As the first half of my first year using the Fitbit draws to a close, it is time to check in on my progress towards my goal of 2,002,000 steps, or an average of 5500 per day. One half of that total would be 1,001,000. So how did I do?

In a word, tremendously.  I put up 63.5% of my goal for the year in the first six months, finishing with 1,270,816 steps.  That translates to a little under 650 miles, which is a little mind-blowing.  Along the way, I also managed to climb nearly 1300 steps.

Other than the first week, which didn’t start until Thursday, every week has surpassed my weekly goal of 38,500 steps.  This is much better than my success rate under the GlobalFit program, where I was at 13 out of 30 in the aborted Year 4 and 25 out of 52 in Year 3.  Hopefully things continue at this pace, especially once the weather starts to cool down.