Today's count, 12925 steps. That's a run with Maia in the morning followed by a walk at lunch time. The lunchtime walk was just over 5km, will aim to run that route once we can get the current shorter route quicker.
The Strava app' didn't quit half way through my lunchtime walk today, I think the previous issue may have been due to "gesture" unlock and accidental stopping. I'll report back if this continues to work or has more problems.
19th March 2014 - No data
19th March 2015 - 5446 steps
19th March 2016 - No data
19th March 2017 - No data
19th March 2018 - No data
19th March 2019 - No data
19th March 2020 - 12925 steps
I'm going to eventually catch up with one of the dates of one of my mountain walks, but not today!
For every day in March I've taken over 7000 steps. Not sure yet if I'll try 10000 for April or maybe switching some of the walking for a different exercise?
1st March 2020 - 12684 steps
2nd March 2020 - 16827 steps
3rd March 2020 - 10051 steps
4th March 2020 - 13038 steps
5th March 2020 - 8941 steps
6th March 2020 - 10019 steps
7th March 2020 - 14745 steps
8th March 2020 - 10687 steps
9th March 2020 - 9130 steps
10th March 2020 - 11863 steps
11th March 2020 - 12424 steps
12th March 2020 - 8011 steps
13th March 2020 - 7687 steps
14th March 2020 - 7218 steps
15th March 2020 - 19450 steps
16th March 2020 - 9770 steps
17th March 2020 - 7020 steps
18th March 2020 - 8711 steps
19th March 2020 - 12925 steps
Highest count so far this month was from Sunday when I went for a walk along the Hog's Back. May repeat that route again this coming Sunday.
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Barely Made It
7020 steps. As I sat down at my computer to write this I was still 50 steps short of the 7000 required. I went downstairs, made a cup of coco, and her we are 70 steps later. Despite going for a run this morning which got me to well over half way before 8am the rest of the day I've been at my computer or driving.
17th March 2014 - No data
17th March 2015 - 5964 steps
17th March 2016 - No data
17th March 2017 - No data
17th March 2018 - No data
17th March 2019 - No data
17th March 2020 - 7020 steps
It's a good thing that data from previous years was sparse today.
Tomorrow's goal a little higher since the data for 18th March 2018, since that's the only year I appear to have data covering March, is 7156, which would still be a few more trips down and back up the stairs.
The run was good. Sun rise times meant that the sun is now just above the houses at 6:30am and shone right in my eyes. Not a blistering pace yet, still walking to the start point, running the circuit, then walking back. At a little over 3km I hope to increase the distance and run all the way. At the moment we get 3km covered comfortably within half an hour, still giving us time to shower and prepare before getting out of the door at 8am.
It's a good thing that data from previous years was sparse today.
Tomorrow's goal a little higher since the data for 18th March 2018, since that's the only year I appear to have data covering March, is 7156, which would still be a few more trips down and back up the stairs.
The run was good. Sun rise times meant that the sun is now just above the houses at 6:30am and shone right in my eyes. Not a blistering pace yet, still walking to the start point, running the circuit, then walking back. At a little over 3km I hope to increase the distance and run all the way. At the moment we get 3km covered comfortably within half an hour, still giving us time to shower and prepare before getting out of the door at 8am.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Seven Thousand Steps
I've been trying to maintain seven thousand steps per day. Some days I've had to do a short walk before bedtime to scrape in the step count.
Today's count was 17247 following a 10km walk.
I've got a script set up which is pulling step counts into a Google spreadsheet. I've got data from my Android phone that goes back to 2014, though there's some patches missing in the earlier data.
I think I'll re-awaken this blog to record my fitness journey.
With the COVID-19 outbreak I may have chosen the wrong year to try signing up for a sponsored event. The London Marathon has been postponed until October, likely that other events will get postponed or cancelled too.
I'm currently using Strava, Garmin Connect and Virgin Pulse, along with the spreadsheet which is pulling information from Google Fit.
Strava uses GPS on either my Android phone or Android Wear watch to track my walks and runs. I've had varying success with the app and how it works with the phone and the watch.
Garmin Connect takes my step count from a health band that I wear 24x7. This tracks steps and sleep. The good thing about this specific health band is that, having very few features it doesn't use much battery power and runs off regular watch batteries instead of needing frequent charging.
Virgin Pulse pulls in data from Garmin and Google fit. The reason I'm using this is it's a service paid for by the company I work for. There's various "challenges" within groups and a certain social element to it.
Each of the systems has something that it tracks which it won't share with the others, there's a certain amount of manual data entry for some aspects.
I weigh myself every day. I'm not overly concerned about my weight but I do want to ensure that it stays sensible. I use Renpho ES-20M Bluetooth scales which automatically send my weight to an app on my phone. While the app does write my weight to Google Fit that information isn't then passed on to Strava, Garmin Connect nor Virgin Pulse. I enter the information into Garmin and Virgin Pulse manually.
At the end of the March, if I've been able to maintain 7000 steps all month, then for April I'll up the game to 10000 steps per day.
Stay tuned for updates and statistics!
Today's count was 17247 following a 10km walk.
I've got a script set up which is pulling step counts into a Google spreadsheet. I've got data from my Android phone that goes back to 2014, though there's some patches missing in the earlier data.
I think I'll re-awaken this blog to record my fitness journey.
With the COVID-19 outbreak I may have chosen the wrong year to try signing up for a sponsored event. The London Marathon has been postponed until October, likely that other events will get postponed or cancelled too.
I'm currently using Strava, Garmin Connect and Virgin Pulse, along with the spreadsheet which is pulling information from Google Fit.
Strava uses GPS on either my Android phone or Android Wear watch to track my walks and runs. I've had varying success with the app and how it works with the phone and the watch.
Garmin Connect takes my step count from a health band that I wear 24x7. This tracks steps and sleep. The good thing about this specific health band is that, having very few features it doesn't use much battery power and runs off regular watch batteries instead of needing frequent charging.
Virgin Pulse pulls in data from Garmin and Google fit. The reason I'm using this is it's a service paid for by the company I work for. There's various "challenges" within groups and a certain social element to it.
Each of the systems has something that it tracks which it won't share with the others, there's a certain amount of manual data entry for some aspects.
I weigh myself every day. I'm not overly concerned about my weight but I do want to ensure that it stays sensible. I use Renpho ES-20M Bluetooth scales which automatically send my weight to an app on my phone. While the app does write my weight to Google Fit that information isn't then passed on to Strava, Garmin Connect nor Virgin Pulse. I enter the information into Garmin and Virgin Pulse manually.
At the end of the March, if I've been able to maintain 7000 steps all month, then for April I'll up the game to 10000 steps per day.
Stay tuned for updates and statistics!
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