Tag: Walking

The first ten minutes

~ Veselin ~ 19 Comments

My 2024 fitness goal is to walk 10k steps per day on average. It’s a tough goal – 10k is 1h 40 min of walking per day, 3.6M steps annually, or 511 hours of walking. That’s a non-trivial amount of time and effort, especially on work days. Busy on Monday? Do 4k steps and you’re down 6k to make up on another day. Got Covid? That’s an easy 70k steps down, which need +1k/day over the next 70 days to catch up.

I tried a variety of tactics to keep the number above 10k. I did morning walks, replaced the city driving with walking, did 5h long weekend hikes. And when the winter season started, I got to under 10k anyway.

My new attempt is catching up with the treadmill in the evening. But it’s super difficult! I’m ready to give up any second during the first ten minutes of indoor walking. Not sure how to overcome that dread. I am so close to achieving the 10k annual average 🙂 Maybe 6-7 treadmill walks away. It’s either the treadmill or going out at 10pm in cold weather, with mud and darkness.

I’m open to ideas.

Borisova Gradina during the brightest part of the day.

Flowers

~ Veselin ~ 8 Comments

I was surprised to see this little fellow outside, after all the cold lately. We had several sub-zero days. The violets were fine, and were not alone.

It was also my first long morning walk from home to our shared co-working space in over a month. My current route is about 6km long. I enjoyed the weather and attempted to capture some blog-worthy photos with a mixed success.

Here’s a photo of a pigeon eating popcorn.

National Theatre Ivan Vazov

~ Veselin ~ 5 Comments

My daily walk today was past the Theatre. This used to be my favorite spot. I worked nearby and had mu lunch in the garden, watching hustlers play chess. It wasn’t as touristy back in the day.

I’ve never had the chance to be inside that building. Really wanted to do it as a kid, missed all opportunities, and now I only go to musical shows.