Losing 50 kilos

EDIT: I updated the ticker to match the new goal - Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in UK.

I decided I need some kind of goal for my walking. Me and my boyfriend have been talking about having a vacation together next year, but before this we hadn’t agreed on the location. I’d just like lay on the beach and he likes active city holidays. We both decided to step out from our comfort zone and do something we both could consider doing. Hiking on the rural Scottish Highlands countryside? Deal! (I thought of Ireland first but apparently he wants some MOUNTAINS, living in the Netherlands after all :P)

So, I needed a route for ‘training’. I chose Glasgow as the goal, even though a real Scot would murmur that it’s still on Lowlands side. From my hometown, it’s 1164 km there. My stride is 0.69 m, so that’s around ~1.7 million steps. Even if I do just 5000 steps a day, it’s still just 340 days - well enough to be completed before we embark our journey (we were thinking about early September 2011).

I actually had to tape a paper inside my front door to remind me that I keep pedometer with me every time I leave the house (I don’t use it inside, because my apartment is rather small). I guess I’ll start with the 5000 steps a day, gradually increasing it when I get into better shape.

This will be interesting :)