking the 22 minute mile mark since I was so close. I was at 2.7MPH for the majority of the walk and got up to 3.4MPH before it was over. Wow. I really need to get my ass in gear! No way I could do that right now! My 2.6MPH to 2.7MPH with Wroclaw, Poland was hard enough the other day. I just need to keep at it and eventually I'll get stronger and faster. 

One more 1 mile walk and then I'll have to bump up to the 1.5 miles! I've done them all before so I know that I can do them! I might not be breaking any records. I've toyed with the idea of doing the 1 mile ones again, but not letting myself hold on unless I'm on an incline, but I can't really decide. I think I'll the 1.5 and then after that is over, go back to some of the 1 mile ones and do those with no hands. 

I only hatched one egg in Pokemon Go. It was a Lillipup. How boring!

Mississauga, ON, Canada Attempt 2

Mississauga, ON, Canada Attempt 1