Karen writes: Feetbeat challenge

Raukura from the Mangere Eye Screening service reports that her team is going well with the Feetbeat challenge which has been going now for nearly 2 weeks.   I am sure there is some element of psychology going on here,  Raukura makes it sound like they are really KEEN, but I do love their team’s name, the Eye-pods.  Anyway, we have 3 teams covering all the staff at the DPT, except for Eileen who has managed to get her other workplace involved in the challenge too.  Kate and myself are doing a great job of dragging the teams we are involved with down.   You get allocated one ‘square’ for every half hour you walk in a day, and another square if you take a friend with you.  Obviously, we are doing plenty of exercise, not a lot of it has been walking, strange that.  Shame we have to follow the rules, we were speculating that if the challenge had started a few weeks earlier, we could have claimed 9 squares each for the marathon, and another 42000 squares for all the 'friends' we were out exercising with.

Anyway, it is a great challenge, encourages people in their workplaces to be more active, and we might just have to swallow the humiliation of everyone else contributing more than we are!   

As far as the training goes, yesterday I managed a swim in the morning, and got 60 minutes on the spin bike after the girls had gone to bed.   I have looked at the handlebars on the bike and it almost appears that I could possibly attach the laptop, now that would be good for those days on the plan marked “recovery ride”, I could study and cycle at the same time, now all I need to do is figure out how generate power as well.