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10,000 Steps A Day

7/10/2017

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I am not going to lie and tell you I have always thought counting your steps was a good idea. In fact quite the opposite was true. It seemed like a ridiculous marketing campaign to encourage non-athletic consumers to purchase athletic equipment. In reality, that may be the truth. Yet still I stand behind my opinion and say that this coordinated consumerism may have some validity to it.

A few months ago I started with a new organization and found out they had a step tracking program. I consider myself highly active so I figured this would be an easy way to boost my ego (just being honest). I have been nursing a IT band issue back to health  I signed up and downloaded Google Fit (they have all my other information, why not provide them with my body metrics also) to my phone and started tracking. I am a numbers person, I mean I struggle with math but I love to review the numbers I produce while participating in outdoor activities. I even wrote a post about my love for Strava a few years back. A week into starting the program I check in to see how high in the ranks I was. Hmmm. Not very high. I thought. So I set a modest 10,000 step a day goal and started checking more often. My steps began to increase and I started caring more about my performance. I am only shy about 150 steps from my goal. Fast forward and I am walking around the house brushing my teeth to ensure I get those steps. 

Now I am a competitive person, but even my wife who isn't has taken up to the counting. She was awarded a fitness tracker from her work program and has been at it ever since. I think there is value in the encouraging of people to be more active through the accountability of counting steps. I would be wrong to say that this will change the world in someway, but even if it encourages more awareness of one's fitness level; I believe there is some value in that.

Whether or not if you consider yourself athletic I think that it can be a positive influence. See if your work has a walking program (running steps, and other workouts may also be converted to walking steps) even if you don't need the motivation, you may help provide motivation to someone who does.
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Our Stages of Car Camping

6/12/2017

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Family camping trip from the 90's. This massive structure behind us housed us for the evening with two separate rooms and room for a portable toilet.
My first introduction to the outdoors were family "camping" trips. Load up the Honda Accord with a trunk full of camping gear and a car top carrier full of other shit and head for a campground. Four humans and a Beagle all crammed into that car, fully loaded. This maximum approach to camping was probably what fostered the outdoor flame I have today. During high school I picked up a book by Colin Fletcher about backpacking and started obsessing. I went to the far other extreme of the family trips by fitting everything I needed in backpack for a weekend. This worm hole led to Cuben Fiber tarps, Carbon Fiber Poles and way too much money spent saving a ounce.

The last few trips we have done have involved a healthy dose of car camping. After creating spreadsheets for backpacking gear weights, I have felt a little lost on how to car camp. My wife and I have together charted into these unfamiliar waters of the car camping world.

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Memorial day

5/29/2017

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Photo by Frankie
OUT ADVENTURING.
​BE BACK LATER.

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