729/1000 miles

I rounded out December adding 66 miles to my tally.  And that includes a few days where my Fitbit was in the bottom of the clothes basket.

This gives me 729 of my 1000 miles it's possible I actually hit the 1000 with my inconsistencies but we'll never know.  What I learned about trying to track my steps this year was if you want to track them you have to wear and charge the Fitbit.  

Additionally on months where I made a more of an effort to remember I averaged around 2-3 miles per day which isn't necessarily amazing but I would have been on track to hit the 1000 steps if I had met the 3 miles a day.  

Moving forward I don't plan to track it at the same level or really try and stay on top of wearing my Fitbit regularly (it's not my jam).  I do hope to work on running again after the new baby comes even if it's slow and not long distance.  Jones likes to go out and the park is like 5 blocks.  

663/1000

Ahhh November - I didn't do much better at remembering to put on my Fitbit or charge the thing but I did try and do more things and this resulted in more miles when I did have the thing on.  So in Novemeber I added 68 miles to the tally 663 (not including the last two days of November because Fitbit never sent me an email to add those to the tally).  Anyhow last month which is highly doubtful to add 300 miles to, but maybe 100? The weather is supposed to be nice and I have over a week off with Jonesy coming up.

595/1000 Miles

So October was again a month of me struggling to remember I have a Fitbit.  I need to keep this thing with my glasses or something.  I had one week where I added 5.9 miles granted like 2.5 of those days the tracker might have been missing or dead as at one point Jones did run off with it and I later found it in a shoe.  Jones has taken a recent liking to my Fitbit and likes to try it on so often times it gets taken off because of that.  I need to perhaps just wear one of the extra color bracelets  so I can give him one when he asks about it, but naturally I haven't implemented this because I struggle with putting mine on too.  Oh well, I did add 33.5 miles to the tally when I was wearing it and maybe in November I will be more consistent.  

561.5/1000 miles

In September I was going to make a better effort to wear my Fitbit and keep it charged.  Ha!  I actually did worse than normal maybe 10 days went by were I forgot it until noon or 3pm.  I had several days where I wore it dead too.  Clearly I didn't make a special point to capture the miles.  As a result September seems like a pretty walk less month, although I did try and get out and walk more as well as do things with Jones.  With that said I added 50 miles to the tally based on what was tracked and I am now at 561.5 for the year, still pretty shy of my 1000 goal.  But I'm going to plug along and still see what it looks like for the entire 12 months.

511.5/1000 Miles

In August I added 72.5 miles to the tally.  Not amazing numbers at all. But considering at least 5 times I noticed my Fitbit was dead after taking an evening walk, and another several days where it was left in the bathroom after showering it's something.  It took me to half my total for the year only 2 months past the halfway point.

At this point I need to recommit to actually trying to hit my daily step goal and to keeping the thing on and charged up.  Jones is a good motivator he has learned the words "ride bike" and often requests "bike rides" after school. But at the same time he's been going to bed at 8, and sometimes those precious few hours don't have time for a walk on the treadmill or a stroll around the block.  Anyhow I am going to target for at least hitting 110 miles in September.

439/1000

July was a terrible month for walking.  I lost my Fitbit at the end of June.  I didn't replace it until mid month.  Then I was sick for over two weeks in July.  Jones was sicker so we did even less than normal.  Because my Fitbit was missing I just put in 11 miles for each of the two missing weeks - this might be low but it's hard to correctly estimate.  That made for  almost 47 miles in July, the lowest so far this summer.  Anyhow hopefully we are on the upswing in August.  I want to take jones to zoo a few times and to the state fair as well.

325/1000 Miles

So far more disappointment in May I logged only 90 miles towards my 150 goal.  This put me at 325 for the year.  I am happy to report however that I did get about 15-30 active minutes in probably 75% of the time.  I also discovered that pushing the stroller doesn't count steps for my Fitbit accurately as Nike records distance with the GPS and what was like 2.5 miles in the Nike app was only showing as 1.5 in Fitbit.  Whomp whomp!

With this new found knowledge I have now been not pushing the stroller with my left hand and/or I will attach the Fitbit to my foot when we go on walks with jones.  I am going to shoot for 150 for June as well despite the fact that yesterday I left my Fitbit hanging on the towel rack and this morning it was dead. Summer is here so we should be able to make up ground.  Anyhow onward and upward.

235/1000 miles

I have been really bad about trying to hit my daily step goals.  Really bad.  

No excuses.

Weather has been relatively nice.  Jones and I have been walking to the park a few days a week and other days we like to go shopping or something else but somehow I still have been short.  

Regards as of May 1 we had 235 miles, I added 79 in the month of April which was twice what I did in January almost.  Anyhow starting today actually I got up early and walked 2 miles before work.  Jones was up so we went together if he's still asleep I plan to use our fancy garage gym.  

My goal is to have 150 miles at least in May - that's doable right?  Putting it out there so maybe we can get there?  

155/1000 miles

In March I added 30 miles to my goal bringing me to 160 of 1000.  I am still horribly poor about remembering to charge the fit bit and put it on after showering, but I usually remember about it a few hours later.  So it's getting better. And also behind in terms of pace I should be at 300 - whoops!  

As for push ups that fell by the wayside around 210/1000 because I got the flu then forgot about it.  Well it happens.  Anyhow I am shooting for an added 20 miles to the 60 of March since we're going on vacation to Denver.

96/1000 Fitbit Miles

In February I added 49.29 miles on the Fitbit. Which isn't on pace for 1000 miles but still it's progress when it's sooooo cold and most of the outdoors is covered in ice and snow.  I also lost my Fitbit for. Two days in the parking lot at the pool.

Still almost 1/10 to the goal, so I'll take it.  As it gets warmer I am sure the goal will become more within reason.

In March I also started Tisha's 1,000 push-up challenge.  So far I have completed 60/1000 two sets of 30.  

46/1000 miles

So maybe 1000 miles was ambitious.  But let's go big!  

In January my Fitbit miles totaled 46.38, mind you this was with two weeks where my old fit bit would only record steps from like 6am to 9am.  Fitbit however sent me a brand new one which works much better.  Winter is also slowing it down as its -15 one day then 30 the next.    Anyhow that's 46/1000 down now.