The Eowyn Challenge, Week 2

[samyazaz]

I walked about 19 miles this week. --Actually, I walked more than that. I forgot my pedometer at home one day this week. After a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth and trying to figure out ways to game the system, I decided that if/when that happens, I'm just going to have to deal with the loss of those steps. I could have manually added

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[samyazaz]

Oh, trust me, it's not grace. I was super pissed when I realized I'd forgotten it. There was definitely some swearing and some foot stomping. I had just gotten to work, and if there'd been any way to go back home and get it without being horrifically late, I would have.

Then I wondered if it would be possible to just manually add the steps in later. Turns out you can add an activity and it'll add those steps to the day's count, but it won't add them to any of the lifetime counts, which is what I'm using to keep track of my distance. Then I thought maybe I would just game the system by shaking the fitbit enough to add an extra 2000 steps a day, and that way make up my 10k over the course of the week. But I quickly realized that that would have taken forever, and I was too lazy for that. So that pretty much left giving up that day's steps, or keeping track of the days I'd missed and manually adding those to the total forever. I know myself well enough to (grudgingly) acknowledge that that way lies failure. It was the difficulty of keeping track of everything myself that made me give up on this challenge every other time I've tried it over the past five years.

What sort of neighborhood do you live in? I wish we had awesome stuff to discover here, but it's a bedroom community, so it's just houses, houses, houses. I really like listening to podcasts or awesome music when I go out for a walk, too. Something to keep my brain occupied. (And ooh, Les Mis! <3 Which version are you listening to? I tend to favor the 10th anniversary concert soundtrack, but that's probably because that was my first introduction to it, so it's stuck with me.) I also really love Zombies, Run! for entertainment and motivation to get my butt out the door. It's like a radio play sort of thing -- there's episodes and stories, interspersed with your own music. So cool.

I'm definitely going to have to start making an effort to get my butt out of the house and on walks more soon. I've only got about three and a half days left at my externship, and then it's likely to be back to sedentary life on the couch until I find myself a job. >_< As an alternative, though, I've been thinking that I might need to work on just moving more throughout the day, instead of one big push to go on an Actual Walk. What I really need to make sure I keep is the stamina to be able to walk and be on my feet all day long, so I'm thinking I might go for something like, "Walk around for five minutes every hour" or "Walk around the house during commercial breaks" or something. At least having the pedometer keeping track of it all should be pretty good motivation to not just slide back into my lazy, sedentary ways. :)