Activity Day 15: Crazy day, so I didn’t get much walking in. Gonna have to make up some miles over the rest of the week.
Miles walked/run: 2.16 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 288.05
Today’s sponsor: Piedmont Triad Apartment Association Food Drive. I’m very proud to work for an organization that has dedicated itself to helping address fundamental issues like food insecurity in our community
Activity Day 14: It was HOT today (low 90s), so I waited until the evening to do my walk. We seem to have skipped spring and gone straight into summer. My better half came outside to see me off and I caught a shadow pic (see below).
Miles walked/run: 7.37 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 290.21. Back on the pace needed to reach my goal by July 7.
Today’s sponsor: Piedmont Triad Apartment Association Food Drive. I’m very proud to work for an organization that has dedicated itself to helping address fundamental issues like food insecurity in our community.
Activity Day 13: After the last week the dogs weren’t just barking, they were howling, so I decided to take it pretty darn easy. Did a little puttering but for the most part, it was a rest and recovery day.
Miles walked/run: 1.72 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 297.58. This puts me a scooch behind my pace, but I’ll make it up tomorrow.
Today’s sponsor: Piedmont Triad Apartment Association Food Drive. I’m very proud to work for an organization that has dedicated itself to helping address fundamental issues like food insecurity in our community.
Activity Day 12: Our daughter needed some help moving into her new apartment, so the day was spent toting stuff out of one apartment, loading cars and unloading at the new place. Luckily, her boyfriend recruited his brothers and one buddy to help so I didn’t have to move much furniture. Overall, one of the easier moves of my extended career as a volunteer mover.
Miles walked/run: 4.76 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 299.3. Woot!Less than 300 left to go.
Today’s sponsor: Piedmont Triad Apartment Association Food Drive. I’m very proud to work for an organization that has dedicated itself to helping address fundamental issues like food insecurity in our community.
Activity Day 11: A nice long walk on the Bicentennial Greenway, from north High Point into Jamestown. There’s a creek that the path crosses over several times and the vast majority of the path is shaded by trees, which makes it a very pleasant walk…even when it rains.
Miles walked/run: 8.2 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 304. Now a few miles ahead of the pace needed to make the goal by July 7.
Today’s sponsor: Piedmont Triad Apartment Association Food Drive. I’m very proud to work for an organization that has dedicated itself to helping address fundamental issues like food insecurity in our community.
Activity Day 10: Had a busy day and had to squeeze in a neighborhood walk between 10:45 and midnight on Thursday night. Definition of “Just Do It.”
Miles walked/run: 5.57 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 312.2. Now ahead of pace!
Today’s sponsor: Piedmont Triad Apartment Association Food Drive. I’m very proud to work for an organization that has dedicated itself to helping address fundamental issues like food insecurity in our community.
Activity Day 6: After the 12+ miles on Day 5 the old legs needed a day to recover, so I spent it working around the house and yard. Just doing that I still managed to get a few miles in.
Miles walked/run: 3.07 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 334.35
Today’s sponsor: Crescent Rotary Club (via my contribution). The members of this club do a tremendous amount of good for our community.
Activity Day 4: When your better half has an unexpected and kinda scary medical event you don’t do anything but take care of her, so that’s what I did.
Activity Day 5: I was supposed to be in Florida helping my mom pack up her house, but due to the events of Day 4 she recruited someone else. So I made sure my better half was in solid shape and headed to Salem Lake for a walk/run.
Miles walked/run: 12.72 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 337.42
Today’s sponsor: Crescent Rotary Club (via my contribution. The members of this club do a tremendous amount of good for our community.
Activity: Walked from Williamsburg Square to Stratford Road and around
Miles walked/run: 7.04 miles. Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 355.57
Today’s sponsor: The PTAA Food Drive which began today and runs through July 7.
Today was the first day of my 68-day challenge to walk a cumulative 367 miles, the same distance that I would have to walk to reach the farthest-apart apartment communities that are members of my organization, the Piedmont Triad Apartment Association. The goal is to raise at least $1,000 for the Second Harvest Food Bank of NWNC. If you want to make a donation you can do so here.
Each day I will post the results of what I did to reach my goal, and I won’t count the regular day-to-day “getting around steps.” Here are today’s results:
Activity: Tennis
Miles walked/run: 4.39 miles (mostly sprinting so I’m wiped out). Here’s the screenshot from my FitBit:
Miles remaining in challenge: 362.61
Today’s sponsor: The PTAA Food Drive which began today and runs through July.
