Record setting week (for me at least)...

[shipo]

Hey Gang,

I'm in the midst of slowly ramping my running mileage back up to pre-injury levels (non-running related torn abdominal muscles, ouch), and in the process I ended up with a week with a number of personal bests since I got my Fitbit Surge on 28-Apr-2015.  I'm still not running as fast as I did before the injury, and am still feeling a few twinges from being hurt, but hey, at 59, things just don't seem to heal as fast as they used to.  🙂

One calendar week (Sunday 12-Jun through Saturday 18-Jun):

• Total steps: 210,722
• Running steps: 99,262
• Running miles: 61.5
• Total calories burned: 33,943
• Running calories burned: 8,582
• Minutes of activity: 1,808

Item of note: In addition to my high running mileage last week, another reason for the high step, calorie, and activity numbers is I typically only take care of the horses on the farm where I live three to four days per week; last week I did all seven days which in turn added about 35,000 steps to my typical week.  🙂

[GershonSurge]

Nice job. Soon you will be getting 50,000 steps a day. 🙂

[shipo]

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@GershonSurge wrote:

Nice job. Soon you will be getting 50,000 steps a day. 🙂

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Nope, no plan for that, ever.  Heck, I've never (officially) crossed the 40,000 step threshold even once.  That said, if I can find another Ultra team for this year's running of Reach the Beach here in New Hampshire, I will most likely cross 50,000 steps in a single 24-hour period (spread across two calendar days).

[JohnRi]

I would describe last week as typical...

Same time period

• Total Steps: 101,875
• Walking Steps: 72,452
• Walking miles: 33.46
• Total Calories Burned: 23,796
• Walking Calories Burned: 6,354
• Minutes of activity: 683
• Total Calories eaten: 13,484

I find the stats intesting.  You did twice as many steps overall, but rougly only 25% more steps running than me walking.  You burned about 20% more calories running than me walking.  Yet you ran almost twice as many miles as I walked.  You burned 10,000 more calories than me, and had nearly three times as many active minutes.  Divide my active minutes in half (walking vs running) and you probably had close 1500 active minutes working the farm.  That working on the Horse farm makes a huge difference! 

Impressive is all I can say @shipo.  Don't ever retire man, you're going to hate cutting the diet!

[shipo]

@JohnRi, very impressive week!  🙂

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@JohnRi wrote:

Don't ever retire man, you're going to hate cutting the diet!

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That's the plan anyway; my wife and I both lost our jobs back in the 2008-2009 timeframe, both started businesses, both of which failed (and burned our life savings in the process).  Now at the young age of 59 we're starting over from scratch (and still have one kid in college).  The good news is both of us have ancestors showing three digits of age on their grave stones, we're both in good shape, and figure we'll need to work until our mid 70s before we retire (we're both working desk jobs as our actual "day jobs").

Regarding my activity minutes; thinking as I type here, I typically average about 2:45 per day taking care of the horses; that works out to 1,155 minutes for the week.

Per my Surge I logged 655.25 minutes of running in that period, subtract that from 1,808 minutes of activity reported above and I get 1,152.75; pretty darn close to my guesstimate of 1,155.  🙂

[sleepydog57]

Good for you @shipo. I had a good week too, earned the 'High Tops' badge on my climb up Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Now I'm planning more and longer workout routines.

[shipo]

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@sleepydog57 wrote:

Good for you @shipo. I had a good week too, earned the 'High Tops' badge on my climb up Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Now I'm planning more and longer workout routines.

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Awesome!  How many "floors" is the High Tops badge?  Sounds like a whole bunch.  🙂

[sleepydog57]

Yeah actually the High Tops badge was for 20k steps in a day, concurrently, I hit 144 floors, but no badge for that. This week, by doing my average number of steps, I'll hit my millionth step on Fitbit. As you keep leading your own pathway, you'll probably get the monster or all monsters runner badge . . . hahaha

[shipo]

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@sleepydog57 wrote:

Yeah actually the High Tops badge was for 20k steps in a day, concurrently, I hit 144 floors, but no badge for that. This week, by doing my average number of steps, I'll hit my millionth step on Fitbit. As you keep leading your own pathway, you'll probably get the monster or all monsters runner badge . . . hahaha

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Funny (ironic?) comments:

• I don't believe there are any "runner" badges per-se; I just get step badges like everyone else.
• There are a couple of "Ultra Runners" here on the forum, and those dudes (and dudeses) are seriously hard core.

Ultra Runner Humor:

• Co-Worker: "So, how long are you going to run today?"
• UltraRunner: "Oh, seven or eight..., hours."

• UltraRunner: "My training schedule had a speed workout for today so I went out and ran a local 5K event.  At the start I set off at a blistering pace, faster than I've run in years; then a 5-year old passed me."