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YIKES! It is the beginning of festival/holiday season. Already! Around here October will be beer festivals with the wurst and schnitzel, probably a trip to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, and a pumpkin carving party at the end of the month. With all that coming up, it makes sense to plan out fitness and eating goals for the month and check in with Fitbit friends to get support for hitting those goals. So lets get started!
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
This month’s scavenger hunt is a little more free-flowing than the past couple of months. Tell a story with words and pictures about where you live - your neighborhood, your town/city. Maybe just about a particular building, or maybe the founding of the area, or maybe a famous person who lived in or visited or died where you live. It doesn’t have to be a lot of pictures and doesn’t have to be historical. Most comic strips are just 3 or 4 panels. But it does have to be pictures you take while walking this month. For example, here is a little moralistic story about locking your bike in the Baltimore/DC area from pics I took last month:
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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@WendyB wrote:@JotexGlad your hubby is back and you had a Nice evening together..
I'm 66 but dont feel it
@WendyB — you’ve got it right! We’re only as old as we feel! 😊
@Baltoscott — thanks! I’m still looking from time-to-time for an InstaPot over here. Not here yet. #mustbepatient #keeplooking
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Octoberfest: Day 10
Went well beyond my goal of 6,000 steps.
This is a picture of City Hall in good ol' Houston, Texas.
Go Astros!
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11 October
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 10/20
Days over 15,000 steps (1 per week) 3/4
Swim 2x per week 2/2 4/8
Dance 6 hours a week 5/6 15/24
One Interval walk or bike ride per week 1/1 2/4
Post Scavenger Hunt Picture Story 1/1
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OctoberFest Day 11
Steps: Goal right now is 13000 11/31
Boxing 31 days: 11/31
Bike 2 times 31 days: 11/31
Weights DVD 18 days: 6/31
Stomach Youtube 31 days:11/31
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups 31 days:11/31
250 Steps per hour : 11/31
Lose 2 Pounds 2/2
Post Scavenger hunt photos 3/3
Upped walking goal again. Walking further each day. Gained a pound today after not eating last week. Was surprised. Oh well keep on trucking 
Great Picture @shawnkp thanks for sharing
I will try to remember to take a picture tomorrow. Keep forgetting 
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12 October
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 11/20
Days over 15,000 steps (1 per week) 3/4
Swim 2x per week 2/2 4/8
Dance 6 hours a week 5/6 15/24
One Interval walk or bike ride per week 1/1 2/4
Post Scavenger Hunt Picture Story 1/1
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OctoberFest Day 12
Steps: Goal right now is 13000 12/31
Boxing 31 days: 12/31
Bike 2 times 31 days: 12/31
Weights DVD 18 days: 7/31
Stomach Youtube 31 days:12/31
Wall Push Up/Counter push ups 31 days:12/31
250 Steps per hour : 12/31
Lose 2 Pounds 2/2
Post Scavenger hunt photos 3/3
Posting late. Super busy today. Was Date day and we went out to lunch and then out for a beer 
Was a good day!
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14 October
10,000 steps a day for 20 days 13/20
Days over 15,000 steps (1 per week) 3/4
Swim 2x per week -/2 4/8
Dance 6 hours a week -/6 15/24
One Interval walk or bike ride per week -/1 2/4
Post Scavenger Hunt Picture Story 1/1
Nice tonsee you pop by @SunsetRunner
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