and so the counting begins

well, the good news is i’m back on the street.  we’re having a 10,000 step challenge thing at work for the next 10 weeks.  apparently there’s something like 4000 people doing it across the company and we’re all in teams.  it’s very competitive.  and i’m not.

nevertheless it’s funny wearing a pedometer again after wearing one every day from the 2nd February 2004 to the 2nd May 2009. During that time i walked around 20 million steps and 10,000 miles.    When i worked in the centre of london i averaged 80km a week and then it went to nearer 45km when i started driving to work.  It’ll be interesting to see how much i end up doing here in the heat.  it was around 25degrees, humid and sunny when i walked down to the get the bus home this evening. however, today is the first day of autumn so we expect the temperature to plummet soon.

sorry, that was probably the most boring paragraphs i’ve written on this blog.  you didn’t deserve that. now for something more exciting:

i had a lovely treat at work today when jane came to see me for lunch.  we had giant burgers at a place near my office.  i keep forgetting how disappointing burgers are for grown ups.  these were no different sadly.  but it was the company that made it so lovely (!)

this evening i’ve been out for a stomp round the neighbourhood with Warren from up the road.  we walked for an hour during which time we managed to review a document about computer security for schools that Warren has written and i’ve provided some input in to.  luckily we finished before it got too dark to read what we’d both written.

and now it’s now. so there.