Leaping February 2024 — Step Challenge and Picture Scavenger Hunt

[Baltoscott]

It’s a LEAP YEAR! You get one extra day this month to walk, run, and LEAP to your goals — especially important if it’s already time to reset your January resolutions.                                        

How It Works

The primary purpose of these monthly challenges is to keep track of your daily step goals for the month; though many of us track other things as well, like body weight exercises, sleep, trips to the gym, logging food, etc. This is not a competition to see who can do the most of whatever, instead it is a challenge to measure your consistency. So whether you do 1k, 5k, 10k or even 40k steps a day, this is measuring how many days out of the monthly total you can hit your goal.

Some might have a constant goal of 10k steps every single day and others might have a variable goal throughout the week, (and some might even plan days off!) for example.
Monday -> Friday = 10k steps a day
Sat & Sun = “6k steps a day,” or “not tracking”

Regardless of how you structure your daily goals, the only thing that matters for the monthly challenge is whether or not you reach what you set out to do.

Suggested Posting Format    
1) Post either your constant or variable step goal.
2) Keep track of the # of daily goals achieved out of the monthly minimum and or monthly total

Picture Scavenger Hunt — 3 pictures

Three ideas for your three pics this month: 1. It’s a leap year, so any picture with number 29, or someone or something LEAPING. 2. Valentine day on the 14th, so pictures with RED or Valentine’s references. 3. Wildflowers. They may be a bit rare this time of year in the northern hemisphere, but they make great pictures against wet/muddy/snowy backgrounds. Should be a lot of opportunities to score some good scavenger hunt pics so even if you can find one of each, feel free to post more than three over the month.

Redhead Ducks.Above - Two Redheaded ducks. Leaper and Sleeper.

Posting

Although you certainly don’t have to post daily, you’ll likely stay closer to what you set out to do by updating the thread several times/week

Injury Notice
If you injure yourself during the month and need to scale back due to the injury, then all you have to do is adjust your goal for that period. If you normally do 10k steps a day but pull a hamstring and decide to do minimal walking (2k steps a day), then all you have to do is change your goal.

[Baltoscott]

Leaping February Day 17

17K steps/day for 25 days		13/25
1 pushup for 25 days		17/25
13 weight-lifting days		3/13
post 3 scavenger pics		3/3
Sleep 6:10 hours + 20 days or more during the month		9/20
1 pull-up for 25 days		17/25
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 18 days		15/18
20 dry days		8/20
Beat February 2023 bike mileage (240.4 miles)		133.3
100 zone minutes 20 days.		9/20

@Vidd - no flowering trees here yet, but crocus are starting to pop up. 

Getting a pic of the crosswalk countdown at 29 seconds was harder than I thought it would be. Apparently there is some flicker going on that isn't perceptible to the eye, but my iPhone was picking it up. 

Crocus29 seconds

[jantonini]

So many awesome pics this month!!

Leaping February Day 18

10k steps per day (Sundays) -  2/4 days

13k steps per day -  9/14 days

16k steps per day -   3/4 days

18k steps per day -  3/4 days

Over 20k steps per day - 1/3 Days: 1-21,165

Weights -  8/14 days 

Yoga/pilates/stretch - 8/14 days

90 oz Water every day -  18/29 days

4 lb weight loss -  1/4 pounds lost

Mindfulness/Meditation at least 3 minutes-    3/7

February pictures.  2/3

So, below is something I feel that was “leaping” across the sky (with some red) as I came out  of 1 of the high schools I observe 1 of my student teachers at. Just crazy, right? 

 

[Baltoscott]

@jantonini - that is a beautiful sky!

[Baltoscott]

@Vidd - the robins are fun to watch at the birdbath. Ironically, they remind me of those old drinking bird toys. 

[NellyG]

19 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      11/15

10 days over 12,000                                         10/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 4/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   27/35

100km on my bike                                             93/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[Baltoscott]

Leaping February Day 19

17K steps/day for 25 days		15/25
1 pushup for 25 days		19/25
13 weight-lifting days		4/13
post 3 scavenger pics		3/3
Sleep 6:10 hours + 20 days or more during the month		10/20
1 pull-up for 25 days		19/25
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 18 days		17/18
20 dry days		11/20
Beat February 2023 bike mileage (240.4 miles)		146.4
100 zone minutes 20 days.		9/20

[NellyG]

20 February

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      12/15

10 days over 12,000                                         10/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 4/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   30/35

100km on my bike                                             98/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[SteppingBooks]

Leaping February 15 through 19

12.8K Steps/Day, 21 Working Days: 3/21

10K Steps/Day 8 Off Days: -/8

2000 Calorie Limit/Day: 18/29

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 19/29

Weights 2x/week: 6/8

Stretch 4x/week: -/15

Squats 30/day: -/10

80oz Water daily: 02/29

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 118,025/337,000

@Baltoscott  Trying! lol

[NellyG]

21 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      13/15

10 days over 12,000                                         11/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 5/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   32/35

100km on my bike                                             98/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[Baltoscott]

Leaping February Day 21

17K steps/day for 25 days		17/25
1 pushup for 25 days		21/25
13 weight-lifting days		4/13
post 3 scavenger pics		3/3
Sleep 6:10 hours + 20 days or more during the month		10/20
1 pull-up for 25 days		21/25
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 18 days		18/18
20 dry days		13/20
Beat February 2023 bike mileage (240.4 miles)		173.5
100 zone minutes 20 days.		11/20

[NellyG]

22 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      14/15

10 days over 12,000                                         12/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 5/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   33/35

100km on my bike                                             98/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[Vidd]

Leaping February Day 22

50 floors every day we're at home.	22/29
3 walks with Walter the collie every day, wherever we are.	22/29
Play the piano to Walter every day.	22/29
In bed by midnight every day.	22/29
..and by 11pm at least 25 days.	19/25
Cleaning/DIY/gardening every day when I'm at home.	22/29
10,000 steps per day	22/29
Get to the bottom of my mysterious shoulder pain! My last appointment has given me hope that we might get on the right track soon.	0/1
3 Scavenger Hunt photos	3/3

And, rather surprisingly, a single holly berry for something red:

[Seaturtle7]

 

 Wild flowers where I’m supposed to have lawn and lovely red headed aka acorn woodpecker.

[NellyG]

@Vidd I love your holly berry!

22 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      15/15

10 days over 12,000                                         13/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 6/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   35/35

100km on my bike                                             98/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[NellyG]

23 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      15/15

10 days over 12,000                                         13/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 6/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   36/35

100km on my bike                                             141/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[Vidd]

@Seaturtle7You've done well to get a woodpecker photograph.  Where we are, we often hear them drumming the trees, but they're very hard to spot in amongst them.

[NellyG]

@Baltoscott You did well to get the 29 seconds on the crosswalk!

25 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      16/15

10 days over 12,000                                         14/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 7/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   37/35

100km on my bike                                             141/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[NellyG]

27 February 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      17/15

10 days over 12,000                                         15/10             

6 days over 15,000 steps                                 7/6           

35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance)   40/35

100km on my bike                                             141/100

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      3/3

[jantonini]

Leaping February Day 27

10k steps per day (Sundays) -  4/4 days

13k steps per day -  14//14 days

16k steps per day -   4/4 days

18k steps per day -  3/4 days

Over 20k steps per day - 2/3 Days: 1-21,165; 1-20,403

Weights -  13/14 days 

Yoga/pilates/stretch - 12/14 days

90 oz Water every day -  27/29 days

4 lb weight loss -  2/4 pounds lost

Mindfulness/Meditation at least 3 minutes-    4/7

February pictures.  3/3 

The pictures below is of our sweet little rescue dog who loves to jump in the air for his toy. I am pretty bad at getting him as he leaps with a clear picture. This is the best I could do. Then the second picture is just because he’s so cute!

 I tried to get him in the air, but this was all I could get. he truly leaps well into the air!

 So sweet and playful.

[Baltoscott]

@jantonini @NellyG @Vidd @Seaturtle7 @SteppingBooks @Jotex 

Muddy March is up. Go post your goals.