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October
It is the first full month of fall, cooler weather around in the Baltimore area; I’m even wearing long pants some days! Holidays and parties are around the corner and I am trying to be mindful of all the goodies coming my way in the next few months. Moderation. Moderation. Moderation. But for NOW, lets just enjoy the weather and the changing seasons and get out an MOVE.
General monthly instructions are below, including the monthly picture scavenger hunt.
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
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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OctoberFest Day 31 report
| 50 floors every day we're at home. | 31/31 |
3 walks with Walter the collie every day, wherever we are. | 31/31 |
Play the piano to Walter every day. Started Book 1 again of the Preludes and Fugues. | 31/31 |
In bed by midnight every day.. | 31/31 |
| ..and by 11pm at least 5 days in every 7. | 29/22 |
| Cleaning/DIY/gardening every day when I'm at home. | 31/31 |
15,000 steps every day
| 31/31 |
| 3 Scavenger Hunt photos | 21/3 |
Pretty well just stumps here:
And not long before this goes the same way:
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OctoberFest 2023 Final..10/31
10k steps per day (Sundays) - 4/5 days
13k steps per day - 14/15 days
16k steps per day - 6/4 days
18k steps per day - 4/4 days
Over 20k steps per day - -3/3 days: 1-20,801 2-24,660 3-26,048
Weights - 14/14 days
Yoga/pilates/stretch - 15/14 days
90 oz Water every day - 29/31days
2 lb weight loss - -1/2 pounds lost
Mindfulness Minute/Meditation at least 2 minutes/Positive focused thinking- -5/7
getting colder! Still somewhat colorful out there.
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