{"id":323,"date":"2014-08-10T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T05:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2014-08-10T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T05:13:18","slug":"10000-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So for the month of July, I set a goal for myself to walk 10,000 steps. I didn’t think it’d be as hard as it was! If anything, it has shown me what a sedentary lifestyle I live.<\/p>\n

Some days I reached 10k steps with no problem. Usually on long run days. Other days, I would realize it was 8 or 9pm and that I’d only walked about 2,000-3,000 steps. Those were frustrating. I’d throw on shoes and walk around my neighborhood, or laps around my kitchen\/ living room area.<\/p>\n

I know my goal annoyed some. I was constantly pacing and trying to get extra steps in. One weekend, I went down to Portland to visit family, and as I was driving home I saw that I was only at 5,000 steps and that I wouldn’t be home til after midnight. I pulled off the highway and walked around a Walmart for 5,000 steps. I was dedicated!<\/p>\n

Needing steps was great at work because if I was working with kids I was guaranteed to get my steps in, and if I was at the front desk I’d volunteer to do odd jobs around the gym to get more steps. July 31st came and I’d reached my goal. It felt good. I didn’t realize how sedentary I was even on short run days. I could go out and run 3, 4, 5 miles and not hit, or barely hit my goal for the day. Now it’s August and I don’t miss the stress of cramming steps in before bed (there indeed was a night I turned off my lights and got in bed, only to realized I had about 1,100 more steps to go), but the goal was fun. I’ll have to think of a new goal soon. In the meantime, I challenge people to walk a number of steps and see how sedentary they are!<\/p>\n

By the way- that day I had nearly 43,000 steps was the day I ran the Rock n Roll Chicago half marathon and went sight seeing after. So many steps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So for the month of July, I set a goal for myself to walk 10,000 steps. I didn’t think it’d be as hard as it was! If anything, it has shown me what a sedentary lifestyle I live. Some days I reached 10k steps with no problem. Usually on long run days. Other days, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,206],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fitness","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}