{"id":24175,"date":"2026-04-29T04:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24175"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:52:07","slug":"and-i-would-walk-30000000-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/and-i-would-walk-30000000-more\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Would Walk 30,000,000 More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly fifteen years ago, I started participating in a step tracking program through work that &#8220;\u201cencourages you to track your steps and help you to focus on your fitness in a simple and accessible way.&#8221;\u00a0 That program, utilizing the GlobalFit tracker, ran through February of 2015, where I finished more than three and a half years in the program with over 6.5 million steps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TheEnd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7593\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TheEnd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TheEnd.jpg 301w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TheEnd-300x40.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That same week, I ordered the first of multiple Fitbits I would wear, continuing the project for myself in hopes of getting into better shape and improving my health.\u00a0 Things were going well enough until 2020, when a global pandemic transitioned me to a home-based worker and my daily activity took a big hit.\u00a0 Thanks to some recent weight loss, I&#8217;ve started ramping things back up recently and, yesterday, I surpassed an overall total of 30 million steps.\u00a0 That averages out to a little over 2 million steps per year, which, considering it has been seven years since I&#8217;ve surpassed that total, isn&#8217;t too shabby.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping it doesn&#8217;t take another fifteen years to get to 60 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly fifteen years ago, I started participating in a step tracking program through work that &#8220;\u201cencourages you to track your steps and help you to focus on your fitness in a simple and accessible way.&#8221;\u00a0 That program, utilizing the GlobalFit tracker, ran through February of 2015, where I finished more than three and a half [&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":[8844,5199,732,551],"class_list":["post-24175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","tag-corona-virus","tag-fitbit","tag-globalfit","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175","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=24175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24239,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175\/revisions\/24239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}