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November 2022 Activity Challenge
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Had to close the exercise ring 21 times last month, now 25 times this month.
So I'm off a day.
I got the November Challenge, and it says 'Earn this award by going at least 6.1 km a day 14 times this month.'
What is 'going'? I did 31.15km biking, so it can't be that. Walking? Running? Crawling? I called Apple Support, and they said to post feedback, and it might mean walking, but it has to be faster than 3.3mph. 🤷🏻♂️
31.15 ain't it...
The is the weirdest challenge I think I have ever had!
I got the November Challenge, and it says 'Earn this award by going at least 6.1 km a day 14 times this month.'
What is 'going'? I did 31.15km biking, so it can't be that. Walking? Running? Crawling? I called Apple Support, and they said to post feedback, and it might mean walking, but it has to be faster than 3.3mph. 🤷🏻♂️
31.15 ain't it...
The is the weirdest challenge I think I have ever had!
I think it sometimes says that. Or maybe it changed with WatchOS9. I’ve had several distance challenges. My award for September says: You earned this award by going 382,2 km in September 2022. On the first of September the challenge on my watch was: Walk or run 381,9 km this month. On my phone my October challenge was (screenshot on October 1st): Earn this award by going at least 12,3 km a day 14 times this month. On the same day I made a screenshot of my challenge on my watch. That said: Recently you’ve averaged 12,3 km of walking and running per day. Go that far 14 times this month.
So that is how I know. Btw: there is more that counts towards your distance goal than just running and walking. I do a lot of dancing and that counts, too.
mmm I wonder if forgetting to stop the activity when finnished counts as cheating
But that's past tense. It's like 'went'. You already did that. To say 'You need to go to Topeka', wouldn't you have some questions? So to say you need to 'go' 6.1 km in a fitness app with lots of options for 'going', it would be nice if they specified the 'way' you go... I've had Challenges that had OPTIONS, where they listed 2 or more ways of 'going'.
But I did an experiment last night. I walked on the treadmill to see if it gave me a day. So 3.3 mph is a lot faster than it seems. And doing it for over 40 minutes was a challenge for sure. I did get a day off the challenge. I don't know if I can do this one this month. My poor joints... 🤕
Mine is to double my activity goal 14 times this month. Doable.
Maybe you need to partake of some joints to help your poor joints?
Apart from my wife, I DID inhale when I was younger. She told me that if I ever started that up, we were over. Who knows what ganja does to the mind long term. Plus there are still so many beers, ales, stouts, meads, etc that I haven't had yet. It was funny, 20+ years ago, when we had neighbors, their kids asked about getting high. their father said 'Ask Pinky! I'm sure he can fill you guys in!'. I was shocked, but started telling them about what I thought getting high was about when I was a kid. I said turn around really fast for a minute of so then stop, and empty your pockets. They dad laughed and wondered about the empty pockets. 'They don't give that stuff away for free! Not that I could have bought New York, but I sure could have afforded a few nice things if I didn't blow so much money on weed!' They laughed.
Then the conversation devolved into being gay, and I had nothing to impart and left. The dad told me a few days alter that they talked about it for a while after I left (the weed) and he said what I said might have sunk in. I finished the 'weed talk' with the story of the last time I got high. The weed had to be bad, infected, infested, who knows, but it smelt bad and I had a headache that lasted over a week. Others that were there said it was okay, but YUCK! Nope. Then I realized that I was smoking and breathing the smoke from something I had no idea where it came from, or if anything had been added to it. Yeah, BIG REALIZATION! Wow... That was the end of my 'druggie daze'...
But I know the lingo, the smell, the look. Once the wife asked 'What's that smell?'. Oh, some good s**t!
Doing recreational drugs just isn't worth it. Especially now. (Funny that the Fox News 'fentanyl Halloween Massacre' they played up to the orbit of Pluto was a bust. *shrug*)
Must have been a challenging one! 😂😂
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mmm I wonder if forgetting to stop the activity when finnished counts as cheating
How do you get 4 hours of exercise minutes a day? That seems unhealthy.
I still keep my original 20-30 min walking time average
Honestly i am thankful it was for four days as the weather over here has been super nasty at random.
Id rather get the challenge done and if the weather is good ill still go for my daily walk when possible of course.
At some point 'everything' is exercise. Getting my butt out of bed some mornings is such a struggle, I should get credit for that.
I am amazed how much 'exercise' I get while traveling. I'm in a plane, and fighting luggage and the marathon between terminal gates, and still get a surprising workout. 💪
I still keep my original 20-30 min walking time average
Honestly i am thankful it was for four days as the weather over here has been super nasty at random.
Id rather get the challenge done and if the weather is good ill still go for my daily walk when possible of course.
Yeah, I remember last year pushing off starting a Challenge, and finding out that I was almost out of time to get it. I had to work on it right up to nearly midnight that last frenzied day trying to get it. You never know what the future holds so get 'er done if you can. Like I've had challenges where I can't take a day off too. Get it done...
But the rings only give you credit when you are exceeding existing heart rate right? Do you just use the other tab a lot?
Yep exactly this!
For me personally as well I always have to deal with pain issues that just flair up at random for me and sometimes I can be bed ridden for up to 6 weeks at a time.
That’s why I’m so thankfully this months was 4 days to lock it in and the rest now is up to me if I want/can do it!
Oh, and yes. There are apparently levels of your heart rate that you have to exceed to get credit. I did a 90 minute ride early one morning and apparently due to my base heart rate being so low, and my ability to also recover quickly, only got credit for 79 minutes. Surprising, shocking, and trouncing people for being in good shape possibly?
6 weeks? Have you seen a specialist? Wow. But keep moving the meat, as much as you can.