November 2021 Exercise Thread

[sophy1996]

Welcome to the November 2021 exercise thread! No theme this month, but I'll help keep everyone on track as we approach the year-end holidays.

Welcome back! If you're new here's how to join us:

Each person chooses a time goal and posts minutes towards that goal as they exercise. You can post daily or just catch up when you can. You decide what movement counts towards your goal - which can be a nice round total for the month, a specific number that means something to you, or a calculation based on a target number of minutes per day.

Common goals for our 30 days of November:

15 minutes/day = 450
20 minutes/day = 600
30 minutes/day = 900
45 minutes/day = 1350
1 hour/day = 1800

One of the special motivations of our Disney challenge is color changing! Page one will be updated with individual and team color changes as we make more and more progress.

10% - Corn Yellow
25% - Pumpkin (Pie) Orange
50% - Bean Green (or Green Bean)
75% - Turkey Brown
90% - Cranberry Red
100% - Cornucopia Purple

November 1 started our challenge but join us anytime. Just post your goal and I’ll add you to the list. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions and to check out old threads to see what’s been going on.

Team:

BonnieF - 550/750
Elizabeth Smith - 805/800
piglet1979 - 818/900
PollyannaMom - 530/500
Raya - 266/450
sophy1996 - 1400/1400
Twilight Sparkle - 2630/2200

Team Total: 6999/7010 99.8%

 

[Raya]

Hey there! Thank you Sophy for starting the thread! Things are still crazy at work so I'm going to set my sights lower - 450 minutes, roughly 15 minutes once a day or 30 minutes a day every other day. Totally doable right? *fingers-crossed*

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm in as well (for my usual 500).

And many thanks for hosting!! I haven't taken a turn in a while, but I've been having pop-up problems on the site the past couple of weeks and was hesitating to volunteer for November for fear I couldn't follow through. I really appreciate you taking it on!

 

[PollyannaMom]

15 minutes Monday and 20 Tuesday, for

35/500

 

[Raya]

30 minutes walking and talking about our next trip home. Excited to see the Tower of Terror 10 miler race is coming back! The first/last time it went was my last in person race. Thinking training starts *soon*, maybe tomorrow?

30/450

 

[BonnieF]

Thanks for picking up the month, Sophy! We can all maybe post something fun along the way. I have surprise irises in bloom - amazing! I cut them in anticipation of last night’s frost.


I’m strugging to come up with a goal for this month. There’s just so much going on! My son and his gang will arrive two days before Thanksgiving and stay till the following Sunday! And, my daughter and I are going to Food and Wine next Saturday for 9 days! What was I thinking??? I’ll have only two days to prep for the big dinner. Adding fuel to this fire, I started physical therapy for my shoulder today - twice a week for at least six week- ugh!
I know I’ll get lots of minutes at WDW, but the rest of the month is up in the air. I’ll aim for 750 minutes, but I think I’ll (hopefully) exceed that!

 

[sophy1996]

60-minute Pilates class and 25-minute walk

110/1400

 

[sophy1996]

. . . We can all maybe post something fun along the way. . . .

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A great idea! I hope folks will post cool or uplifting photos -- especially from any Disney trips this month.

What lovely flowers!

 

[sophy1996]

Thinking training starts *soon*, maybe tomorrow?

Well, Disney "soon" could be tomorrow, could be months from now!

 

[piglet1979]

I am going to go with 900 minutes for now. I had a biopsy on Monday so I haven't been able to get many minutes in yet this month. I should know the results by Monday. The waiting is killing me. If it goes well then I should be good to hit this goal. If not this month might be a wash. I have been through this (precancer cells on my cervix) when I was 19 and they did surgery pretty quick. So I would expect the same this time if it comes back positive. If it does I will adjust my time.

 

[BonnieF]

35 minutes today - a beautiful fall day here in NJ. (35/750)

Piglet, Hoping for good news

Sophy, I'll be sure to post some pix! Any requests? We're at 9 days - is it too early to pack???

 

[piglet1979]

Got the results. It was normal. Such a weight has been lifted. I am good with the 30 minutes a day.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Skipped yesterday, but did 30 minutes today.

65/500

 

[sophy1996]

+50

160/1400

 

[sophy1996]

Congratulations to PollyannaMom and to me for turning Corn Yellow!

I saw a nice Disney-related story today. Disney kicked off the holiday season by donating $500K to Toys for Tots. And I didn't know this, but the Toys for Tots logo was created by Disney studios, back in 1947! In the early days of the program, Disneyland was the only drop site for toys in Southern California.

 

[sophy1996]

Sophy, I'll be sure to post some pix! Any requests? We're at 9 days - is it too early to pack???

I wouldn't mind seeing shots of some super creative or super cute holiday decorations!

Got the results. It was normal. Such a weight has been lifted. I am good with the 30 minutes a day.

So, so glad you got good news!!

 

[Raya]

40 minutes for me yesterday. We've been offered a chance to move to the magic - which has been a dream of ours for the last ten or eleven years. It may finally be happening! Then again, maybe it won't. Either way, lots of walking and talking in my future.

70/450 - 16%

 

[sophy1996]

+40

200/1400

 

[sophy1996]

Congratulations to Raya for turning Corn Yellow! The TEAM is almost there too, at 9.25%!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

 

[BonnieF]

35 minutes today - 70/700 - made the 10% !!!

Piglet - sooooo happy for you !!!! What a weight off your shoulders.

Sophy - the hotels are decorated!!! We do a tour of them, so I'll have lots of pix. The gingerbread house and the carousel are my favorites!

Raya - what an opportunity!!! Keeping fingers crossed.