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| My personal best day at 25,585 steps |
I was doing pretty good with keeping up with my walking for a while until some health issues sidelined me for a short time in February/March of this year, but I was given the go-ahead to resume normal activities, so I'm starting to get back at it. What a great time for the Fitbit folks to issue this amazing challenge!
The challenge is a big one. In an effort to beat Fitbit's total highest number of steps in one day, on Saturday, May 16, 2015, Fitbit is challenging all users to beat their best day ever. They've leveled the playing field by asking each of us to beat our own personal best day, rather than set a specific step goal for all.
Mine will be tough to beat. My best step day recorded since I got my Fitbit One was 25,585 steps on October 22, 2014. At my stride, that's more than 10 miles! I haven't even come close to that before or since, and I've only occasionally been meeting my 12,000 step daily goal lately. I've got new health issues cropping up almost daily, and some of them do affect my walking, so it might not be physically possible to make it, but I'm going to give it my best shot.
I just checked my specific stats for that day and wow, I can't believe I did all that in one day. I walked up and down the big hill on my street several times that day, enough to log 54 flights of stairs, and almost 11 miles! Once I got going and did several walks throughout that day, I decided to shoot for the 25K badge. You can see by the chart that I was a walking machine that day, LOL.
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| Did I really walk almost 11 miles that day? (Click to enlarge) |
I'm going to try to build up to it by walking a little more each of the three days until goal day on Saturday, and hope I don't burn myself out in the process. My feet have been swelling horribly lately and we haven't been able to pinpoint why yet, and now other areas of my body are swelling too, so hopefully this push won't do further harm. I'm not going to give up, but not listening to my body could have serious consequences (remember that knee injury over two years ago?), so I need to be smart and find a balance.
Are you up for the challenge? What record will you be trying to beat?
~ Marie Anne
Don't have a Fitbit activity tracker yet? What are you waiting for?
Just got a FitBit (for Mom's Day - from my own mom). What a great way to start the momentum!
ReplyDeleteOh, fun! Will it be easy enough for you to pass your personal best, since you don't have many days under your belt?
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