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  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Aug 1 - 3.75 miles
    Aug 2 - 4.9 miles - 10791 steps (1/10)
    Aug 3 - 7.74 miles - 17031 steps (2/10)
    Aug 4 - 4.94 miles - 10873 steps (3/10)
    Aug 5 - 4.9 miles - 10807 steps (4/10)
    Aug 6 - 6.1 miles - 13433 steps (5/10)
    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 step (6/10)

    I thought it was going to be a rest day... but still had to mow some grass with the push mower. Much cooler so it was easier to be outside and do yard work.
  • magic71755
    magic71755 Posts: 3,784 Member
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  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
    edited August 2016
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)

    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 steps (6/10)
    Aug 8 - 5.85 miles - 12888 steps (7/10)

    I think I am participating in the Olympics. I am not sure what I am doing... seems I am going constantly all day, almost in a frenzy... I am going to chalk it up to the fact that I am not spending 14 hours away from home working, I feel I am so far behind in everything that I am going constantly trying to get caught up... Does that make sense? Has to be a reason why I am on my feet and moving all day. I am accomplishing some of the organizing goals I have, but I didn't think I would actually make so many steps doing it.
  • magic71755
    magic71755 Posts: 3,784 Member
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    I envy you being retired.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)

    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 steps (6/10)
    Aug 8 - 5.85 miles - 12888 steps (7/10)
    Aug 9 - 3.8 miles ....finally a bit of rest day...grounded by the rain.
  • magic71755
    magic71755 Posts: 3,784 Member
    edited August 2016
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    August Goals:

    To Declutter each room so I start out September on a good note. Taking on a private ESL student and I have to be ORGANIZED.

    Kitchen: working here
    Dining Room
    Living Room
    Master Bedroom
    Master Bath
    Guest Bath
    Office
    Patio

    100 miles.
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    Tuesday's Miles: 3.24
  • bananas04
    bananas04 Posts: 102 Member
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    Lilymay2 wrote: »
    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)

    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 steps (6/10)
    Aug 8 - 5.85 miles - 12888 steps (7/10)
    Aug 9 - 3.8 miles ....finally a bit of rest day...grounded by the rain.

    You are on fire!!
  • bananas04
    bananas04 Posts: 102 Member
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    Week 1
    8/1 8624 / 3.54
    8/2 8932 / 3.66
    8/3 7122 / 2.93
    8/4 9369 / 3.85
    8/5 7413 / 3.03 **
    8/6 14202 / 5.84 (1/10)
    8/7 3836 / 1.58

    8/1-8/7
    Steps: 59,498 ( 22% of 275k goal)
    Miles: 24.43 mi (22% of 110 mi goal)
    Daily step goal (7k): 6/7
    10k+ days: 1/10

    Met my goal for the first Friday. Sunday was a rest day to recover from Saturday's fun and baby's lack of sleeping...
  • bananas04
    bananas04 Posts: 102 Member
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    8/8 7269 / 3.0
    8/9 10208 / 4.19 (2/10)
    8/10 7582

    15 hours and counting of work today. I'm not even going to break 4K steps... It's almost the weekend right? Sheesh
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    bananas04 wrote: »
    8/8 7269 / 3.0
    8/9 10208 / 4.19 (2/10)
    8/10 7582

    15 hours and counting of work today. I'm not even going to break 4K steps... It's almost the weekend right? Sheesh

    It's Friday!! Almost the weekend :)
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    magic71755 wrote: »
    August Goals:

    To Declutter each room so I start out September on a good note. Taking on a private ESL student and I have to be ORGANIZED.

    Kitchen: working here
    Dining Room
    Living Room
    Master Bedroom
    Master Bath
    Guest Bath
    Office
    Patio

    100 miles.
    exercise.png


    Tuesday's Miles: 3.24

    Oh I hope I get some decluttering done too!! But so much to catch up on...I think I am stuck in my home office for August!!
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)

    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 steps (6/10)
    Aug 8 - 5.85 miles - 12888 steps (7/10)
    Aug 9 - 3.8 miles ....finally a bit of rest day...grounded by the rain.
    Aug 10 - 6 miles - 13284 steps (8/10)
    Aug 11 - 4 miles ...golfing with a power cart.

    And it is Friday!! My little granddaughter is coming to visit for the day, so better get my coffee.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
    edited August 2016
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)

    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 steps (6/10)
    Aug 8 - 5.85 miles - 12888 steps (7/10)
    Aug 9 - 3.8 miles ....finally a bit of rest day...grounded by the rain.
    Aug 10 - 6 miles - 13284 steps (8/10)
    Aug 11 - 4 miles ...golfing with a power cart.
    Aug 12 - 5.7 miles - 12630 steps (9/10)

    Keeping up with my busy body little threenager, who was also very helpful in looking after her little brother who is only 6 weeks old.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
    edited August 2016
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)

    Aug 7 - 5.62 miles - 12384 steps (6/10)
    Aug 8 - 5.85 miles - 12888 steps (7/10)
    Aug 9 - 3.8 miles ....finally a bit of rest day...grounded by the rain.
    Aug 10 - 6 miles - 13284 steps (8/10)
    Aug 11 - 4 miles ...golfing with a power cart.
    Aug 12 - 5.7 miles - 12630 steps (9/10)
    Aug 13 - 6.2 miles - 13664 steps (10/10)

    Week 2 - 37.17 miles (10/10) = 69.5 miles

    Goodness ... good thing a friend came and helped out. We moved all the boxes out of mom's house to the garage - getting ready for the garage sale.

    If I keep up this pace I will definitely be dead on my feet by the end of the month!!
  • mlh37214
    mlh37214 Posts: 517 Member
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    Glad to see you all keeping up with your miles. I've been doing a horrible job!! My August goal is to be above 85.25. That was last year's total.

    I saw someone else post about getting organized. I'm trying to do the same thing. We cleaned our storage unit last weekend and are trying to get our house in order. We've had a couple of offers on the other house, but all have fallen through. It's been a little frustrating. I'm falling into my routine with my job. The bf's sister joined the gym that I go to, and I've been able to meet up with her to get a couple of workouts in. Still working on consistency. I've had a lot of things scheduled for work when she goes, so I've not been able to make every day. I need to work on that.

    I'm still struggling with the fitbit staying charged, but I haven't made a decision on getting something new yet.

    Such a long post, not going to post the daily #'s. I had 2 days where the dead fitbit made the number really low and I've not hit 5 miles at all.

    As of the 13th, my total is 29.68. Some work to do.

    I really want to work on consistency through the next couple of weeks.

  • bananas04
    bananas04 Posts: 102 Member
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    Week 2
    8/8 7269 / 3.0
    8/9 10208 / 4.19 (2/10)
    8/10 7582 / 3.11
    8/11 3553 / 1.46
    8/12 3122 / 1.28 **
    8/13 7095 / 2.91

    I think I worked a collective 24 hours just on Thursday and Friday. Yikes. My steps reflect that. Thankfully my husband helped me get some extra sleep
    Saturday and today. I hit my step goal yesterday and am about there tonight. At this point I'm giving up the 10k days goal. I just want to hit my miles/steps and daily goals from here on out. My sciatica has come back with a vengeance so rest days will happen when there too much pain.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)
    Week 2 - 37.17 miles (10/10) = 69.5 miles

    Aug 14 - 1.1 miles .....438 kms on my butt....drove into Edmonton
    Aug 15 - 5.6 miles - 12318 steps (11/10) 438 kms home again....

    My friend needed a ride to the city to visit relatives, so off we went... then they all decided we should go to West Edmonton Mall for some shopping. It is a great place to get some steps in as long as you go in the morning. We left by 2 p.m. and it was really crowded.

    So home now and back at the mess in my house. Bagging the afghans I brought home from my mom's house, sheets going to the rag bag and to the shed to use for covering my garden when frost shows up this fall... I should be doing some more in her house but have to get my house sort of tidied up...I am the emergency back up sitter - so grandkids coming tomorrow.

    Have a great day and week everyone
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    bananas04 wrote: »

    I think I worked a collective 24 hours just on Thursday and Friday. Yikes. My steps reflect that. Thankfully my husband helped me get some extra sleep
    Saturday and today. I hit my step goal yesterday and am about there tonight. At this point I'm giving up the 10k days goal. I just want to hit my miles/steps and daily goals from here on out. My sciatica has come back with a vengeance so rest days will happen when there too much pain.

    Ouch, sciatica problems are painful. I hope it goes away. Take care and rest when you need it so it doesn't bite you later.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    mlh37214 wrote: »
    Glad to see you all keeping up with your miles. I've been doing a horrible job!! My August goal is to be above 85.25. That was last year's total.

    I saw someone else post about getting organized. ...........Still working on consistency. I've had a lot of things scheduled for work when she goes, so I've not been able to make every day. I need to work on that.

    As of the 13th, my total is 29.68. Some work to do.

    I really want to work on consistency through the next couple of weeks.

    It is hard to be consistent, you will get it organized. It is great that you have someone to go to the gym with and that will help you.

    Take care and don't sweat the small things.
  • Lilymay2
    Lilymay2 Posts: 2,524 Member
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    August Goals:
    - 120 miles
    - 10 days over 10,000 steps
    - Be up to date with all the organizations I volunteer with
    - Be up to date on company books
    - Organize personal papers and get pension papers in order

    Week 1 - 32.33 miles (5/10,000)
    Week 2 - 37.17 miles (10/10) = 69.5 miles

    Aug 14 - 1.1 miles .....438 kms on my butt....drove into Edmonton
    Aug 15 - 5.6 miles - 12318 steps (11/10) 438 kms home again....
    Aug 16 - 3.1 miles

    Finally got to my desk to organize some papers, pay some bills.... still have garden to take care of. I have yet to figure out how to walk on the spot and shell peas. !!

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