Back in 2012 I started pursuing the widely discredited and laughably souveillancey target of trying to do an average of 10,000 steps a day. I managed that and have since raised my sights by 1,000 steps-per-day every year since.
This year I just, only just, managed 15,000 steps per day. It was not easy.
So, I'm going to settle for that. I'm going to continue at 15,000. If nothing else it makes me realise that I'm very lucky in all of those years not to have had an extensive period of injury or illness that would have meant days or weeks with no steps at all. That would have made it impossible.
15,000 steps is about 7 miles a day. That's a lot. It's also a substantial amount of time just walking. I need to think about using that time to do more than just trudge.
For the record:
2012: 4,432,605 (12,110 per day)
2013: 4,256,213 (11,660 per day)
2014: 4,945,382 (13,548 per day)
2015: 6,029,183 (16,518 per day)
2016: 5,393,867 (14,737 per day)
2017: 5,478,141 (15,008 per day)
I gave up on the Withings Go halfway through the year. Somewhere. It was too unreliable. I'm relying on my phone and watch, using the Pedometer++ app. That means I have to manually update my spreadsheet and the silly little dashboard I've made
Ideally I need a steps API out of IOS that connects to Zapier or something I can connect to a Google spreadsheet. A project for when I'm not walking.