A year ago, I set a goal of 2,730,000 steps, an average of 7500 steps per day. Thanks to the ongoing pandemic and a summer where I did very little to take advantage of no longer having to go to work, I fell quite a bit short of my challenge, finishing more than a million steps behind with only 1,663,7491, the fourth straight year I’ve failed to surpass my yearly goal and the only times I’ve failed aside from 2014 under the old GlobalFit program.  My average step total per week was 31,995.98, which comes out to about 4570.9 steps per day. The median weekly step total was 30,221.  My best week was Week 2, where my vacation in Hawaii led to seven straight 10,000 step days, propelling me over to 77,000 steps for the week.  My worst week was Week 49, although that was caused more by my Fitbit dying an unexpected death and needing a few days to acquire a new one.

For the upcoming year, I’m going to keep things as is, in the hopes that I can finally reverse this downward trend. I am leaving my goal for steps per day at 7500, which would again bring me to a yearly total of 2,730,000 steps. Hopefully this fifth attempt, now that I’ve got this WFH thing down pat, is the one that sticks.