Bruce Dodson
4  year  Mo Bro
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Target: $500
raised $720 since 2020
My motivation
Fundraising for cause areas including:
Men's health

Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men's health, and this year I'm joining them again.

I am passionate myself about the following men's health ssues:

* Men have too much of a tendency to grit their teeth and bear it; we need to pay attention and seek help when something is wrong.

*The health care system has too much of a bias toward familiar conventional solutions, and will definitely try to jam a square peg into a round hole rather than do the work of identifying what's really going on, even when it's very hard to tell. So when we do go for help.

* The approach of waiting for the patient's symptoms to get so severe that they can finally be seen, or dismissing it as mental health if they can't figure it out, is a reprehensibly unenlightened approach to medical care that must be addressed.

How I'm
getting involved
Esri Canada does Movember
$0 Team funds raised
0 of 120 kilometres
walking
running
I'm doing 60km this Movember for the 60 men we lose each hour of every day; and doubling down with at least 60 more for men with complex disease and trauma who suffer in silence, as I also did before.
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Previous year's activities
39 Week(s) Ago
I walked 7.2 km

walked 9,100 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

Previous year's posts
39 Week(s) Ago
I walked 7.2 km

walked 9,100 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

Previous year's donations
40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 8.6 km

walked 10,816 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 8.6 km

walked 10,816 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4 km

walked 5,070 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4 km

walked 5,070 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4.7 km

walked 6,069 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4.7 km

walked 6,069 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4 km

walked 4,947 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4 km

walked 4,947 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5 km

walked 6,293 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5 km

walked 6,293 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6.6 km

walked 7,776 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6.6 km

walked 7,776 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 9.6 km

walked 11,953 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

40 Week(s) Ago
I walked 9.6 km

walked 11,953 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 11.7 km

walked 14,526 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 11.7 km

walked 14,526 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6 km

walked 7,622 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6 km

walked 7,622 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6.2 km

walked 7,681 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6.2 km

walked 7,681 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4.5 km

walked 5,621 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 4.5 km

walked 5,621 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5 km

walked 6,225 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5 km

walked 6,225 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Dan Bulger
$250

nice stache dude

41 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Dan Bulger
$250

nice stache dude

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 10.7 km

walked 13,494 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 10.7 km

walked 13,494 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5 km

walked 6,293 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5 km

walked 6,293 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

41 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Margaret Anne Dodson
$50
42 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
$50
42 Week(s) Ago
I walked 10.7 km

walked 13,430 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

Previous year's posts
42 Week(s) Ago

As of yesterday I smashed through 3x the default suggested target for a move challenge, one and a half times my target, which I chose as a non-push challege. There was one time when I realized I had pushed myself too far, as it brought on more profound brain fog, a relapse of a cold due to an energy starved immune system, and two days of post exertion malaise, the hallmark symptom of one component of my own complex chronic disease profile.

I am blessed to have this much movement and I don't want to abuse it; there are many with this condition who are bedridden, and at one time I came close, last spring and also a few years ago. And more intense activities than walking are limited to much shorter durations.

With this in mind I will try to target a steady 10,000, soft maximum 11,000 knowing there's often a penalty if I exceed it, but also cognitive benefits to walking 10,000 steps. On days with lots of high-intensity activity, I'll probably shift the steps target to 7,500 with a soft max of 9,000. And on crash days it might be 3,000 or less. I may not report every day but at the end of the month I'll go back and scan through my Garmin stats and record where it landed.

See my page for my Mogress, from the anti-stash I plan to sport again afterwards, to the clean shave and restart at mid-month now sporting a nice little French liplash.

Also please go there to donate; currently sitting with default target of $500 and actual sitting at $10; thank you to whoever did that; wonderful. No expectation of where it will land, but always hoping the best for the cause.

42 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6.2 km

walked 7,824 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

42 Week(s) Ago
I walked 3 km

walked 3,782 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

42 Week(s) Ago
I walked 6 km

walked 7,498 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

42 Week(s) Ago
I walked 5.9 km

walked 7,457 steps while pacing with an energy limiting complex chronic disease

44 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
$10
197 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Margaret Anne Dodson
$50
197 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Michael Collins
$50

Mo' Better Bruce!

250 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Michael Collins
$50

Nice Mo Bruce!

250 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
$50

PROSTATE CANCER WILL BE BEATEN!

250 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
an anonymous supporter
$100
253 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Bryan Ling
$20
253 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
Simon Biickert
$20

Mo, Bruce, mo!

253 Week(s) Ago
Donation from:
David Blanchard
$20
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