Of Beavers and People My Actifit Report Card: January 26 2022

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I have planned my day for today’s Final of #MAcFiT Season 5 Champions League - an Hive account@actifit tournament that I run. I won the first Season, but it had been scheduled during my summer vacations. Since then, the highest I have been able to get, was semifinals. So having won a spot in this season’s Final, I wanted to do my best to win it.

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Coming to beavers shortly. I did today two lengthy walks. My morning one took me along a local river. I live in a conglomeration (a set of more or less equally sized cities located closely to one another) that is inhabited by some 2.5M people. Yet, at the outskirts where I live, there’s a place where beavers live, too.

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The river has been regulated so that it doesn’t flood out if its banks. That’s the human point of view. The beavers, however, do everything to swell the river. Conflict of interests? Not here. The beavers can fall smaller trees. I have seen many signs of them doing just that. The bigger trees, however, are protected by thick rubber collars. The beavers like to dig holes in the artificial earthworks that keep the river in place. In many spots there are wooden sticks stuck into the river bottom, to prevent beavers from digging in. However, there are places where beavers can dig in and they do just that. The beavers live quite happily there. The river is clean, there's plenty of fish and no natural predators. Even though the whole length of the river there is either a footpath or a cycling path or both, the beavers have learnt that no harm comes from two-legged creatures. I like that in my area humans and beavers have found a way of peaceful cohabitation. The beavers are #AliveAndThriving here!

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Due to the Final and my ambition to try to best Hive account@browery (greetings, hope you have had a great day!) I set my new personal best - 48k steps is my lifetime highest step count on a working day. I went out at 6:30, was back home by 10. Then home office work. No sooner had I finished work than I was out again, walking. I visited my longtime friends (we first met 30yrs ago!). They live 6km from my place but I found a nice “shortcut” which took 12km. Back home at 23pm…

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So, well done I. #AliveAndThriving at its best. Oh, did I mention that I had managed to squeeze volunteering for local community into my long today? ;-) Okay, no more boasting. I do remember my yesterday’s update - less than 900 steps and huge chunks of time simply wasted. That’s being #alive too, isn’t it?

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