It's a bypass - you've got to build bypasses

A nice long walk this afternoon, with a couple of side detours to look at progress on the overbridge. Yesterday they were swinging a large pre-formed concrete slab into place, and today they've hooked it up with another one to form a box reminiscent of the monolith from 2001 - which obviously is going to be one of the bridge support columns. I must remember to go for my walks earlier. By 5pm the light is fading and my photos tend to look as though I had used a blue filter. I'm posting this one anyway, because it amuses me to see manhole covers and their associated pipework sticking up out of the ground, way over the heads of the works below. I know, small things amuse small minds. Anyway, I finished my circuit and was on the verge of going back to work when I decided I would go a couple of blocks in the other direction and pick up a Subway for tea. After all this, my pedometer registered 625 steps. I must be doing something wrong.

Yesterday

The circuit was easier again this time - yay! A few more days of this, and I'll be able to extend it again. This time I used my cellphone to take a couple of pictures along the way. The first one shows the beginning of the motorway where traffic leaves Vivian St for more northerly places and the earthworks that are slowly becoming the new so-called bypass. The second photo, just a little further along, shows the hole in the ground that is destined to become the new Ghuznee St overbridge. Step count for the day: 3392

I walked around the slightly longer, slightly uphill block again. It was slightly easier. Today's step count: 2977. Step count required for 1 WW point: 4910

Not the best day on record

Not to complain too much, but I hate Dell's website and their ordering system when it doesn't work. However, I did go for a walk. I just went around the block again, but this time I selected a block that contains a small amount of slightly uphill. Damn, it felt like hard work just going up that gentle bit. I'll just have to keep at it, I guess. During the course of the day I have walked 3043 steps or 1.674km if my pedometer is to be believed. That's not even enough to earn me 1 weight-watchers brownie point. I can see I'll have to put a bit more into it.

I just fished out the tape measure and found that it takes 9 paces for me to walk 5 metres. This means that I have somehow managed to walk 880m during the course of the day, and that's without going for that walk around the block that I was supposed to do. Tomorrow I will do it for sure.

Back to square one

It's been over a year since I posted here, and in all that time I've only done a handful of semi-serious walks. This is not good - my fitness has gone downhill badly, and my weight has gone up accordingly. So it's time to bite the bullet and start all over again. I have bought a pedometer, although I'm not sure it's counting my steps correctly, and I still have to find out how long my pace is so it can translate steps into approximately correct distance. My objective for now is go out during the day, every day it doesn't rain, and walk around the block. I've done that twice so far this week.