Mission accomplished: in 2024 I set myself the 10K-a-day goal and now, on 1 January 2025, I can proudly say that I achieved it. As a matter of fact, my Garmin Vivoactive (still alive and kicking after 3 years) claims that I walked, on average, 10328 steps every day, from 1 January to 31 December 2024. By the way, 10K steps roughly equal 8,5 Km (more, if you run). It was not easy, as I went through days when walking and running was not possible, due to travelling, working, harsh weather, sickness. However, I tried to walk every day even during those days when the conditions were not favourable. Some days I walked less than 10K, and this means that I had to catch up the following days, by walking some extra steps. My sub-goal was to reach at least 300K or 310K monthly steps, according to the days of each month (except for February, that had 29 days in 2024). Concerning the benefits, I registered the following positive effects on my mind & body:
- my body weight was pretty constant throughout the whole year, with very few variation (+/- 2 kg);
- when I came back from my daily walk, I usually had some great ideas for my job (new concepts for activities, catchy titles for projects, interesting topics to be explored);
- my mood generally improved, even if the positive effect on mood was stronger when I ran more than 5 km.
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