January 2016 Monthly Challenge!

January 1, 2016 ~ With a brand new year comes a set of brand new challenges! Since I have signed up for a couple of yearly challenges I needed something to keep my focus and keep plugging along. I love the monthly fitness challenges from Full Medal Runs and you choose the amount of miles (between 50-200 miles per month) and complete them at your pace during the month.... which means you can run or walk then you will receive the medal shown up above! (The medal is simply a motivator to keep me focused) Since I will be doing my best to motivate my mom and sister this year (along with some other friends) I choose to walk at least 50 miles for the month of January! Here's proof that I stuck to my goal! Ready..... Set..... Go!

January 1, 2016

"Celebration Run 5k"

3.11 miles

January 2, 2016

2.50 miles

January 3, 2016

1.00 mile

January 4, 2016

3.11 miles

January 5, 2016

3.20 miles

January 6, 2016
3.25 miles

January 7, 2016
5.25 miles

January 8, 2016
3.11 miles

January 9, 2016
4.8 miles
(My mother-in-law's brother-in-law passed away and we had to move his whole home back to Missouri from Illinois so she could get it ready to sell.)

January 10, 2016
2.27 miles

January 11, 2016
3.10 miles

January 12, 2016
2.50 miles

January 13, 2016
2.50 miles

January 14, 2016
2.00 miles

January 15, 2016
1.00 mile

January 16, 2016
4.57 miles

January 17, 2016
1.01 miles

January 18, 2016
1.27 miles

January 19, 2016
1.00 mile

January 20, 2016
2.68 miles

January 21, 2016
3.10 miles

January 22, 2016
3.30 miles

January 23, 2016
4.00 miles

January 24, 2016
1.00 mile

January 25, 2016
1.80 miles

January 26, 2016
2.20 miles

January 27, 2016
1.20 miles

January 27, 2016
3.10 miles

January 28, 2016
2.20 miles

January 29, 2016
3.10 miles

January 30, 2016
1.00 mile

January 31, 2016
1.00 mile

Total of  77.13 miles for January 2016! 
(27.13 miles above my 50 mile goal... Sa-weet!)

I also want to see how close I can get to the 2,016 miles by adding up my total daily Fitbit miles. So each day I have wrote down how many total miles I get in the course of a day and write it at the top of each day in my Day Planner.... For the month of January my total Fitbit miles are 151.03 miles! (Now I realize that you don't count total Fitbit miles and just the miles you actually make time to walk/jog/run. Not too shabby since you would need 168 miles per month to complete the 2,016 mile yearly challenge! I'm telling you... having a Fitbit and thinking about the walking/jogging/running that you do when you think about exercise will increase your distance for sure! Now let's see what we can do in February for our monthly challenge!

What are you waiting for? Get out there, set some goals and crush them!