So today was the first day of my Walking in Her Shoes Challenge and I’d like to start by thanking all my very very generous donors – I’ve not only reached but surpassed my original total of $400! Thank you so very much for believing in me enough to donate (and thanks for the wonderful words of support too).
So what did I get up to today on my very first day of walking 10,000 steps as part of CARE’s Walk In Her Shoes challenge?
Well, as flagged in my earlier post, I chose to walk to the house used in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – scroll down to the bottom of the post for a picture of me looking like a dork in front of the house!
And yes, it was only about 3.5 km and yes it only took me about 3,500 steps to get there. Moral of the story? I must remember to take smaller steps in future or face walking close to 10km a day to get my quota of steps completed.
So to get to the rest of the steps my mother, sister and I went shopping in the wonderful town of Melbourne and after a few hours of walking the various laneways, discount shopping centres and arcades that pepper this city I had reached this:
Unfortunately that was not the end of the day – we still had to get home and by the end of the day it turned out I’d been standing and walking in my heels for about 5 hours solid and had done just over 13,000 steps.
I can certainly feel it and have invested in a pair of gel pads for the balls of my feet (the women reading this blog will know what I mean) to make the rest of the week a bit more comfortable.
And yes, there are still 60,000 steps to go – so I’ll be doing it all again tomorrow. Not sure exactly where I’m going to walk to but I’ll be taking photos and telling you all about it tomorrow – stay tuned!
If you haven’t yet donated but would like to help me get to my new target of $650 – the page is here: http://www.walkinhershoes.org.au/priya_chandra.
I just love this house – isn’t it stunning?
Where I talk about lots of things 