I started on Jan 1st and have just completed 50 miles.
I'm pretty pleased with myself
Any other afibbers doing the 1000 mil... - Atrial Fibrillati...
Any other afibbers doing the 1000 mile challenge this year?
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Yes, well done. It's a tiny bit under 20 miles a week. I think I can clock that up too. I walk for just short of an hour most days and often for longer if it is not raining.
Well done Mikee, but if you don”t mind I’d prefer to watch from the car with the heater on.....🤪👍
On a more serious note, I have done this since my AF started. Come rain or shine every day I walk briskly 1.5 miles early morning (with Nordic poles) and 1.5 miles around 5pm . I look at it as a necessary lifestyle change to help prevent blood clotting. Keep it up, it may be a tad boring but it has lots of other health benefits.
and so you should be, WELL DONE!
Oh dear I've only done 18 miles since january 1st im posting this so that i can now improve might not make 1000 in the year but I'm hoping to improve. Thanks for the kick-start 🚶
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I have done 3 miles today feeling proud and inspired thank you. 😘
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Well done you!
It won't take long to chip away and catch up.
I've only managed 1 mile today
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I walked 3 miles home very happily in sunshine from town today but it took me an hour and 20 minutes. I took it slowly because it was mostly over the fell, quite muddy and not easy going. I don't think it did as much for my heart as 30 steady minutes on the treadmill. However, it was the sort of walk that, five years ago when I was timid and felt quite old, I had thought I had given up because it's steep in places and there are ample opportunities to slip or trip. I feel very lucky to have this sort of walk on my doorstep and be able to enjoy it. It's not exactly off the beaten track but I only saw three other people and if I'd come to grief I could have waited for a while before someone came across me.
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Aye up lass, make sure you tek tphone or a whistle. If you have gps you can use tinternet to get theeself a fix. Ows tsnow?
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That's really good and much better for you than the teatmill I would have thought, you could do a walking meditation or mindfulnes walk as it changes through the seasons, that's what I'm going to try and do.
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Yes, I really enjoy the opportunity to let my mind unwind and escape that walking gives me. I had quite a ticking off a while ago during one of my annual sessions at the surgery when I said I didn't walk outside because I was too scared to do so. I was denying myself fresh air and sunshine and the sights and the sounds of the countryside. At the time I was so irate I could clock up as much as ten miles in a day on the treadmill and was averaging 21,000 steps per day. I'm a long way from that now.
The treadmill is safer than alfresco expeditions. In the last 25 years I have had five encounters with the ground whist out walking and was severely whiffled by them, apart from the inconvenience of plaster, crutches and suchlike, the life-long scars and the weeks / months of pain and incapacity and the possibility of breaking some bone and being unable to catch a flight home. I was very lucky in Copenhagen not to break anything going down eight stone steps in a roly-poly manner a few hours before we left. Fortunately I just had a number of minor injuries to elbows, shoulders, a wrist and an ankle.
I have only had a couple of bad knocks since I have been taking an anticoagulant and am now much less frightened than I was when anticoagulation forced its way into my life. It's a sign of real buoyancy to be able to do what I did yesterday. It must be five or six years since I last walked that route.
I do understand how you feel so maybe build up gently. I have a gorgeous woodland stick when i go on uneven ground, i call it merlin it keeps me safer. I too have fallen badly downstairs so i know how you feel but the fresh air and daylight are so good for us. Have you watched Dr Gupta's video called what we can learn from baby elephants? its on YouTube it was a major turning point for me.
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I haven't watched the video as someone said it was sad! Yes, fresh air and daylight do us more good than we imagine. Falling is very bad news. I took a chunk out of my knee last year at the end of a 3 mile circle when I was on a smooth surface no more than 20 yards from our house. I have the feeling I'd find a stick or poles an encumbrance. Perhaps I am wrong here.
I used to go skipping over mountain ridges and I wondered why people bothered with poles. Now I am older I tread more carefully. 2 lightweight LEKI poles make a vast difference and help to make my strides more balanced. I try to organise my walks so there is a coffee stop half way round where I can leave my poles behind every now and then.
My target at the moment is to find 6 mile circular walks that don't involve walking alongside noisy, stinking roads. Old railway tracks are great and my local council is doing a good job of reclamation. Got to watch out for the bikes though - although they can provide interesting street cabaret at times. Fast bike with no bell + dogs on long lead = interesting language.
I have become a big fan of Nordic walking and find that I can develop an easy, swinging, natural rhythm that gets my body balanced and is very useful going uphill
100 miles done,
Legs hurt
i'm 3 " shorter
Well done Mikee! Just about on target for 1200 miles then.
I've looked at the 1000 mile web page but have not put my name down. I have however been keeping a record of how far I've gone with 30 minutes treadmilling per day and I've improved since the beginning of the year. I normally walk up and down our lane daily as well which adds a mile and a half - usually in the morning but have just got back now, with cold hands and very cold feet.
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You are doing really well.
I know my fitness has improved, and my recovery time has reduced, so that's all good.
I broke into a jog last week, but I think I have plantar what's it so have had to back off a bit
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Yes, feet need to be in good working order. I have trainers just for the treadmill and use jelly soles.
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