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  • A Different Challenge

    A Different Challenge

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like the long project but I decided to try a shorter one first.

  • Walking With A Fear of Dogs

    Walking With A Fear of Dogs

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI walk every single day, whether it’s raining, windy, snowing, a heat wave and more. I like heatwaves because dog walkers usually stay in. We live in an age and society where fear of dogs is not respected. Yesterday I was on a walk and i saw two big dogs. One was…

  • Garmin’s Auto Goal

    Garmin’s Auto Goal

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesGarmin allows you to select the number of steps you want to take in a single day, or let it be set automatically. For a year or two I allowed the goal to set. The result is a step goal that fluctuated from 12,000 steps per day to 15,000 steps or more.…

  • GPS Accuracy Contrast Between the 45s and Instinct

    GPS Accuracy Contrast Between the 45s and Instinct

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday afternoon I was looking at the GPS track for a run I did with the 45s and I was struck by how wide of the mark it was, compared to the same run with the Garmin Instinct. With the Garmin instinct the GPS track fits like a rail to the satellite…

  • One Hundred Day of 10,000 Steps

    One Hundred Day of 10,000 Steps

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday marks 100 days in a row of walking 10,000 steps a day. It helps that we’re in winter than in summer because my step streaks are broken when I go for bike rides. Step counters don’t count pedalling as steps, so it’s easy to lose a streak. I could pretend that…

  • A Run And A Walk

    A Run And A Walk

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI am going for a run and a walk three times a week at the moment. The run is set by the Garmin Coach and the walk is set by the route I have chosen to use on that specific day. By running the first part of my daily walk I increase…

  • Mud and Walking

    Mud and Walking

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI go for walks, runs or bike rides every single day, whether it’s rainy, windy, snowy or a heatwave. As a result of this I often walk along routes where mud forms. Sometimes I come home from walks and my shoes are spotless, thanks either to a drought, or paradoxically due to…

  • A Walk To Los Molinos from Javea

    A Walk To Los Molinos from Javea

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis walk takes you from the Port of Javea up to the lighthouse near San Antonio before continuing along the top towards Los Molinos. These are old grain mills. They used wind power to grind grain for several centuries before being taken out of action as modernisation arrived. The walk takes you…

  • StepsApp

    StepsApp

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking and taking steps could be seen as boring. It’s something we do every day, without thinking about it. At conferences we can easily take 20,000 steps a day, when we’re standing for the entire day, with barely any opportunities, or need to sit, except when eating or getting from A to…

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and then…