Time to restart my weekly updates prior to hiking the PCT! I have 99 days until my permit date, so let’s start right now!!
I plan to update daily on Sunday (numbers run Sunday to Saturday), so I’ll update with those totals.
First off, I bought a new FitBit recently – the Charge 5. I love the unit, except for one major downgrade – it no longer has an altimeter in it, so it doesn’t measure floors (flights) any longer! Otherwise – great display, great ergonomics. But the downgrade in measuring fitness goals is a big disappointment.
Over the past 8 months, since Chester the dog got sick, my fitness goals have absolutely languished. I gained a lot of weight. My resting heartrate skyrocketed. My daily steps plummeted.
I am going to post some of the numbers (averages) from the last few months, just to try to track some changes over the last while…
| Daily Averages in: | Steps | Heartrate | Calories |
| June | 8976 | 51 | 2929 |
| July | 8900 | 51 | 2897 |
| August | 7473 | 52 | 2747 |
| September | 6186 | 53 | 2644 |
| October | 7597 | 54 | 2745 |
| November | 9612 | 53 | 2876 |
| December | 9867 | 55 | 2849 |
So none of that is great. However, I’ve recently begun stepping it up a bit. Here’s this past week’s numbers:
Stats for 9 January – 15 January, 2023
- Steps: 105134 (avg 15019) up 20% from last week
- Calories burned: 22438 (avg 3205) up 6% from last week
- Average resting heart rate: 54.6 (up from 53.7 the week before)