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Marvelous May Flowers 2023— Step Challenge and Photo Scavenger Hunt

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. 

 

Mmmm -- DandelionMmmm -- Dandelion

 

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.

Scott | Baltimore MD

Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro

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Marvelous May Flowers - Day 10

8,000 steps: 5/10 days

10,000 steps: 6/10 days

12,000 steps:  0/5 days

Rebounding: 5/15 days

Blue days: 3/12 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 1/3

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11 May

 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      5/15

8 days over 12,000                                           3/8                

5 days over 15,000 steps                                 2/5           

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)   8/20

250km on my bike                                              84/250

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      5/3

 

Kangaroo Paw

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Helen | Western Australia

Want to discuss ways to increase your activity? Visit Get Moving in the Lifestyle Discussion Forum.

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Marvelous May Flowers 10

12k Steps/Day Weekdays: 6/23

9.5K Steps/Day Weekends: -/8

2000 Calorie Limit/Day: 9/31

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 9/31

Weights 2x/week: 2/8

Stretch 4x/week: 2/15

Squats 30/day: 2/10

80oz Water daily: -/31

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 110,107/350,000

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So pretty @NellyG 

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🌸Marvelous May Flowers through May 10

10k steps per day -   1/4 days

13k steps per day -   5/18 days

15k steps per day-    2/2 days

16k steps per day -   2/2 days

18k steps per day -   -/3 days

Over 20k steps per day -   -/2 days 

Weights -   5/14 days 

Yoga/pilates/stretch -   5/14 days

90 oz Water every day -   9/31 days

8 lb weight loss -     -2/8 pounds lost  

3  (at least) for photo scavenger hunt -    1/3 photos

Mindfulness Minute/Meditation at least 2 minutes/Positive focused thinking-    2/7

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Marvelous May Flowers - Day 11

8,000 steps: 5/10 days

10,000 steps: 7/10 days

12,000 steps:  0/5 days

Rebounding: 6/15 days

Blue days: 4/12 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 1/3

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12 May

 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      5/15

8 days over 12,000                                           3/8                

5 days over 15,000 steps                                 2/5           

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)   10/20

250km on my bike                                             132/250

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      5/3

Community Council Member

Helen | Western Australia

Want to discuss ways to increase your activity? Visit Get Moving in the Lifestyle Discussion Forum.

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Marvelous May Flowers 11

12k Steps/Day Weekdays: 7/23

9.5K Steps/Day Weekends: -/8

2000 Calorie Limit/Day: 10/31

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 10/31

Weights 2x/week: 2/8

Stretch 4x/week: 2/15

Squats 30/day: 2/10

80oz Water daily: -/31

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 125,659/350,000

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13 May

 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      6/15

8 days over 12,000                                           3/8                

5 days over 15,000 steps                                 2/5           

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)   11/20

250km on my bike                                             132/250

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      5/3

Community Council Member

Helen | Western Australia

Want to discuss ways to increase your activity? Visit Get Moving in the Lifestyle Discussion Forum.

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Marvelous May Flowers - Day 12

8,000 steps: 6/10 days

10,000 steps: 7/10 days

12,000 steps:  0/5 days

Rebounding: 6/15 days

Blue days: 4/12 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 1/3

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Marvelous May Flowers Goals and Day 14

 

17K steps/day for 25 days  10/25

1 pushup

 14/25

13 weight-lifting days 

 7/14

post 3 scavenger pics

 3/3

Sleep 6:00 hours + 20 days or more during the month 

 

11/20

1 pull-up (modified)

 

14/25

Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days 

12/25

13 Dry (no alcohol) days 2/13
Beat May 2022 bike mileage (291.6 miles) 

179.4

 

The deer were pretty far away on the other side of a stream, but they still had eyes on me. The iris is from a patch in our yard.

IrisIrisYeah, I see you tooYeah, I see you too

Scott | Baltimore MD

Charge 6; Inspire 3; Luxe; iPhone 13 Pro

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15May

 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      6/15

8 days over 12,000                                           3/8                

5 days over 15,000 steps                                 2/5           

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)   12/20

250km on my bike                                             168/250

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      5/3

Community Council Member

Helen | Western Australia

Want to discuss ways to increase your activity? Visit Get Moving in the Lifestyle Discussion Forum.

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Marvelous May Flowers 12 to 14

12k Steps/Day Weekdays: 8/23

9.5K Steps/Day Weekends: 2/8

2000 Calorie Limit/Day: 13/31

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 12/31

Weights 2x/week: 2/8

Stretch 4x/week: 2/15

Squats 30/day: 2/10

80oz Water daily: -/31

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 158,784/350,000

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Marvelous May Flowers - Day 13,14

8,000 steps: 6/10 days

10,000 steps: 7/10 days

12,000 steps:  0/5 days

Rebounding: 6/15 days

Blue days: 5/12 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 1/3

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Marvelous May Flowers - Day 15

8,000 steps: 6/10 days

10,000 steps: 7/10 days

12,000 steps:  1/5 days

Rebounding: 7/15 days

Blue days: 6/12 days

Scavenger Hunt Pics: 1/3

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Marvellous May Flowers - Day 15

 

Marvellous May Flowers: GOALS

150 floors every day that I'm at home in Shropshire

15/31
10 miles at least with Walter the collie every day, wherever we are.15/31
Play the piano to Walter every day.15/31
In bed by midnight ever day..15/31
..and by 11pm at least 5 days in every 7.14/26
Cleaning/DIY/gardening every day when I'm at home.14/31
30,000 steps every day.15/31
3 Scavenger Hunt photos 5/3

 

 

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Tiny and so pretty - the Speedwell, with a little yellow interloper.

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Marvelous May Flowers 15

12k Steps/Day Weekdays: 9/23

9.5K Steps/Day Weekends: 2/8

2000 Calorie Limit/Day: 14/31

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 13/31

Weights 2x/week: 2/8

Stretch 4x/week: 2/15

Squats 30/day: 2/10

80oz Water daily: -/31

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 172,982/350,000

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16 May

 

10,000 steps a day for 15 days                      7/15

8 days over 12,000                                           4/8                

5 days over 15,000 steps                                 2/5           

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)   14/20

250km on my bike                                             168/250

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                      5/3

Community Council Member

Helen | Western Australia

Want to discuss ways to increase your activity? Visit Get Moving in the Lifestyle Discussion Forum.

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Definitely not camera shy, this ewe!

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Marvelous May Flowers 16

12k Steps/Day Weekdays: 10/23

9.5K Steps/Day Weekends: 2/8

2000 Calorie Limit/Day: 15/31

IF Daily (12 hr weekday/16:8 weekend): 14/31

Weights 2x/week: 2/8

Stretch 4x/week: 2/15

Squats 30/day: 2/10

80oz Water daily: -/31

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

Photo Scavenger Hunt: -/3

Total Steps: 189,309/350,000

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