I'm sorry for being MIA

I was sick all through January, and it turned out to be a sinus infection. So I was on antibiotics for half of February. I'm finally caught up, though, and should be able to get our mileage widget set up soon. Knock on wood; they're saying another flu epidemic is going through the region...

Through Jan 15th

Here's what my week looked like:

Steps: 32035
PED Miles: 13.63
Non-PED Miles: 5.86
Total Miles: 19.49
YTD Total: 32.71

How's everyone else doing?

Through Jan 8th

If we'd started a week earlier, I'd have had over 30 miles to contribute, but here's my piddling start to the year. I'm hoping for that to improve :).

For the week:
Steps: 19656
Total Miles: 12.11

YTD Total: 13.22

How's everyone else doing so far?

Through January 4

I know Bonnie's been under the weather and hasn't had time to set us up on our new walk yet, but I'm sure most of you have been walking the trail anyway.

Here's my total through Tuesday, January 4:

Steps:  15,585

Distance:  8.35 miles

update: starting January 1

Cross-posted to Cowgirl in New England


I'm not sure how many people are in on this -- November was a bad time to suggest starting, what with NaNoWriMo and all. And now the holidays are upon us.

But we did decide that instead of keeping separate tallies, we're going to count as a group. So each person's individual daily total will be added to collective mileage. This will accomplish two things:

1. Make it possible to finish the Pacific Crest trail in only a year or two

2. Make sure the slower walkers don't get left behind to straggle in by themselves. I know this discouraged several people last time.

2a. Also, people will be able to join whenever they want to.

I need to track down maps and locate or write an appropriate widget. Shouldn't be too much work if I can find time to do it in the next couple of weeks.

Day 30

I haven't calibrated the pedometer for distance yet, so I've been tracking steps. Average stay-around-the-house days are about 3,300; days when I run errands are between 5,000 and 6,000 steps. (And I typed "words" first instead of "steps." Talk about dreaming!)

I was going to set a goal for myself for December of 6,000 steps a day -- a bit more than my max, but doable, without too much stress, and because I do have so many stay at home days, a definite net increase in activity. My bout with bronchitis is making that take a back seat -- I might aim to start around December 15, but we'll see how I'm feeling.

Sometime this week, I'll total active vs. passive days and post my best guess for mileage so far.

Day 17

I'm at 32 miles for the month. I'm pretty sure I have more than that but I forgot to write down a couple of days. Oh well.

I looked at options for making a trail map for us, but haven't had time to work on it yet. Maybe after NaNo.