March of the Chicks... A Challenge
 

Hello

Would anyone like to join me in a million step chick march? Together we can do it! Here is how it works:

First, please sign up in the "March of the Chicks...Signup" thread.

Then once a week post the number of steps you can contribute. If you have been keeping track recently, toss those into the pot to start out with.

Please use this format:

Steps this week:
Total number of steps:

I will keep track and post on a regular basis how many steps we have. When we hit one million, each participant gets to go out and get themselves something special as a reward!

This is not a contest! If you are just starting out and get just a few that is fine. Together we can make it. Soooooo... how about it, everyone?

I will start out by tossing in my 58,965 I have done this week so far.

Total this week: 58,965
Total steps: 58,965

Ready... set... go!!!!

Dance

Hooray, found the Challenge! I'm in and here's my contribution of steps taken between Tuesday February 14 (when I got my new pedometer and started keeping track) through Sunday February 19: 32,556

May I make the assumption your weeks are going to go Monday through Sunday, so this week will start Monday, February 20 and run through Sunday, February 29? Will we record our contributions on Mondays, then? I'm at a little over 40,000 for this week already.

I'm so excited about this Challenge, what fun! Thank you for coming up with it, Dance!


Steps this week: 59,348 (Monday Feb 20 - Sunday Feb 26)

Total number of steps: 91,904

Hi Lena... Glad you joined in!! And thanks for the step contribution!

Actually I thought we could let people post whatever day they want just so long as it is not more than once a week so it doesn't get too confusing. And we will go until we get to one million steps... LOL I doubt if we can make it by Feb. 29!! But thanks for asking for clarifications; guess I was not clear enough! :)

With both our contributions we are at 91,521!!

Only 908,479 to go! LOL but we can do it! LadyFirelyght and Kayley will be here soon, and hopefully others!

Note: The reason my steps show more on my ticker than here is that I update that one daily!! :)

Dance

Ok, that sounds good. I'll probably post mine on Mondays, if that's ok with you, since I follow a Monday-Sunday week.

Woohoo, we've nearly broken 100K!!!

Yes! It really won't be that hard with all of us working at it!!!

That's great, LilMommi! I've got you down!!! Glad you joined up!!!

LOL rain doesn't stop us much here in Seattle. :)

Dance

I recieved my pedometer today, so I'll post my so far steps on Monday!

Yah that is great, Lady! I have you in the database just waiting for some numbers to appear by your name! :) Can't wait!

Dance4joy... yeah I heard it rains constantly in Seattle. Is that true? I wouldn't mind so much but my kids would. I have a stair stepper I use when it rains. It isn't as much fun though. Maybe when I get the pedometer I can use it while I am on the stepper as well. Does that count?

LOL no it is NOT true at all! It is a lot of hype, and a lot of it intentional. Especially in the summer we have the most glorious blue sunshiny days. However it CAN rain a LOT in winter... LOL like these past couple months we had rain something like 45 days in a row except for one or two in there. Actually I love the rain!! In no way does it rain all the time but for someone who doesn't like rain it's probably not the best place. However, most of the time the rain is more of a heavy mist... and we don't let it stop us much from anything; in fact you will hardly ever see anyone with an umbrella.

And yes of course stepper steps count! I wear my pedometer when doing housework or whatever... most of the day though I usually take it off when just lazing around the house since I like to wear a long nightshirt. But steps are steps, and any way you get them is fair game LOL.

Dance

February 25 and 26th, total steps accumulated: 9075.

It did quite a bit of walking today... but amazingly only have done 5000 steps so far! Maybe I'll go for a long walk in a little while.

That's great, Lady! Yah some days it seems harder to get them in than others.

I have yours down and will post our new totals every Friday evening or Saturday morning!! (But you can post them any time; I am keeping track.)

Dance

If you don't mind, I think I'll post more frequently, that way, I don't fall behind. Here's a contribution:

• Monday, February 27: 6,856 (whoops!!!)
  
• Tuesday, February 28: 10,355
  
• Wednesday, March 1: 10,199
  
  
• Total contributed since I started contributing (February 14): 119,314

Yay Lena... you are doing great! That's fine to go ahead and post them. You got a bunch this week!!! I will go ahead and give our totals and still post again as we go.... hey why wait until the end of the week LOL.

So far we are at 184,145!

Still to go 815,855. We are off to a great start!!! When those other steppers get their pedometers we will knock this out in a hurry!

Wheeee here we go. Steps for Thursday, March 2 = 11,383. Total contribution for me to date = 130,697.

I agree, Dance, I think this goal will be met lickety split!

Wow, Lena, I am glad you posted your total! I realized I had something wrong somewhere and checked; and I had missed your posting of 59,348! I am horrid at math LOL. So our total is now 254,876! We are over 1/4 of the way there!!! Still to go is 745,124!!!!

Dance

LOL I messed up again (still getting the system down and math is NOT my subject)!

Total so far is 263,458

Still to go is 736,542

I had best get off of this computer and get moving and add to this total LOL

Dance

We're getting there, Dance! Already more than 25% done, yahoo!

Contribution from me for yesterday, March 3 = 8,898.

I really wanted to crack 10K but by 9pm last night I was just wiped. I know, 9pm on a Friday, so sad. It was a long week :).

I was tempted to hop on the treadmill just to get the total up, but I was afraid it might wake me up, so I went to bed instead. I know, 9pm on a Friday, pathetic! Watched a bit of a movie before conking out. Zzzzzzzzz...

It's the weekend now, so I doubt I'll be having high totals (I'm a total slacker on weekends) but I'll try!

March 1: 13711
March 2: 11458
March 3: 11026

TOTAL to date: 36,195 steps!

Happy Walking!

Michele : )

Way to go, Michele! That's fantastic!!!

I don't want to wait until Monday to post my totals, so here goes!

2/27 - 7,464 steps
2/28 - 8,494
3/1 - 7,748
3/2 - 11,013
3/3 - 3,290
Total: 38,009

3/2 was moving day, so I spent around 6 hours or so moving furniture with my family. What a workout, I tell you! I probably burned more calories than I ate that day. Yesterday I was so worn out that I literally slept most of the day. I even went to bed early last night because I was so tired. I'm resting again today, because tomorrow I'm heading over to the apartment to pack some more stuff to move here to the house. That's probably going to take all day, so I'll likely get in plenty of steps. Got to conserve my energy today ;)

Wow, Michele, Lydia and Lena! Great job!! We are now (through Friday 3/2) at 346,560!

Still to go = 653,440

It is great that everyone is also keeping track of their own totals... that helps in case I make an error! LOL I would have missed 59,000 of Lena's if you hadn't kept track too! I am baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad at math!!!!

Has everyone decided what their reward is going to be when we make it? Mine is going to be $10 in my cruise "blow money" fund.

Dance

I think I'll give myself a food reward... mint chocolate chip ice cream! Not too much, but I haven't had ice cream in a few months so it'll be a great treat! :D

Well, Lydia, by the time we get to a million steps a little bit of ice cream won't hurt you. :)

March 4 steps: 13,835 for a TOTAL of 50,030 in March!!:D :D

Michele : )

5604 steps yesterday! I need to get moving :P

Oh yippeee, we are nearing the 400,000 mark!!! Lydia, you did great; it's not about how MANY steps we get in but just keeping it up and doing it!!

Total as of Sunday morning 3/5

Steps = 378,999 (oh couldn't one of us have taken ONE more step LOL)
Still to go = 621,001

Okay I am back in business with my new pedometer! No WONDER my step counts have been so low... huge numbers of them have not been registering LOL. Oh well... at least they counted as calories burned even if they didn't count here in the thread!!!

:dance: ~4~Joy

That must be a relief to get the new pedo, Dance! I bet your numbers are now going to go ZOOM through the roof! Dance = 23,949 for the day... :D

All you ladies are doing great and, together we're literally making great strides!

As for me, I'm embarassed to even contribute this piddly little bit. Yesterday was a lazy, hanging out on the couch, grazing and watching movies sort of day (and today's shaping up to be more of the same). Anyway, here goes (don't fall off your chair laughing):

Saturday, March 4: 1,792 :o

Told you it was pitiful! Tomorrow I get back into gear, thank goodness! I see at least one mallwalk in my future this week.

Keep steppin', ladies! We're movin' on!

LOL Lena don't feel bad. I laughed when you said I would have a high day today.... I went to church and home (though my church IS lively so we kind of bop around a lot LOL) and this afternoon I have been updating my resume to apply for a job promotion where I work and submitted it; then laid in bed with a magazine. Don't expect any great contributions from me today LOL.

Sunday is typically my lazy day. <G>

Dance

Good luck with the promotion! I'll keep my :crossed: !

Ok, well, I told you yesterday would be pathetic (along with my slacker Saturday), but at least I broke 2,000! Just barely, but what can I say? I was a total couch potato for the weekend :).

Sunday, March 5 = 2,008

Total contributed since the start of our trek = 143,395

I'll have some bigger numbers to contribute this week, I promise! Starting today!

Make it a good one, folks!

Hey, I am a slacker at times too, especially on Sundays. Since I didn't have the pedometer in the morning, I don't have an exact count but I know it was at least a gigantic 2000 also so that is what I am counting for yesterday.

Weekends are usually my slow time, too. But yesterday (Sunday) was pretty good! March 5 steps: 9211 for a total of 59241 in March!

Happy stepping!

Michele : )

Yesterday I did a whopping 6,467 steps! I was actually pretty pleased with that, since weekends are usually slow days for me as well. Today should be a GREAT day for me. I'm heading off to Sea World! I live a couple miles from there, so I get a season pass and go a LOT. I'll probably be going every week or two this season. I'm normally there for about 4 hours on average, and more than half of that is just walking. So I should get plenty of steps in!

Great job, Michele and Lydia! Wow, Lydia, our total may spring up there when you get back from Sea World LOL.

Well mine are picking up since I got my new pedometer LOL. I actually probably got FEWER than in the past couple weeks, my pedometer got more and which sounded more realistic based on past walking. So today I got 11,586.

Our total is 412,563!!

Still to go = 587,437!

Wow we are really cranking these steps out!!!


Dance

Great job folks!

I can't wait to see what Lydia's Sea World total is!

Dance, another great one for you!

And look at Michelle go! I agree, walking about the mall just lets the steps sneak up on you! Happy birthday-to-come to your little one!

As for me, I managed 10,526 yesterday. That's 5x what I did on Sunday! :lol: Not sure yet how today is going to pan out.

Keep steppin' everyone! At this rate, I bet we'll break 500K by the weekend!

Woooo hoooooo yay! New totals:

Steps walked = 436,748

Still to go = 563,252

Yah we will easily make it by the weekend... go go go!!!