OctoberFEST 2020 — Step Challenge and Photo Scavenger Hunt

[Baltoscott]

October is one of my favorite months. In the North the heat of summer is mostly gone, and the icy cold of winter isn’t quiet here yet; and in the South the cold weather is on the way out.  It is a GREAT time to get outside and move around.  Plus at least two good festive events — OctoberFest = funny clothes/bratwurst/sauerkraut — Halloween = equals more funny clothes!

How It Works

The primary purpose of these monthly challenges is to encourage you to set and hit 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 is … seasonal changes (a tree or flower or storefront at the beginning of the month, and again at the end); Halloween decorations/costumes, trick or treaters; German OctoberFEST related. 

Greyhound busWolf in sheep's clothing

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.

[AmandaGeorge]

10th October:

10k steps once a week 2/4

7k steps for 28 days 9/28

200 sit-ups for 28 days 9/28

175 leg raises for 28 days 9/28

50 squats for 28 days 9/28

50 seconds of front planks for 28 days 9/28

30 seconds of left side planks for 28 days 9/28

30 seconds of right side planks for 28 days 9/28

Gain and maintain 1kg to my weight  53.8kg/54.5kg

[Baltoscott]

Day 11

16K steps/day		7/27
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day		8/27
15 weight-lifting days		4/15
post 3 scavenger pics		2/3
Sleep 6 hours, 15 minutes +17 days or more during the month		7/17
1 pull-up		8/27
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		11/27
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.1 lbs (Oct. 5)	10/11	165.4
Log meals 27 days		7/27

Another witch and tree crash below.  This one was apparently drinking and flying.  It may be a "lite" beer but that doesn't mean you just hop on your broom and go ...

Drinking and Flying

[AmandaGeorge]

11th October:

10k steps once a week 2/4

7k steps for 28 days 10/28

200 sit-ups for 28 days 10/28

175 leg raises for 28 days 10/28

50 squats for 28 days 10/28

50 seconds of front planks for 28 days 10/28

30 seconds of left side planks for 28 days 10/28

30 seconds of right side planks for 28 days 10/28

Gain and maintain 1kg to my weight  53.8kg/54.5kg

[NellyG]

12 October 

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                      12/20

20 days over 12,000                                         12/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               10/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     3/4           

10 lunges a day for 20 days                            9/20

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

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                       3/3

[SteppingBooks]

OctoberFEST 9-11:

At least 12K/Day: 04/20

970 Cal/Day: 05/25

20 Squats/Day: 02/16

16:8 IF/Day: 11/25

Yoga/Week: --/4

Weights 2/week: 1/8

Water Goal: --/20

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

1Mil Steps: 122,370/1,000,000

I am definitely behind in the obscene goal I set 😅 The weather has been up and down.  I went off track a bit this weekend, but I am going to get back into the groove this week.  

[Baltoscott]

Day 12

16K steps/day		8/27
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day		9/27
15 weight-lifting days		5/15
post 3 scavenger pics		3/3
Sleep 6 hours, 15 minutes +17 days or more during the month		8/17
1 pull-up		9/27
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		12/27
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.1 lbs (Oct. 5)	10/11	165.4
Log meals 27 days		8/27

Ow. Did something to my shoulder working out yesterday and now when I try to bring my left hand behind my back to scratch between my shoulder blades it only gets up to around my waistline before the mind-numbing pain kicks in.  I was in physical therapy last year for this, so I've got some exercises to work on it ... I just hope it doesn't take months to improve!

[NellyG]

13 October 

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                      13/20

20 days over 12,000                                         13/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               10/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     3/4           

10 lunges a day for 20 days                            10/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)    15/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                       3/3

[SteppingBooks]

OctoberFEST 12:

At least 12K/Day: 04/20

970 Cal/Day: 06/25

20 Squats/Day: 02/16

16:8 IF/Day: 12/25

Yoga/Week: --/4

Weights 2/week: 2/8

Water Goal: --/20

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

1Mil Steps: 131,247/1,000,000

[AmandaGeorge]

12th October:

10k steps once a week 3/4

7k steps for 28 days 11/28

200 sit-ups for 28 days 11/28

175 leg raises for 28 days 11/28

50 squats for 28 days 11/28

50 seconds of front planks for 28 days 11/28

30 seconds of left side planks for 28 days 11/28

30 seconds of right side planks for 28 days 11/28

Gain and maintain 1kg to my weight  53.05kg/53.5kg

I know it seems like I've lost 750g in 7 days and I was getting really flustered about it yesterday, but I think the weight loss is because I'd been weighing myself after I'd had my breakfast and before walking our dog last week, but Steve didn't fancy such an early start any more, so I weighed myself after both breakfast and walking our dog this week and I reckon that's what I'm gonna do each week from now on and I've adjusted my weight goal to represent that... still means that I've gotta put on 450g in 2 weeks to get back on track though lol

[Baltoscott]

Day 13

16K steps/day		6/27
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day		10/27
15 weight-lifting days		5/15
post 3 scavenger pics		3/3
Sleep 6 hours, 15 minutes +17 days or more during the month		9/17
1 pull-up		10/27
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		13/27
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.1 lbs (Oct. 5)	10/11	165.4
Log meals 27 days		9/27

[NellyG]

14 October 

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                      14/20

20 days over 12,000                                         14/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               10/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     3/4           

10 lunges a day for 20 days                            11/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)    16/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                       3/3

[AmandaGeorge]

13th October:

10k steps once a week 3/4

7k steps for 28 days 12/28

200 sit-ups for 28 days 12/28

175 leg raises for 28 days 12/28

50 squats for 28 days 12/28

50 seconds of front planks for 28 days 12/28

30 seconds of left side planks for 28 days 12/28

30 seconds of right side planks for 28 days 12/28

Gain and maintain 1kg to my weight  53.05kg/53.5kg

[SteppingBooks]

OctoberFEST 13:

At least 12K/Day: 04/20

970 Cal/Day: 06/25

20 Squats/Day: 02/16

16:8 IF/Day: 13/25

Yoga/Week: --/4

Weights 2/week: 2/8

Water Goal: --/20

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

1Mil Steps: 141,004/1,000,000

[AmandaGeorge]

Just heard back about the senior puppy and she's not coming home until at least tomorrow evening now, which'll be at least 3 days of less than 7k steps, so I'm gonna slightly edit my goals until I can get out and about with her again.  New targets for October:

13th October:

10k steps once a week 3/4

7k steps for 25 days 12/25

2,500 steps for 31 days 13/31

200 sit-ups for 28 days 12/28

175 leg raises for 28 days 12/28

50 squats for 28 days 12/28

50 seconds of front planks for 28 days 12/28

30 seconds of left side planks for 28 days 12/28

30 seconds of right side planks for 28 days 12/28

Gain and maintain 1kg to my weight  53.05kg/53.5kg

I'm not gonna be able to take part in this during November and January 'cos I'll be taking part in a couple of online writing challenges so won't be able to use the internet until the end of each month... I'll do my best to come back to the challenges again in December though and start again properly in February 2021!

[stoughjr]

GOALS: Week 2 😀

12,000 steps per day: 14/14

3 sets of 5 exercises every other day: 7/7

Lose 1/2 lb/week: 1.4  

1 hr of exercise each day: 14/14

6.5 hr sleep each day: 7/14

Lose 1/2 inch off waist: 0     

Log meals & water daily: 14/14

3 pictures: 2/3

[Baltoscott]

Day 14

16K steps/day		7/27
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day		11/27
15 weight-lifting days		6/15
post 3 scavenger pics		3/3
Sleep 6 hours, 15 minutes +17 days or more during the month		9/17
1 pull-up		11/27
Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days		14/27
Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.1 lbs (Oct. 5)	10/11	165.4
Log meals 27 days		10/27

I'm noticing a LOT of critter skeletons in the halloween themes this year. I think I see how many different ones I turn up over the rest of month.  I'm guessing a baby T-Rex in the one below.  

Baby T-Rex?

[AmandaGeorge]

14th October:

10k steps once a week 3/4

7k steps for 25 days 12/25

2,500 steps for 31 days 14/31

200 sit-ups for 28 days 13/28

175 leg raises for 28 days 13/28

50 squats for 28 days 13/28

50 seconds of front planks for 28 days 13/28

30 seconds of left side planks for 28 days 13/28

30 seconds of right side planks for 28 days 13/28

Gain and maintain 1kg to my weight  53.05kg/53.5kg

[NellyG]

15 October

10,000 steps a day for 20 days                      15/20

20 days over 12,000                                         15/20                

14 days over 15,000 steps                               11/14

4 day over 20,000 steps                                     4/4           

10 lunges a day for 20 days                            11/20

20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance)    17/20

3 Scavenger Hunt pics                                       3/3

[SteppingBooks]

OctoberFEST 14:

At least 12K/Day: 04/20

970 Cal/Day: 07/25

20 Squats/Day: 03/16

16:8 IF/Day: 14/25

Yoga/Week: --/4

Weights 2/week: 2/8

Water Goal: --/20

Lose 3 pounds: --/3

1Mil Steps: 151,411/1,000,000

[WendyB]

@Baltoscott Your neighbors put up the coolest decorations 😊☺️