I Want To Believe... that this is not the end

At 7pm, July 25th I watched The X-Files the old fashioned way.... sitting down. Popcorn, candy, full fat Coke -- at last an X-File that wasn't good for me.

So that's it, the walk completed and the new movie watched. All that's left is to hope this won't be the last appearance of Mulder and Scully. And, I suppose, that I haven't made my last appearance on a treadmill!

X-Files 3? I want to believe.

It's done!

And finally, after 7 months, the truth is here.... I've completed Walking The X-Files! I watched the final episode Sunday, completing a 540 mile walk and I'm now 100% caught up on events before the release of the new movie. Take a look at my final stats on the right -- I had a weigh-in after the final walk and to my delight found I'd lost another pound in weight, so it's really true -- watching The X-Files IS good for my health!

Take a look at the video below to see how I marked the occasion.

The unseen X-File

Even before starting to Walk The X-Files, I'd seen most of the episodes multiple times. Some (like the Darin Morgan episodes) I've seen so often that I can almost recite the dialog. But there's one episode I'd never seen at all. The penultimate episode. I don't remember what happened when this episode orginally aired, I guess I screwed up setting the VCR, and although I've had many chances to watch it since I decided to wait for a special occasion. And today that special occasion arrived - after walking 199 reruns, finally it was time to watch a new episode. It turned out to be about a spooky Brady Bunch house and now, having finally watched it, I'm one episode away from completing my walk.

Walking into the final season

After a 10-day layoff for vacation, it's into the ninth and final season I go. Plenty has been happening on the walks: the final episodes of the eighth season were corkers, building up to the birth of Scully's (rather spooky) new baby.

Plenty has been happening off the treadmill too, including the first walk ever to be performed on somebody else's treadmill. While staying in Boca Raton I watched an episode at the hotel gym on my PSP. The rest of my vacation was spent on an all-you-can-eat cruise (and you better believe I did!). Fortunately some unrecorded weight loss in the rush of episodes before I left has meant that today, post-cruise, I'm still the same weight as I left - 176 lbs.

So it's into the last season, the last month, and the last 17 episodes. The new movie is in touching distance now!