Tales of the Village - I would walk 500 miles......

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Today is the 1st of July and it's the first day of the Diabetes UK 'Million Step Challenge' which is designed to (not surprisingly) raise money for Diabetes UK but also to make those of us who sign up get out and get moving more. One million steps in three months is about five and a half miles a day. My fitness tracker is set to buzz at 10,000 per day and in the normal course of a week, I would typically set it off a couple of times. Now I need to maintain a rate of just under 11k per day for 92 days. At the moment, I'm helping our local candidate for an upcoming District Council election and we are leafleting like people possessed. I did about 13k steps yesterday and 23k today. That means I've done twice the target today and may well need those 'in the bank' later in the challenge if I get a quiet day or two. Trouble is that today I pretty much ache all over. I'm cursing all the people with stiff letter boxes, all those with boxes at the bottom of their doors, and all the ones with LONG driveways. We've probably done about 500 houses but they're spread out all over the place. On the plus side, we're getting to see bits of the village we've never seen before - and we've lived here for 15 years.