{"id":12154,"date":"2017-04-06T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T00:36:12","slug":"march-madness-steps-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/march-madness-steps-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness Steps Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marchmadnesschallenge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12165\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marchmadnesschallenge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marchmadnesschallenge.jpg 375w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/marchmadnesschallenge-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>As I may have mentioned a time or two, we had a steps challenge at work that wrapped up on Tuesday. \u00a0The goal: to take 780,000 steps in 21 days. \u00a0My team managed to surpass this in 13 days, finishing 203rd out of 2567 teams.<\/p>\n<p>As a team, we finished with 1,193,351 steps. \u00a0I finished fourth on my team, with 206,044 steps, averaging over 9811 steps per day. \u00a0I scored 11 days over 10,000 steps during the challenge, which is more than I notched during all of 2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the challenge is over, I&#8217;m looking forward to taking a bit of a break to rest up. \u00a0My left knee has been bothering me for a while and I may have worn a path in the carpet upstairs. \u00a0Eventually, the next challenge will come down the pike. \u00a0I look forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I may have mentioned a time or two, we had a steps challenge at work that wrapped up on Tuesday. \u00a0The goal: to take 780,000 steps in 21 days. \u00a0My team managed to surpass this in 13 days, finishing 203rd out of 2567 teams. As a team, we finished with 1,193,351 steps. \u00a0I finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[7350,551],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","tag-jiff","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12177,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}