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I’m proud to say that I am taking fitness nerdery to new heights with this one.

So you know how they say you should aim to walk 10,000 steps per day? Well, I bought a pedometer many months ago and have been religiously wearing it pretty much every day since. While I routinely do hit the 10,000 mark, I wasn’t making it all the time, and my motivation to do so was waning a bit. So I concocted a challenge for myself: One Million Steps in One Hundred Days.

The idea is simple, of course – 10,000 steps per day X 100 days = 1,000,000 steps, but I made up a couple of rules for myself so that I wouldn’t “cheat”. I take the pedometer off whenever I’m doing a cardio workout – running, elliptical, biking, aerobics, etc. I leave it on if one of those activities is in addition to that day’s workout (usually when I’m dancing around the loft late at night). I also leave it on during strength training workouts, to encourage myself to walk between sets rather than just sit there.

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Some days I log far fewer than 10,000 steps, so I have to make up for it on subsequent days. Sometimes, I have a run of three or four really good days and “bank” a few thousand steps for future low days. Many nights, I find myself 1,000 or so steps short, so I walk laps around the inside of my loft. The pets are used to it by now and they ignore me. Hubby asks me what I’m looking for.

Today is day 82. I have 814,532 steps right now. So if I accumulate another 5,500 steps between now and midnight tonight, I’ll be on pace to make my goal.

I’ll keep you posted and try to get a photo of the pedometer at 999,999 (it resets to 0 at 1,000,000 so I can’t show you the big moment). I know you are excited, but you’ll have to wait another 18 days.

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