FINAL GCC

There it is, the final graph for the 2012 Global Corporate Challenge.

 

 

And here's the final stats:

While those numbers are good, my weight loss goal did not go as expected. I have recently made changes to my diet to hopefully assist with reaching my ideal weight. It's those damn BMI charts I see and when I look @ my height and where I should be, I'm *at least* 20 pounds over where I should be. Hello diet pop and water!

I intend to continue wearing a pedometer and recording my daily steps even though the GCC is over. I think it is good for me to have that push, that accountability of taking 10,000 steps a day. Hopefully, it'll work for me.

Just a Bit to Go...

With two days to go in the Global Corporate Challenge, these are my stats and the stats of the team:

 

And this is the overall graph since day one:

 

Proud of Myself

I have been making a real effort to push my steps. I am now averaging more steps than my team of 6 others and more steps than my organization (employer). There are only a few weeks left so I need to keep up the push.

After 77 days...

After 68 days...

Consistency. That's the thing. There's not a lot of it in the graph below.

Status

Walking, walking, walking, and yet, I'm here, writing, writing, writing.

Step Status Stupendously Seen

The last two days were not good for stepping, as shown below:

However, I do not see that trend continuing as I return to work tomorrow. My co-workers and I are pretty rigid regarding going for at least a walk in the AM. Sometimes, the PM walk doesn't happen due to just getting busy with the things that need to get done during the day.

Good Quote and Walking Stats

"I'm never wrong. I thought I was wrong once but it turns out that I was mistaken."
Here's my walking progress. I expect to have a lot of steps on vacation. I expect to probably top 20,000 at least once. My previous high was back in May when I recorded 18,000 steps.



I am 2608 steps below where I should be. That's not bad. There's 37 days and my goal is 370000.



I am very happy with my progress.

Sparingly, Making Progress

Not a full-fledged week of work on the conversions, but a little progress was made. It's so easy to slip authentic CDs - ones sold in a record store - versus CD-Rs that were acquired as a result of CD-R trading.
Here's the count, crossing the 43,000 threshhold!
           43013 File(s) 228,443,851,888 bytes
What I would love to do is sit in the basement and watch WWE and convert CDs tonight.
As far as walking 10,000 steps a day, well... last week wasn't so good for that.

I'm hoping to kick it up a notch this week and get things back to where they were during days 13 - 18, which were a good stretch of overachieving. I'd also like to meet or exceed my team's average as I don't want to be the drag down stat person.

Walking A Bit...

Still going strong with the GCC.

Day 18 and moving!

Week 1 - GCC

After a week of the GCC, here's where I am.

So this shows that Memorial Day was a personal best. I walked 16,000 steps. Since then, back to where I was before. With camping next week and being on vacation, I expect my step count to go up quite a bit. I plan to get up early on Friday, Saturday, and even Sunday and to go for a walk.

This graphic shows that I am above the step average for my team but below the average of "my organization" which I would like to match. It means less sitting on the couch at night and more going for a walk. The route I take is about 5 miles roundtrip and shown below. I need to make it more of a habit to show myself that I am serious.

I have a lot of things that I am getting serious about in my life. I want to walk more, I want to drink less Pepsi (somedays, I am more successful than other days, and I want to drop 20 lbs before the end of summer. I am getting a gut and I do not like it. At all. I've always been "too skinny" in the eyes of some and I'm seeing my 40-ish body start to betray me a bit. It's more work than it used to be to get up in the AM, to do simple things. I feel sore.

So that's why I am so serious about this GCC and about walking and about doing more than I think I can. This walking 10,000 steps a day is a serious effort on my part. I am energized by it. I want to do well. I want to exceed the organization's average. I want to top 16,000 steps at least one more time in the next few weeks. I want to drink less Pepsi and drink more water.

All of these are important to me. And it is up to me to not be a lazy oaf. No one is going to tell me to walk more. Just me. It's up to me. The question becomes: what is important to me.

Foiled by Rain

I left the house @ 7:15 AM and walked about 20 minutes before it started to rain. So I returned home. I will have to get my steps in later today for the GCC.

Now I'm converting a cassette of James, Stoff, Shoebox, and some silent listeners getting drunk and playing a bunch of songs, including the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go", Iron Maiden's "The Number Of The Beast", Lynard Skynnard's "Sweet Home Alabama" and a bunch of originals.

I wasn't there. There were two parallels in the formation of Old Stew, the band I played in at the Mount Mercy College talent show. On one parallel, there was James, Stoff, and Shoebox, and on the other parallel, there was Ken and I. And then... and then the parallel lines crossed.

GCC- Day 4

I'm busting my a$$ to get my 10,000 steps in and am averaging above the 10,000 step mark. BUT, it's not enough. Here's my team's stats:

So I'm not even at my team's average! By 891 steps, I'm below average. I need to step up, as it were.