Losing 50 kilos

Must say, I’m totally in love with different kinds of charts and graphs. I track all kinds of things, and so far it has helped me to keep focused and motivated. Nothing wrong there, right?

So, it was time for me to make a proper plan for my virtual walking trip to Scotland. Though in real life I don’t move out of my hometown during my walk, every step takes me closer to my goal - to which I’m planning to travel next year. That is Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in United Kingdom, located at western side of the Scottish Highlands.

Below is my plan put in detail in nice Excel file.

The numbers in the first column are referring to the steps in Google Maps on the route that I should travel in order to get where I’m going. I’m sorry I can’t really share the map with you in that sense, since it would reveal my home address. I can reveal my hometown though - I live in the Hague.

The ‘Length (M)’ column is length of every step of the map, in meters. I found easier to keep it that way to use it in calculations with my stride length. ‘Steps’ is how many steps are required to complete one map step.

‘Length (total)’ shows how much I have walked, in total - same goes for the amount of steps. I decided to put the total length in kilometres, since the end numbers would had otherwise become too big if kept in metres.

‘Money’ tells how much money I have gathered by walking so far. I promised myself that I’ll pay myself 1 euro per every 1000 steps. Today (Aug 13th) I walked 4217 steps, so I rounded it and paid 4.20 euros to my ‘bank’.

‘Achieved’ tells me when I completed a map step. I guess I’ll be doing just fine until I reach the virtual border of Belgium - after that the lengths of every map step become longer, longest one being 298 km after reaching Scotland. It’ll take ~432 000 steps to complete that one alone.

I love this kind of challenge!