Nailed it.

First off, credit to Marty for bringing this to my attention. But next Thursday, April 24 is the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch.

I did it! A solid week of closing all three of my Apple Watch rings as retribution for missing a minute of standing up last weekend!

Yes, I’m punishing myself for that Stand ring miss on Sunday. How?

DAMMIT! DAMMIT!! DAMMIT!!!

One thing I’ve noticed that kinda bugs me about my Apple Watch and the measurement of standing as one of the three Rings used to gauge activity is that I don’t necessarily trust how standing is measured.

I just realized something… with my Fitbit dead and me moving over to Apple Watch, using steps for tracking my monthly fitness goal isn’t really as logical.

I was going to go for a bike ride yesterday. I really was.

It might be time to never burn another calorie again… or my soul may burn in eternal damnation. Check it…

And now I know why my Fitbit/iPhone sync isn’t working… Google is killing off the physical Fitbit devices in favor of supporting their own Pixel watches.

It may be time to retire the old Fitbit.

As noted in my April goals recap, I went to the gym to workout every weekday that month.

While my step count goal is gonna look like 💩 at my end-of-the-month check in, that will be offset by one great thing… so far this month, I’ve been to the gym every weekday morning.

I actually went back to the gym today.

For the first time since maybe a week before Thanksgiving.

Katie and I started back at the gym yesterday. We both had some time to burn in the morning so we spent it burning our muscles.

I received an email from the Overlords du FitBit (read: Google) announcing that some changes are coming to our beloved platform.

Wow. When Fitbit says you can only change your profile name once every 60 days, they meant it. I only today was finally able to change the name on my Fitbit account back to Kevin from Nathan.

Do you remember that post about early morning walks and sunrises? Sometimes, even when it's dreary, it's still beautiful...

Early morning walks are the best. Few people. Little to no traffic. No construction sounds. And views like this.

For the last several weeks, I’ve been making it a point to go out nearly daily for walks or bike rides.

Remember me saying I was likely going to pay for that 4.5 mile walk I took yesterday? Well, it didn't happen right away, but it did happen. The pain reared its ugly head after I took a second 4.5 mile walk in as many days.

I went for a 4.5 mile walk this morning. Got up early and just headed out with an audiobook pumping in my ear. 

Apparently, for this draft post I re-discovered, I had written the Totally Unrelated Aside (TUA) before I wrote the actual post. How would I have had any idea how (un)related they were going to be if I never wrote the main post? I'm weird.

Considering how long it’s been since I’ve been regularly exercising, I like that I’ve done a lot of improvement on my daily steps. I reported back in September that I hit multiple goal 9 out of 10 and 12 out of 15 days.

I’ve actually really been trying this past week or so to get my steps up and hit my step goal as much as humanly possible. I need to work it in and make sure it becomes habitual like it used to be. 

I feel like I’m writing announcements like this every year, but, yet again, another Fitbit has bitten the dust. 

This was my view earlier this morning. 

This past Monday, I finally started doing something that I’ve known for a while needed to begin again. I started going for early morning walks with the intent of transitioning slowly into running. 

Woo hoo! Check me out! My first weekday step goal attainment since Friday, August 11!

As much as I used to dominate in step challenges in the past, this has not been the case so much lately. Despite rolling back my daily step goal by 2,000 steps, I'm not even making that regularly.

And when you're in Chicago all day walking everywhere, you wind up doing this...

I love Fitbit. I really do. Actually, I need to qualify that statement a bit...

I went for a run yesterday for the first time since my 5K in February. Well, I should qualify that claim a bit. I went for a walk that had three spontaneous run-like outbursts scattered throughout.

I discovered a feature in the Fitbit app recently that I had never paid attention to previously... their activity tracker.

Fitness and healthy eating are some things that have been eluding me of late.