I’m going to keep posting here on Reddit until walking becomes a habit and a natural part of my daily routine. Today marks my third consecutive day of hitting 10,000 steps, and honestly, I’m already feeling fresher! I was diagnosed with PCOS nearly a year ago, and I have a long journey ahead of me. I want to lose around 30 kg, improve my mental health, feel better about myself, and get my grades back on track. I know this won’t happen overnight, but I’m trying to take things one day at a time and build healthier habits along the way. 💗
To all my fellow Redditors who are walking, working on their health, or going through a similar journey, I’d love to hear your stories! Please share your progress, tips, and words of encouragement to help keep me motivated. My goal is to stay consistent with 10,000 steps and eventually push myself to do even more. Here’s to showing up for ourselves, even on the difficult days. One step at a time! 🫶🏻

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Hey everyone,
Quick heads-up: I’m not advertising or affiliated with this app at all. I just recently found it and couldn't really find an active group to join.
The app is called StepUp and it’s basically a step counter app that lets you create groups, track steps, and do friendly step competitions/challenges together. I'm just looking for a few people who’d want to join a group with me so we can keep each other motivated and compete on daily step counts.
Drop a comment or send me a DM if you’re interested and I’ll send you the details/invite.

(Tell me you don’t have friends without telling me you don’t have friends:)

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

I’m a pretty active person, so I always thought walking was kind of boring. I preferred playing sports, going to the gym, etc. a while ago I started aiming for 20K steps a day, and honestly, it changed my relationship with walking. I started noticing how much of my city I had never actually explored.
Lately I’ve been doing something a little different: instead of taking the same walks around my neighborhood, I’ve been intentionally changing my routes and trying to discover different parts of the city.
I’ve started thinking of it almost like having a personal “class pass” for walking..every day I pick a different area, neighborhood, or destination and make a walk out of it.
It’s made walking way more interesting to me.
Does anyone else do this? Do you intentionally seek out new routes/neighborhoods to walk through, or do you mostly stick to the same routes?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1) What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2) How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3) What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4) Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5) Anything else to share with the group?

I was never much of a runner, even though I’m kinda built for it. Tall and lean, but running always made me feel like Big Bird stomping around. So I mostly stuck to lifting weights, walking, and other exercise.

A few weeks ago, during my daily walk, I noticed a kid around 12 or 13 yrs old running loops around the park by himself. He had a backpack/water thingy on, and by the third time he passed me, I was curious enough to ask what he was training for.

I hesitated because I’m in my 50s and didn’t want to create some weird stranger-danger situation. We were in a suburban park with other people around, but still. I mean, these days... but I asked him as he was coming up on another round.

Turns out he was training for a 10K that was gonna be in a nearby town. I gave him a thumbs-up and wished him luck, but I kept thinking about it as I walked home. Here was this young kid training alone, running lap after lap, instead of sitting at home playing video games.

At his age, I was definitely playing video games. I'm old, so we’re talking Pac-Man and Frogger, but still. I was mostly messing around with my friends. Training alone for a 10K would never have crossed my mind. What kind of drive does that take at 12 or 13?

Since I’m recently retired, I figured fuck it, I could do it too. It’ll take me longer to build up the cardio fitness, but I have the time. I decided right then to start doing at least a mile every day. At first, I walked faster. Then I started mixing in short stretches of jogging before going back to a fast walk.

I saw him just yesterday, gave him a nod and kept going. I didn't think he was gonna be out cause it was so freaking hot outside. but there he was. Just jogging and doing his thing. lol

Whenever I get tired, I think about that kid going out there by himself and putting in the work. If he can do it, I can do it too. Just a whole lot slower for me. lol