James set himself a target of walking ten million steps this year. He sets himself a target every year, and this is the highest number of steps that he has aimed for. It was a huge undertaking and several times during the year he wondered if he had been too ambitious. He kept a running total of how many steps he needed to walk each day; this started very high at more than 27000 steps per day. Often he exceeded this, however sometimes if we were on holiday or the weather was particularly bad, he wouldn’t quite make his daily target. As the year went on, and he continued to achieve high numbers of steps, James could calculate that the number of steps that he needed each day to keep on track was steadily falling. He described this as “the dragon eating its tail” which I think means the feeling of acceleration when you approach the end of a task. By a couple of weeks ago it was clear that he was going to make the ten million, and today, Friday 12th December, more than two weeks early, James took his ten millionth step of 2025. What an amazing achievement.
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