Ryan Collins

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  • I’ve completed my first year of 12,000 steps of day

    I’ve completed my first year of 12,000 steps of day

    Continuing my streak of 10,000 steps a day, I decided to up my game to 12,000 steps a day. That’s not an average, I walk at least 12,000 steps a day. My original plan started back on September 18th, but for some reason I missed my 12,000 steps a day on the 24th, so I had to start over.

    Here are my stats for the past year:

    I am not a fan of August…

    It’s 850,000 steps less than the year before, but I didn’t get embroiled in a step competition this year.

    Time to retire the Fitbit One

    Let’s pour one out for my Fitbit One. It’s battery is still going strong (although if I use it for sleep tracking it needs charged every 2 or 3 days) even after 6 years. I bought it on September 16th, 2014. First year of the Fitbit barely broke 3 million steps.

    I bought an Apple Watch a year and a half ago, but it had an issue with steps. Whenever I would use my treadmill desk, it would not be able to calculate the steps correctly. A couple of months ago I did some research, which led me to purchasing an arm band for my Apple Watch. Now my Apple Watch can accurately track steps not only when I’m on the treadmill desk, but also when I’m grocery shopping or push mowing the lawn.

  • Two years of 10,000 steps a day – 6.9 million for the year

    Two years of 10,000 steps a day – 6.9 million for the year

    Today is the two year anniversary of walking (not just averaging) 10,000 steps per day. This last year I walked a total of 6.9 million steps. This is a major increase over the year before, and that was because I stupidly signed up for a step competition at work.

    Back in March, I was asked if I wanted to join a team at the high school for a step competition. I was training for a marathon at the end of April, so I said, why not? Unfortunately, I had no idea what I was getting myself in to.

    I originally planned for approximately 18,000 steps a day. This would give me one million steps by the end of the competition, and, what I assumed, would be first place. Oh, how I could not be more wrong.

    The high school soccer coach went out like gangbusters in the first week, beating me by 64,000 steps for the week. I could not let this go, and I stepped up my walking (see what I did there? stepped up my walking :-). My alarm would be set for 4:30am, and I would have almost 20,000 steps in before work. For last Christmas, we got a new treadmill for home. The old treadmill was set up in my office with a computer and dual monitors so I could walk and work at the same time. This became very important because I was having to spend 7-8 hours a day walking. Tara was not impressed, and neither were my feet. I rarely have issues with blisters, but for the last month I was continually having to deal with them.

    With the help of the step competition I broke several person records. On May 14 I had 65,439 steps, first time I’ve broken 65,000 steps in a day. During week 7 of the competition I had 353,380 steps (over 50,000 per day)!

    In the end I was victorious, with 2.2 million number of steps in the step competition. To put that number in to perspective, I had 4.5 million steps in my first year of 10,000 steps a day.

    For the next year, I’m upping the ante to 12,000 steps per day. I started back on September 18, so I’m already two months into that goal.

  • Missed it by one step

    Missed it by one step

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  • But I would walk 2,020 miles, and I would walk 2,020 miles more

    But I would walk 2,020 miles, and I would walk 2,020 miles more

    Today marks the end of 1 year of walking at least 10,000 steps a day. Why did I start November 6th of 2017? I don’t know. There have been some rough patches where I was lucky to get my steps in. Twice I was sick, but I still drug myself to the treadmill. Once I was almost in bed when I realized I needed a few hundred more steps. And then, with 5 days to go, disaster strikes!

    I got home and was changing out of my work clothes. My watch had me at 6,500 steps which isn’t bad, only 3,500 steps to go. I pulled out my FitBit and checked how many steps it had, but the Fitbit was non-responsive. At some point of the day, the battery died. I plugged it in, hoping that there were at least a few thousand steps on it. Once the Fitbit turned back on I checked: 263. That means it died as soon as I got to work. So, after letting the FitBit get a little bit of a charge, I hit the treadmill. An hour and twenty minutes later I have over 10,000 steps and I can sleep easy. I could have just gone off of my watch, but the FitBit website has all of these cool stats that I wanted to use once I made it a year, so I had to do the steps with the FitBit.

    Last fall I lost my FitBit not once, but twice in a two week period. The first was in the back yard. I lost it while raking leaves. Using my phone, I could narrow the location of the FitBit down to a general location, but I was going to need a little more help and luck. Since sight was going to help, I turned on the FitBit’s vibration alarm and then listened closely to the piles of leaves. Luckily enough, I found it! Then a little over a week later, we were up town for the Christmas parade. At some point of walking around, I lost my FitBit again! I didn’t realize it until I got home, so I ran back up town. By this time, the town was pretty quiet, and a slight rain had started as I retraced my steps. To help find the FitBit, I used the FitBit app on my phone. It would show a connection once I got within 30 feet of the device. Luckily for me, I didn’t need it, I saw the FitBit on the sidewalk.

    Did I lose any weight? Not really. But that wasn’t the point. I wanted to be able to walk anywhere and for however long I needed. The most steps in a day was during our trip to Disney World back in June. On that day I walked 25,713 steps, a few hundred steps shy of a half marathon. That vacation was also the week with the most steps, 121,973 (an average of 17,424 steps per day). Surprisingly, I almost had that many steps during the fair, missing it by 45 steps.

    Since I use a FitBit, I can be awarded different badges for completing certain milestones. Here are the badges I earned:

    * Great Wall – Completing 5,500 lifetime miles
    * Spaceship – Completing 14,000 floors
    * Africa Badge – Completing 5,000 lifetime miles
    * Nile Badge – Completing 4,132 lifetime miles (the length of the Nile)

    My total steps for the year was 4,446,173 with a mileage of 2,019.83. I’ll probably
    continue, knowing that at sometime I will miss my 10,000 steps.

  • 500 more steps!!!

    500 more steps!!!