GCC Coaches Challenge

By now you will have received an email from the GCC coach challenging you to do a personal best this weekend and he even suggested what you should aim for. He challenged me to do 20,000 steps. Not sure if I can do it, but I am going to give it a go. What about the rest of the GCC members, will you try for your personal best this weekend?

Clocking up steps in London!

I might be miles away, but I'm still clocking up those steps! Arrived in London at breakfast time this morning. After freshening up and a second breakfast in Russell Square, headed off to Regents park to try and ward off jet lag. Have clocked up over 13,000 steps so far, and the day is not yet done!

Dedicated ducks

It is pissing down with rain and two of my team ducks have just left for a walk around the lake. Me, I am happy to stay dry and work at my desk.

Good onya Boss duck and Xueimei, you are doing the team proud.

Debbi, here's why you're not one of the Lilydale Ducks,

Luv ya... Luisa

New PB

The combination of the tag game at lunchtime and a marathon 10 km on the treadmill in the gym last night gave me a new personal best of over 23,400 steps yesterday!!
But - so sore today that I'll probably struggle to get to 5,000:(

It was FUN!!!

Hey guys,

Just wanted to share that the TAG  game was awesome.
So we are going to fix Wed 12-30 to 1.30 pm for tag or some other games huh?

See you guys next week...

Lets Challenge the rest of Swinburne

Let's try and get all 4 Lilydale teams in the top 10 of all of Swinburne teams by the end of the GCC.

Did you know

Of all 23 Swinburne teams undertaking the challenge, the Lilydale Ducks are in 5th place.

Desperate times call for desperate measures

After sitting in a seminar all day yesterday at Deakin by 5pm I had less then 6000 steps. What to do!! A few laps of Kmart going up and down aisles, then whilst waiting for my daughter to finish cheerleading training a few laps of the car park. Later at home, I wore a track in the lounge room pacing up and down. End result, over 15,000 steps.

anyone of you have developed a peculiar walking style?

like this monty phyton clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w&feature=related

debbie wasn't invited...

Hey guys,

DO let me know if I've missed anyone from our GCC team...
 apologies, apologies.....

here is the make up for it . pick any of the 6 clips and be contended ;)

http://www.attentiondigital.com/ceo-apologies-on-youtube

Brilliant day on Friday

I managed over 21,000 steps on Friday - walking around shopping centres then over an hour running on the treadmill in our new gym.
But, less of a success on Saturday at my sewing class - a mere 3500 steps! Still, the overall average is respectable.

Hey steppenwolves... log your steps in

hmm.... c'mon guys. we need to keep up with the ducks ;)

what abt a game of tag ???

Hey guys,

I am thinking of having a game of tag just at the basketball court.

Rules:
No running , only walking.
Use only 1 court (unless too many people and it's a OHS concern)
Game ends in 30mins (or the whole lunch time ?).

what do you guys think and when can we do it?

i guess it's more fun than 3 or 4 of us doing laps by the lake...;)

cheers

Luisa here

Well I just have to boast ... Suku invited us to :-)

My first day was not so good as I just made it to 11700 steps and that was after doing some weird dancing in front of the heater for about an hour. But today has been a different matter.... I walked to Eastland and various shops in Ringwood clocking up over 10,000 steps by midday, then went on a bike ride with my husband (stopping for a yummy lunch at a cafe in Heathmont). Not sure what my final step count will be but I'm tipping it will be much better than yesterday.

I found this on the internet - a motivation clip

Hey guys,

It is 5.09pm I'm still in the office marking. Thinking of heading back home soon.
So I decided to search for some motivation on Youtube and I found this.

Here is one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxjqWa0P6xU&feature=related

And another - it's deep and touching - nevertheless it motivating - Stand Up, Try hard and Keep going... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlTdkYXuzE&feature=related

See you guys on Monday.

Im in!

Hmm.. managed it and am in! I'm only managing about 4,000 steps per day at present. Will have to step it up and let the wolf in me get more agresssive at steppen!

Suku's Day 2

Did a mere 10,710 yesterday.. thanks to my marking marathons and endless student presentations.

With much luck tried the lake today.. 1 lap takes abt 22 min and 5 seconds and is worth about 3,133 steps. Still not enough I guess -  might do a jog later in the day..;)  

@7216 atm

I think I'm in...

um

6,626 steps so far today :-)

Hi all

Welcome to all,

Let's keep GCC2011 going @ FHEL! Blog and motivate each other... and occasionally boast and randomly boo.

Have fun...