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April brought a lot of showers and May will bring more, but also lots of flowers as well as spring wildlife. Excellent reasons to get outside and up your step goals for a month.
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 of the photo scavenger hunt this month is to find at least three different kinds of flowers (blooms), three different animals on your daily walks. The more colors and critters the better.
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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27 May
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 13/15
8 days over 12,000 7/8
5 days over 15,000 steps 2/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 23420
250km on my bike 168/250
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 5/3
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Marvellous May Flowers - Day 27
Marvellous May Flowers: GOALS 150 floors every day that I'm at home in Shropshire | 27/31 |
| 10 miles at least with Walter the collie every day, wherever we are. | 27/31 |
| Play the piano to Walter every day. | 27/31 |
In bed by midnight ever day.. *(Exemption on 18th of May as was doing an airport pickup - home at 01:30) | 26/30* |
| ..and by 11pm at least 5 days in every 7. | 24/26 |
| Cleaning/DIY/gardening every day when I'm at home. | 26/31 |
| 30,000 steps every day. | 27/31 |
| 3 Scavenger Hunt photos | 8/3 |
Welsh poppies. When we moved to Shropshire 31 years ago, one thing we'll both always remember was the profusion of these lovely flowers. There are plenty again this year, but the proportion of orange blooms has increased.
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Been in Savannah GA this week and heading back tomorrow. Got a lot of bird pics at the Savannah National Wildlife Refugee, but there were a few other critters too. Here’s a blue dasher dragonfly. 
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🌸Marvelous May Flowers through May 28
10k steps per day - 3/4 days
13k steps per day - 13/18 days
15k steps per day- 3/2 days
16k steps per day - 3/2 days
18k steps per day - 3/3 days
Over 20k steps per day - 2/2 days
Weights - 12/14 days
Yoga/pilates/stretch - 12/14 days
90 oz Water every day - 27/31 days
8 lb weight loss - -3/8 pounds lost
3 (at least) for photo scavenger hunt - 2/3 photos
Mindfulness Minute/Meditation at least 2 minutes/Positive focused thinking- 4/7
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Marvelous May Flowers - Day 26, 27, 28
8,000 steps: 11/10 days
10,000 steps: 1210 days
12,000 steps: 3/5 days
Rebounding: 12/15 days
Blue days: 8/12 days
Scavenger Hunt Pics: 3/3
The terrace of our apartment is being renovated (new insulation under the stone plates). Since the vast majority of my flowers and plants were there, including those in a wintergarden and a greenhouse, we have had a major project to dismantle and/or move everything to a different location. Hence my daily fitness routine has been interrupted, and with aching muscles, I had a glass of wine at the end of the day more often than planned. At least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it! 😅 Every now nd then, though, I play hookey from the ‘task’ and paint, because as the old saying goes, “All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl.” 🎨 🖼️ 💜
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31 May
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 14/15
8 days over 12,000 7/8
5 days over 15,000 steps 2/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 26/20
250km on my bike 168/250
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 5/3
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Marvellous May Flowers: GOALS 150 floors every day that I'm at home in Shropshire | 31/31 |
| 10 miles at least with Walter the collie every day, wherever we are. | 31/31 |
Play the piano to Walter every day. He's loved the slow Beethoven this month. | 31/31 |
In bed by midnight ever day.. *(Exemption on 18th of May as was doing an airport pickup - home at 01:30) | 30/30* |
| ..and by 11pm at least 5 days in every 7. | 28/26 |
| Cleaning/DIY/gardening every day when I'm at home. | 30/31 |
| 30,000 steps every day. | 31/31 |
| 3 Scavenger Hunt photos | 10/3 |
This shows part of a large area of gorse that got burned (sadly, intentionally, by idiots) earlier this year.
I've been looking every day since late March for any signs of recovery, and spotted these tiny new bristly bright green shoots the other day, growing through the earth straight from the roots. Hooray for Nature!
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@jantonini - I'm so sorry to hear about your Peppa. She looks like the queen of the porch in that pic.
Sadly, our cat Kansas passed the Friday before last. He turned 19 last month and had been losing weight for a couple of years. He had been getting weaker and weaker and that Friday morning he lost his footing and slid down the basement steps. Typical cat. He got up like nothing had happened at all and headed for his food dish, but he was dragging one of his hind legs until I picked him up and sorted him out. We were leaving town the next day and didn't want the responsibility to fall to our neighbor, so we called the vet. Fortunately I wasn't working that day so we spent some on the back porch listening to the birds squabble at the feeders. Here he is taking a nap that morning.
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Marvelous May Flowers Goals and Day 31
| 17K steps/day for 25 days | 22/25 | |
1 pushup | 24/25 | |
13 weight-lifting days | 10/14 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 3/3 | |
Sleep 6:00 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 18/20 | |
1 pull-up (modified) | 24/25 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 24/25 | |
| 13 Dry (no alcohol) days | 9/13 | |
| Beat May 2022 bike mileage (291.6 miles) | 351.5 |
As far as my goals go, Marvelous May Flowers has been a bit of a bust. I didn't post often, gained some weight, and missed most of my goals. On the other hand I got in a few long bike rides, the wife and I went on a road trip with friends one weekend to Delaware and then met up with a couple of others for a week in Savannah, Ga. What a beautiful city. When we got home this past weekend, these huge poppies (oriental/eastern/great scarlet?) were waiting for us. So, other than fitness goals, a pretty good month.
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10k steps per day - 4/4 days
13k steps per day - 14/18 days
15k steps per day- 3/2 days
16k steps per day - 4/2 days
18k steps per day - 4/3 days
Over 20k steps per day - 2/2 days
Weights - 13/14 days
Yoga/pilates/stretch - 13/14 days
90 oz Water every day - 30/31 days
8 lb weight loss - -3/8 pounds lost
3 (at least) for photo scavenger hunt - 3/3 photos
Mindfulness Minute/Meditation at least 2 minutes/Positive focused thinking- 5/7
The pic is a start of one of my many flower areas. We live in the Marigold capital of the world, so I am putting several in this space. 🙂
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