Congratulations!

@LuisPedroCoelho thanks! towards the end I was running (walking?) on fumes and kinda just wanted to get over 450k after giving up in our 1v1. my natural baseline is probably ~12k steps per day so I'm impressed you're on track to crush 5m steps

@dlin007 It has certainly gotten easier throughout the year. Even a few months ago, I would feel tired after a 15k day

Now, it takes 20k for me to feel it the next day

I also picked up a couple of habits like taking some calls while walking outside that get me a bunch of steps in without having to take extra time off my schedule (and is probably just healthier overall than sitting behind my desk the whole day)

@LuisPedroCoelho yeah 15k did get pedestrian for me too, but there was some cumulative fatigue at the end. when i did a morning walk for ~30 mins i was almost always guaranteed to hit 18k steps easily but when i skipped it and had to make up a lot of steps in the evening it felt labored and hard. I had no specific goals, but I saw fairly significant mood/sleep/aerobic fitness benefits so I'll try to keep it up for a bit and see if that becomes my new normal.

it's beautiful 🥹

so much easier and enjoyable than I expected, and probably permanently raised my new baseline moving forward. thanks @traders for playing!

@dlin007 👿 well done 👿

@AlQuinn thanks for the mana, friendo 😈

@dlin007 Consider it a loan, for the next time YOU WILL FAIL 😉

@dlin007 GG

@AlQuinn lol, somehow given your track record I doubt that. but i would invest in your Al-Quinn-as-a-Service negative motivation startup

@dlin007 my toxic personality has some value, at least 😜

final update from me until the new month. as part of my agreement with @LuisPedroCoelho, next update will be sometime on 1st Dec when I will be resolving this market and our side bet

Garmin connect for web is down but i did a bunch of steps. ~10k yesterday because of bad weather, ~18k suprisingly easy steps today despite some bad weather and the net effect is I'm 61k steps away with 5 days to go. Not enjoying this anymore now that all my doubters and skeptics have dried up :( (Hi @AlQuinn)

last minute wrinkle...weather not looking so hot for the next couple of days

@dlin007 this was a headfake to introduce some fake suspense...apologies. Bad weather cannot stop me

needed to really dig in for this last 3 days, partly because my routine broke down and I was having to do too many steps all at once, and partly because of cumulative fatigue. regardless, the result is i'm 91k steps shy of 450k with 7 days to go. i will almost certainly hit the goal so my new focus is closing the gap in my 1:1 with @LuisPedroCoelho and stacking a couple of 20k step days back to back

3 more solid days averaging ~16k steps. With 10 days to go I need to average roughly 14k steps to hit my goal. Feeling pretty confident

Posting the head-to-head market here as well, where it's very close rn (~4k steps difference)

middling last few days, but I limited the damage on the poor days, and did 21k steps today to make up for the accumulated deficit. I'm now 5k steps ahead of target with 13 days to go, and feel great again (again), and very confident. Focus next week is morning consistency and keeping it easy. Barring an act of God, I will easily hit 450k steps tbh. Your feeble NO bets mean nothing, once again.

wheels are coming off the bus...I had a stressful personal situation and only walked 10k steps total over the last 2 days. I've used up all my buffer so I'll have to start all over again, and risk falling behind if i don't get back on track soon

@dlin007 you going to fail and let someone as obnoxious as myself profit?

@AlQuinn the thought of your crusty old hater ass stealing my mana is powering me through moments of weakness so far sooo...thanks 😊?

deciding to break the chain by pre-emptively taking a rest day was the dumbest shit i came up with as i broke my momentum entirely and only did 20k steps these last two days. will try to get back on track today. might reduce the cadence of updates to once every four days

after 10 days, I'm at 181k steps, around 30k steps ahead of schedule. had a few shaky days that felt like a grind but i feel great again. will be taking full rest day tomorrow (max ~6k steps) to recharge and forestall any creeping burnout

Step markets are among my favorite

@snazzlePop i thought this was a pun at first, since this market is a stepped graph as well