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I love October! The heat of summer is mostly gone, and the icy cold of winter isn’t quite here yet. It is a GREAT time to get outside and move around. Plus at least two good festive events — German Beer/bratwurst/sauerkraut — Halloween!
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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October Fest Day 7
Steps: Goal 10,000: 7/31
Boxing 31 days: 7/31
Bike 3 times 31 days: 7/31
Weights DVD 17 days: 4/17
Stomach YouTube 31 days : 7/31
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups 31 days: 7/31
Leg Exercises 31 days: 7/31
250 Steps per hour 30 days: 7/31
Log food daily 31 days: 7/31
Scavenger Hunt Photos 3: 3/3
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8 October
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 8/20
12 days over 12,000 7/12
6 days over 15,000 steps 4/6
2 days over 20,000 steps -/2
Swim 2x per week 3/8
Dance prac 4+ hours a week 8/20
6 bike rides or interval walks per month 2/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 4/3 1st pictures
Another pic for now and then
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Same goals as the last several months, 20,000+ steps per day, 25 floors. May do better on the photo challenge this month
10/2 steps 23,990, floors 24
10/3 steps 20,485, floors 42
10/4 steps 29,233, floors 137 we rode today, 9.5 miles on horseback
10/5 steps 20,146, floors 26
10/6 steps 29,400, floors 10 rained most of the day, first rain in 7 weeks, got 3.5"
10/7 steps 26,195, floors 31 started getting the big trailer ready for our 5 day trip to horse camp. Leave here tomorrow morning. Probably no wifi or even phone signal till late Sunday.
Have a good week ya'll! Here's a picture of my lovely wife at Fridays ride.
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OctoberFEST Goals - Day 8
8,000 steps: 5/10 days
10,000+ steps: 1/15 days
Exercises & weights: 5/25 days
Scavenger Hunt Pics: 0/3 pics
Not sure this fits this month’s scavenger hunt criteria, but it does show the Swiss autumn has settled. This was from the window of the classroom where I was teaching for a colleague in Luzern. The foreground is the main train station there.
@benvegi the snake in that photo was hiding inside that tree trunk.
Thanks for clearing up the mystery rattlesnake. I never would have guessed!
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October Fest Day 8
Steps: Goal 10,000: 8/31
Boxing 31 days: 8/31
Bike 3 times 31 days: 8/31
Weights DVD 17 days: 4/17
Stomach YouTube 31 days : 8/31
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups 31 days: 8/31
Leg Exercises 31 days: 8/31
250 Steps per hour 30 days: 8/31
Log food daily 31 days: 8/31
Scavenger Hunt Photos 3: 3/3
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OctoberFEST Day 8
| 15K steps/day | 8/31 | |
10 pushup + shoulder extension /day | 8/31 | |
15 weight-lifting days | 4/15 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 3/3 | |
Sleep 6+ hours 16 days or more during the month | 6/16 | |
3 pull-up + 1min bar-hang /day | 8/31 | |
1 50 mile bike ride | 1/1 |
After missing it last month, I was excited to get the long bike ride in over the weekend == all around Baltimore.
and the Halloween critters in the neighborhood are getting pretty large ...
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@Baltoscott OMG that Dinosaur! LOL
Not to many people have put up decorations in my neighborhood this year
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9 October
Wow @Baltoscott Americans are weird! Youd never see anything like those Halloween decorations here 🤣
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 9/20
12 days over 12,000 8/12
6 days over 15,000 steps 5/6
2 days over 20,000 steps 1/2
Swim 2x per week 3/8
Dance prac 4+ hours a week 8/20
6 bike rides or interval walks per month 3/6
3 Scavenger Hunt pics 4/3 1st pictures
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@SteppingBooks That's true. Maybe I can get pictures is a week.
Kills me when people put out there Christmas now 🤔
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October Fest Day 9
Steps: Goal 10,000: 9/31
Boxing 31 days: 9/31
Bike 3 times 31 days: 9/31
Weights DVD 17 days: 5/17
Stomach YouTube 31 days : 9/31
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups 31 days: 9/31
Leg Exercises 31 days: 9/31
250 Steps per hour 30 days: 9/31
Log food daily 31 days: 9/31
Scavenger Hunt Photos 3: 3/3
I'm also wondering if the lack of decorations has to do with lack of Children in the neighborhood as well. All of the ones here have grown up and moved away. Kids quit coming by at Halloween about 3 years ago.I quit buying candy to because of it. Most of them now go to Church Trunk Halloweens. Seems to be a big thing here right now. It sure is safer for sure. But I do miss seeing the kids.
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