Marvelous May Flowers 2023— Step Challenge and Photo Scavenger Hunt

[Baltoscott]

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 -- 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.

[Vidd]

@Baltoscott and @jantonini 

Very sorry to learn of your losses.  There's a huge gap when a loved animal goes.

Treasure your memories.

[jantonini]

Thank you, @Vidd amen to the memories. 

[4DB]

sorry for your loss...a pet is part of the family 🤗

[4DB]

Marvelous May Flowers challenge...... final numbers

2023 step goal   1,899,716/3,650,000

12,000 steps/day=   30/21

10,000 steps/day=   1/10

Bike rides=  27.24/40km

Complete circles=  15/20 days

lbs to loose=   10/4 😉

Beat May 2022 numbers

steps to beat= 502,930/476,499

floors to beat=  307/334

km to beat=  347.78/328.95

3 scavenger hunt pictures

Enjoy your day everyone!!