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Here comes autumn — back to school for the kids, a shift from hot to cooler temperature, and falling leaves and changing colors outside. And just the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, cooler to warmer weather. It is a great time to get outside, stomp around, and get your steps.
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 STEPS, of course! It is STEPtember after all. Also, any pic that includes a moon. The one below is from a while ago -- September 27, 2015 blood moon.
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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STEPtember Goals😘:
<8, 000 steps - 5/30
8,000 steps —
9,000 steps —
10,000 steps — 1/30
11,000+ steps — 1/30
Scavenger Hunt Pics — 2/3
Weight Training —
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Goals for September
10,000 steps a day for 15 days -/15
8 days over 12,000 -/8
5 days over 15,000 steps -/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance) -/20
100km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
1 September
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 1/15
8 days over 12,000 1/8
5 days over 15,000 steps -/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 3/20
150km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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2 September
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 2/15
8 days over 12,000 2/8
5 days over 15,000 steps -/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, vigorous walk, dance) 4/20
150km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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Stomping STEPtember Day 1
| 17K steps/day for 25 days | 1/25 | |
1 pushup for 25 days | 1/25 | |
12 weight-lifting days | 1/12 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 1/3 | |
Sleep 6:10 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 1/20 | |
1 pull-up for 25 days | 1/25 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 1/25 | |
| 13 Dry (no alcohol) days | /13 | |
| Beat STEPtember 2022 bike mileage (367.8 miles) | 38.9 | |
| 20 days of 50 floors | 1/20 |
Two moon shots a couple of days past full. The orange one was close to the horizon last night about a hour after sunset. Still picking up some the sun. The white one was two days ago about 11 pm.
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10k steps per day (Sundays) - /4 days
13k steps per day - 1/14 days
16k steps per day - 1/5 days
18k steps per day - /4 days
Over 20k steps per day - /3 days
Weights - 1/13 days
Yoga/pilates/stretch - 1/12 days
90 oz Water every day - 2/30 days
2 lb weight loss - -/2 pounds lost
Mindfulness Minute/Meditation at least 2 minutes/Positive focused thinking- -/7
3 photos for scavenger hunt - 1/3 photos
Below, 2 days ago-Super, Blue Moon rising above.
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Stomping STEPtember Day 3
| 17K steps/day for 25 days | 3/25 | |
1 pushup for 25 days | 3/25 | |
12 weight-lifting days | 1/12 | |
post 3 scavenger pics | 2/3 | |
Sleep 6:10 hours + 20 days or more during the month | 3/20 | |
1 pull-up for 25 days | 3/25 | |
| Unicycle: 15 mins/day for 25 days | 3/25 | |
| 13 Dry (no alcohol) days | 1/13 | |
| Beat STEPtember 2022 bike mileage (367.8 miles) | 67 | |
| 20 days of 50 floors | 3/20 |
The Maryland Classic Bike Race was today, so I road my bike around to take some pics. Mostly hung out at two places. And what to you know, I got a scavenger hunt pic of some stairs, AND a painting of a wolf riding a bike, AND several bike racers. The race winner, Mattias Skjelmose from Denmark, is on the Trek fiddling with his team radio.
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4 September
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 3/15
8 days over 12,000 3/8
5 days over 15,000 steps -/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance) 4/20
150km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
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5 September
10,000 steps a day for 15 days 4/15
8 days over 12,000 4/8
5 days over 15,000 steps 1/5
20 exercise sessions (swim, bike, walk, gym, dance) 7/20
150km on my bike -/100
3 Scavenger Hunt pics -/3
Best AnswerStomping STEPtember update - September 5th
50 floors every day that I'm at home in Shropshire. | 5/30 |
| 3 walks with Walter the collie every day, wherever we are | 5/30 |
Play the piano to Walter every day. | 5/30 |
In bed by midnight every day.. | 5/30 |
| ..and by 11pm at least 5 days in every 7. | 4/22 |
| Cleaning/DIY/gardening every day when I'm at home. | 5/30 |
15,000 steps every day.
| /30 |
| 3 Scavenger Hunt photos | 1/3 |
Here's Walter planning what to do, depending on how I respond to his stick placement. Which leg will take the first step from here?
There's a tiny moon in the background. I haven\t figured out how to use my camera to get a good shot of the moon - @Baltoscott, your moon photos are fantastic! What do I need to do?
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