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Welcome to 2024. It is a new year, a new month, and time to do something new, something legendary; or at least to get another monthly challenge underway. So try out something new … a diet or exercise change, less drinking (dry for a month?), more vegetables, going to bed earlier, learn a new skill … But in this case, commit for just a month and see how it goes. You can do anything for a month, and if it still makes sense on January 31, try to make it ordinary come February. Or adapt it a bit.
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
The theme this month? It is an old favorite for me; street art or hidden pictures. Street art is any graffiti you come across and any art designed or built into architecture. Hidden pictures are designs in nature that might be there on purpose (someone carved something into, or hung something on a tree, or a cairn you find or build yourself) or might be something you see in a natural formation (a shoulder or face in a mountain).
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.
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Another new year! Thankyou @Baltoscott for organising this thread year in and year out. You do a great job 😀
Goals for January 2024
10,000 steps a day for 15 days -/15
10 days over 12,000 -/10
6 days over 15,000 steps -/6
35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance) -/35
100km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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2 January
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 1/15
10 days over 12,000 1/10
6 days over 15,000 steps -/6
35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance) 3/35
100km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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This is a new one I just found on a bike ride. I think it is only a couple of weeks old. Street art with a hidden face in the clouds in the top left.
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4 January
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 2/15
10 days over 12,000 2/10
6 days over 15,000 steps -/6
35 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance) 4/35
100km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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Legendary January Day 4
| 17K steps/day for 25 days | 4/25 | |
1 pushup for 25 days | 3/25 | |
13 weight-lifting days | 2/13 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 2/3 | |
Sleep 6:10 hours + 15 days or more during the month | 4/16 | |
1 pull-up for 25 days | 3/25 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 22 days | 3/22 | |
| Mostly Dry January (no alcohol) days | 4/25 | |
| Beat January 2023 bike mileage (165.5 miles) | 52.3 | |
| 100 zone minutes 20 days. | 4/20 |
Dry so far this month, but the weekend looms.
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“Better late than never!” Thanks for the invite to Legendary January 2024, @Baltoscott ! I like your description of setting goals. It’s similar to a list I saved from online (Pinterest maybe), below.
My goals this month (so far):
5,000 steps/day - 15x
7,500 steps/day - 10x
10,000 steps/day - 5x
Stretching exercises - 15x
Line dance class - 4x
Pilates class - 3x
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