Weight-Loss 10,000 Challenge!!!

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Another challenge to revive :)

My stepcounts have been rubbish recently. I'm going to start posting here again.
It would be great if others joined me again.
With luck it will shame me into making sure that they are at least 10,000 into the future...

Monday.............20/03/2017 7,436 steps
Tuesday..............21/03/2017 12,712 steps
Wednesday.........22/03/2017 4,832 steps
Thursday............23/03/2017 17,102 steps
Friday.................24/03/2017 11,770 steps
Saturday.............25/03/2017 12,969 steps
 
Sunday.................26/03/2017..........10,432 steps
 
Monday................03/04/2017 12,762 steps
Tuesday................04/04/2017 18,029 steps
 
Wednesday................05/04/2017 10,443 steps
Thursday...................06/04/2017 16,027 steps
Friday........................07/04/2017 16,166 steps
 
Monday................10/04/2017 15,460 steps
Tuesday................11/04/2017 13,275 steps
Wednesday...........12/04/2017 12,543 steps
Thursday...............13/04/2017 18,158 steps
Friday....................14/04/2017 14,024 steps
 
Monday................17/04/2017 13,372 steps
Tuesday................18/04/2017 22,865 steps
Wednesday...........19/04/2017 12,970 steps
Thursday...............20/04/2017 14,099 steps
Friday....................21/04/2017 13,060 steps
Saturday..............22/04/2017 16,505 steps
Sunday................23/04/2017 17,224 steps
 
Monday................24/04/2017 14,591 steps
Tuesday................25/04/2017 19,137 steps
Wednesday...........26/04/2017 14,371 steps
 
Thursday...............27/04/2017 14,607 steps
Friday....................28/04/2017 20,703 steps
Saturday................29/04/2017 15,789 steps
 
Sunday 30/04/2017 .............15,423 steps
Monday 01/05/17................ 16,290 steps
Tuesday 02/05/17................ 14,023 steps
Wednesday 03/05/17........... 1,323 Ill with sickness and diarrhoea
Thursday 04/05/17.............. 9,079 still fragile but had a dance lesson I couldn't miss
Friday 05/05/17.................. 20,242 steps
Saturday 06/05/17............... 16,751 steps
Sunday 07/05/17................. 21,783 steps
Monday 08/05/17................ 7,887 steps exhausted after the weekend away
Tuesday 09/05/17................ 11,174 steps
Wednesday 10/05/17........... 3,087 steps - It was a bad day with conflict, stress and emotional eating....
Thursday 11/05/17.............. 14,622 steps
Friday 12/05/17.................. 15,588 steps
Saturday 13/05/17............... 14,656 steps
Sunday 14/05/17................. 14,413 steps - my Sunday steps were actually better than this... I didn't wear a pedometer in the morning when I did my dance exam which included performances in 9 dances - cha cha, jive, samba, rumba, paso doble, waltz, tango, saunter, two step.
Monday 15/05/17................ 16,279 steps
 
I'm reviving this old thread.
Things like this always used to help me stay on track.

Tuesday 16/06/2020...…………. 9,111 steps
Wednesday 17/06/2020...……. 8,755 steps
Thursday 18/06/2020...……….. 13,093 steps
Friday 19/06/2020...……………. 13,669 steps
Saturday 20/06/2020...………. 15,475 steps
Sunday 21/06/2020...………… 11,868 steps
Monday 22/06/2020...………..14,311 steps
 
I don´t have a step counter (and often don´t have my phone with me) but I can do minutes walked instead. 105 today so far.
 
That's brilliant! Any form of tracking works just as well... The main thing is that we keep moving and don't opt for lazy days
 
when i was a Boy Scout, our district sponsored a yearly event called the Klondike Derby. what you did at the patrol level (usually 6-8 scouts form a patrol) is build a sled (or inherit one), fill it with some supplies to meet scouting type tests along the course, and hopefully if the weather cooperated and there was snow on the ground (though there were years all we had to deal with was mud), each patrol pulled their sled stopping along the course to... build a fire and boil water... send a signal using semaphore flags... perform some first aid... etc.

one of the challenges was to measure the perimeter of a field ... no tape measure allowed, of course.

since i knew this was one of the challenges, i thought of a way to be as accurate as possible. i went to our school football field/ track and, walking as naturally as i could, i paced off 100 yards about 10 times. remarkably i found i was only off by one or two steps every time i paced it off. then i did the math and calculated the length of my average pace. whereas other patrols (i asked) estimated their paces as ~2.5 feet... i knew my stride length to a fraction of a fraction of an inch.

i remember the look on the umpire's face when i reported the distance i walked off... he gave me the maximum 5 nuggets (yellow painted slugs) award and wouldn't say how close i got when i asked, but i have to imagine i was within a few inches.

anyway... want to turn steps into distance with some good accuracy?
find a football field or track and start counting.

distance / # of steps = step length

distance = 100 yds, good ... ¼ mile, better.
 
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Thanks for your input Overlandflyer.

When things get back to normal I'll probably give that a go.... At the minute we are pretty much locked down...
I just get out in the morning about 6:30am and walk in the streets near where I live. I get out then before anyone is about.

I have my mother who is nearly 98 living with us. She needs to be fully shielded from the virus (which has hit England badly) as it is highly likely that the virus would kill her....

In the meantime - I'll just have to go with the stepcount - but am sure in the knowledge that whatever the distance 2000 steps is better than 1000 :)
 
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