Event: Marathon in a Month - 2021

Okay so, rain + finals week is making progress a bit hard to come by. Still, on the 5th I walked a today of 4.4 miles, yesterday I walked 2.1 miles and today I walked 2.6 miles.

Making it a grand total of 26.5 / 25

So yay, I guess I completed my goal in a week? That's neat.

Let's see how far we can go before the month's over.
 
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I exhaustedly ran 2.61 miles today (don't drink energy drinks, they are bad for you), making it 9.9 miles out of 140.6 miles that I've done so far. I'll be walking a *lot* tomorrow and will record that to hopefully make up for it.
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Walked 7.83 miles today while volunteering all day at a charity store, making my total 17.73 miles out of 140.6 miles. That's more like it!
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I've been trying to walk almost every day and today was actually my longest only because the river flooded part of our walk route so we had to take a detour.

I'm up to 12.22 outta 50 miles.
 
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Walked 7.83 miles today while volunteering all day at a charity store, making my total 17.73 miles out of 140.6 miles. That's more like it!
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So this is a bit of a big update....
Last Saturday, I walked 4.87 miles for more volunteering... Then yesterday, I ran 3.05 miles... And today... I biked 10.14 miles! (this was a learning experience for me as I had a few issues with FitBit tracking me on the trip back home). That's 18.06 miles total since Saturday. Now I'm 35.79 miles out of 140.6 miles (25%), and the fun begins! Yay....
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I'm up to 19.18 outta 50.

I wasn't able to get much walking in this past week with trying to help my friend get better after a really bad ear infection.
 
It's been a while, I guess.

So, on the 8th, I walked a total of 3.9 miles.
On the 9th, I walked 4.1 miles.
On the 10th, I walked 2.8 miles.
On the 11th, I walked 4.4 miles.
On the 12th, I walked 3.3 miles and I haven't really walked significant distances since (although that will probably change this week since things are a lot calmer now and I can go back to my routine.)

This makes for a total of 45 / 25.
 
Okay, so, on the 18th I walked 8.7 miles.
On the 19th I walked 3.9 miles.
On the 20th I walked 1.1 miles.
On the 21st I walked 1.9 miles.
On the 22nd I walked 4.3 miles.
And today I walked 5 miles.

Making that a total of 69.9 / 25 miles. I don't think I'll be able to make 100 but I think something like high 80s is certainly feasible.
 
I'm up to 37.5 miles out of 50. Tuesday made me wanna break my legs off after Mikey and I went down to Detroit to walk the riverfront to play Pokémon. That was almost 5 miles right there. I've been getting little over 2 miles of walking in a day because he drags me outta the house and we usually walk around the park to play Pokémon.
 
Walked an extra 6.8 miles today!

For a total of 76.7 / 25 miles.

Edit: Walked 5.2 miles on the 25th and 4 miles on the 26th bumping the total to 85.9 / 25 miles.

Edit2: Walked 6.6 miles on the 27th, so we can bump that total to 92.5 / 25 miles.
 
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My leg didn't want to help these last few days so I didn't do a lot of walking, so here are the last few distances I walked:

On the 28th I walked a total of 2.9 miles.
On the 29th I walked a total of 2 miles.

Making my grand total for the month 97.4 / 25

Kinda sad I didn't break 100, but considered there was the end of the term and a lot of rain, I think it was actually a pretty decent showing.
 
I came up with 45.8 out of 50. Kinda upset I didn't hit 50 but I still managed to do more walking than I thought I would. I feel like if I still worked at Round 1 I would have had a lot more walking in.
 
I could not get my phone to count steps correctly when I have it in my pocket, but luckily my girlfriend's does just fine. And since we work together for majority of the week, I could keep track of how many steps I approximately took. Not only that, but we also play Pokémon GO together, so I could track my steps better.

In the end, I walked around 46 miles in October. I really have to fix my phone, because I'm so used to track my steps nowdays that I'm nervous when I see only 100 steps taken per day.
 
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So this is a bit of a big update....
Last Saturday, I walked 4.87 miles for more volunteering... Then yesterday, I ran 3.05 miles... And today... I biked 10.14 miles! (this was a learning experience for me as I had a few issues with FitBit tracking me on the trip back home). That's 18.06 miles total since Saturday. Now I'm 35.79 miles out of 140.6 miles (25%), and the fun begins! Yay....
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Since this post, I decided to let my FitBit keep recording data from my activities. The graphs and activity tickers display weirdly on the app and the website, and they completely omit what I did on the 15th and 16th. Thankfully, I exported all the hard data from the website..

So, without further ado, I'll begin by listing stuff from after my bikeride on the 12th...

Wednesday, 13 October: Rode 10.68 miles on my bike
Friday, 15 October: I ran 3.1 miles, and I'm proud about this run: I had about a 7'45" mile pace on this even while running more up hills, which was loads better than how I did on Monday.
Saturday, 16 October: I rode my bike 10.29 miles early in the morning. Felt pretty comfortable with riding at this point.
Monday, 18 October: I decided to ride an indoor bike at the gym for 12.41 miles. Sadly the bikes don't connect up to Fitbit, so I had to manually record it. But I did get some reading in which was kinda cool, and I got done earlier too.
Tuesday, 19 October: I rode indoors again for 15.58 miles. This was really an efficient way to get the miles in, but I didn't feel quite so challenged...
Friday, 22 October: ....so because I didn't feel quite so challenged earlier in the week, I decided to ride my bike on Friday evening for 31.71 miles outside. That was brutal. I flopped indoors and almost didn't go volunteer or swimming on Saturday.
Tuesday, 26 October: I had a good few days of recovery after Friday, so I rode indoors for 12 miles.
Wednesday, 27 October: I was almost at the end for the amount of cycling I needed to finish, so I decided to go cycle 10.2 miles outdoors and knock out my 110 mile goal for cycling. I couldn't let it get to my head though, because I had rowing next...
Thursday, 28 October: I went to a gym and rowed for 7 miles (11266 meters). Next time I go rowing for this long, I'll bring gloves. I still have blisters on my hands... But I was finally done with my "triathlon" goals of biking, running, and rowing (substituted for swimming)!

So, after my last post reaching the "milestone" of 35.79 miles, I cranked out 112.97 miles, bringing my total to the month of 148.79 miles (113.01 miles biked, 28.78 miles ran/walked, and 7 miles rowed), a bit more than the 140.6 miles that I set as a goal. Whoo.

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Oct. 4th: 3.21 mi
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Oct. 5th: 3.61 mi
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Oct. 6th: 3.85 mi
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Oct. 7th: 2.55 mi
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Oct. 8th: 3.32 mi
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Oct. 9th: 3.79 mi
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Oct. 10th: 4.24 mi
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Oct. 11th: 4.67 mi
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Oct. 13th: 4.26 mi
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Oct. 14th: 3.43 mi
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Oct. 17th: 5.66 mi
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Oct. 18th: 3.79 mi
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Oct. 19th: 4.79 mi
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Oct. 20th: 4.49 mi
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Oct. 21st: 3.93 mi
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Oct. 22nd: 6.37 mi
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Oct. 23rd: 3.47 mi
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Oct. 24th: 6.86 mi
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Oct. 25th: 2.97 mi
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Oct. 26th: 3.82 mi
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Oct. 28th: 3.7 mi
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Oct. 29th: 1.33 mi
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Oct. 30th: 5.48 mi
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93.59 mi

Which, combined with the 9.19 mi from my last update should be 102.78 mi so I just made it!!!!
 
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