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Mark Pulmano

Nationwide Walk 50K in September 26

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My Activity Tracking

113
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My target 50 kms

Walk 50K in September

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My Achievements

Received First Donation

Added Blog Post

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Self Donated

Reached Fitness Target

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Received 10 Donations

Received 5 Donations

Reached 50% of Fundraising Target

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My Updates

All done!!!

Thursday 1st Oct
Massive thanks to everyone who supported me! ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks to all of you I've raised more than my goal of £250 🥰

And for my walking, I've done 112.5 kms 😊 - more than my initial target of 50 kms, and more than my personal target of 100 kms. Might've been a bit more, but the 112.5 kms is what I've recorded on my watch (it's old and has a crappy battery so some walk recordings were cut short and some walks weren't able to be recorded).

Thank you, everyone!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Yay!

Wednesday 30th Sep
Did my 100 kms of walking! Just put in yesterday's walks and I'm up to 104.5 kms. Got some walks this evening (mid-week jive dance class) and I'll put them in tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing my total for September :-)

Getting close to my 100km target

Tuesday 29th Sep
After my emergency dental appointment + antibiotics last week I didn't walk for a while. But the course of antibiotics finished on Saturday, so I started walking again on Sunday.

Logged Sunday's walks plus yesterday's (Monday) huge session - walked to work, then to the dentist for a followup check-up (my tooth is fine!), then home, then dance class, then out for a burger (to celebrate my tooth being ok), then home.

And the dashboard has caught up - I'm now at 97.3 kms :-) :-)

A couple of challenges...

Wednesday 23rd Sep
I've just added in my walks for the last week and a bit. 

Challenge 1: didn't get to walk as much as I wanted to last week as a really busy evening social schedule meant that I ended up taking lots of public transport rather than walking. 

Challenge 2: ended up with an emergency dental appointment on Monday night, and now the infection and/or antibiotics have made me really tired, so it's more public transport again. 

Still, I'm hoping I'll feel better before the end of the month so I can get to, or somewhat close to, a 100 kms of walking.

Distance target achieved! (but I'm still going to keep on walking)

Monday 14th Sep
And the stats have just updated - I've made my 50 kilometres! I'm going to keep walking, though - now planning to go for 100 kms for Sept. I'll leave my target as it is (at 50 kms), though, unless someone let's me know if there's any benefit to raising it here on the system.

Massive thanks to everyone's who's supported me on my fundraising - you're all so awesome!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Added a couple of days of walks

Monday 14th Sep
Just added in yesterday's walks, and then realised that I'd missed last Thursday's walks, as well as recording Saturday's walks as having been done on Friday. So I'm all up to date now and all the activity entries are fixed up and correct.

Did a walk this morning, but I'll add in today's walks tomorrow because jive dance class is on tonight, so that'll be a bit more walking today.

Quiet Friday

Sunday 13th Sep
I worked from home on Friday. That, and a social that I couldn't get to on time unless I took public transport meant that I didn't record any walks on Fri 11 Sep. Still, I've done some walks over the weekend and I'll add them in.
Thanks for reading my updates! :-)

Fundraising goal and distance goal

Thursday 10th Sep
Quick update - I've achieved my fundraising target! 😊 
Think I'll be increasing my walking target, but I'll do this when I get closer to my 50 kms walking target. 
My deepest thanks to everyone who has supported me ❤️

Small parks

Thursday 10th Sep
I've just put in yesterday's walks (for Wed 9 Sep). Part of my walks yesterday included a couple of parks - the park at Russell Square and Tavistock Square Gardens. Today's trivia: Tavistock Square Gardens is a park dedicated to peace :-). I haven't got any pics, though - it was another post-sunset walk and it would've been another (really) dark photo.

Over half way!

Wednesday 9th Sep
I've just put in yesterday's walks (for Tue 8 Sep), and I'm now just over halfway. Not much else to write about today, but it's nice to see some steady progress.

Monday's walk

Tuesday 8th Sep
Had a good day for walking yesterday. Couldn't walk much on the weekend because I had a few twinges of gout and didn't want to stress my foot. But, hey, yesterday was jive dance class (beginner level!) and, for personal reasons, it has a very high priority. So I managed to get a good walk in, going to & from class.

Sunset at King's Cross / St Pancras

Tuesday 8th Sep
This is from last Friday's walk - another sunset pic. Not sure when I'll get to take a pic in the middle of the day. I was hoping to take a pic of the architecture of St Pancras station, but I just got a silhouette this time. Update: hmmm, this blog keeps cutting off the bottom part of the pic - well, at least you get to enjoy the sky :-)

Happy Friday!

Friday 4th Sep
Just a quick update - I've added yesterday afternoon/evening walks to my Activity log. Working from home today, but I'll go for a walk this evening to keep my progress ticking over.

Red Lion Square (again)

Thursday 3rd Sep
I'm pretty sure Nationwide / the Co-operative Building Society's headquarters was somewhere behind these trees (most likely on the left side of the pic). Apologies for the pic being quite dark - I was still at the office at sunset.

Red Lion Square

Thursday 3rd Sep
Part of Nationwide's history.

Starting to get into my walks

Thursday 3rd Sep
Ok, I've added yesterday's post-work walk and this morning's pre-work walk to my Activity tracking.

Also took a couple of photos of Red Lion Square yesterday - the pics are a bit dark (it was the early evening) but I wanted to put the pics in because Nationwide once was headquartered there (as Co-operative Building Society) in the early 1900s. Oh, yeah, and I worked at Red Lion Square (at Cable & Wireless) in the early 2000s. Lots of memories here :-)

I've started!

Wednesday 2nd Sep
Hi everyone,
I was on holiday yesterday (for a slightly longer bank holiday weekend) but today I've started my walks :-) 

2 kms this morning, and there'll be a bit more this evening.

Hopefully I'll work out how to do blog posts from my phone so I can some pics to make this a bit more interesting.

First blog entry

Wednesday 26th Aug
Testing doing a blog post so I can figure out how to do updates / blog posts during my walks.

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Best of luck with the walking Mark - very worthwhile cause

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Enjoy the walk. Good to see you getting physical

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Mark Pulmano

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good luck Mark

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