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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.
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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31 October
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 26/20
20 days over 12,000 26/20
14 days over 15,000 steps 16/14
4 day over 20,000 steps 4/4
10 lunges a day for 20 days 24/20
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 26/20
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 5/3
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Day 31
| 16K steps/day | 26/27 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 27/27 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 15/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 3/3 | |
Sleep 6 hours, 15 minutes +17 days or more during the month | 19/17 | |
1 pull-up | 27/27 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 31/27 | |
| Lose 2 lbs. Start 166.1 lbs (Oct. 5) | 10/31 | 164.6 |
| Log meals 27 days | 27/27 |
Logging meals seemed to keep be a little more focused this month -- dropped a 1.5 lbs -- so keep doing it next month. Mostly a pretty good month. Here's a couple more scavenger hunt pic for the month -- your local neighborhood spiderman :-), and the ghost at the front of my house 🙂
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