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Challenging myself in 2023

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In the last 3 months of 2021 I found myself being rather physically inactive, so I embarked on a walking challenge in 2022: I had to do a distinct walk on each day and average 5km across the 365 walks during the year. The challenge was eventually achieved, and raised a bit of money for charity. You can see some details here:- https://www.justgiving.com/page/alan-pickering-1667128827673 https://twitter.com/ad_pickering/status/1609581379750350850   Via the above links one can access the rather obsessive spreadsheet I kept, detailing each walk. I love a histogram almost as much as a spreadsheet, so here's the one for the distances achieved on the 365  walks in 2022:- After 2022, however, I got the bug for annual challenges and so I've set myself a combined reading and fishing challenge for 2023. I felt these two hobbies of mine had become a bit neglected in recent years.  The challenge is to catch 25 different species of freshwater fish in England and France, and a total of 365 fi