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2023 – Year In Review

Welcome back to #TravelThursday, and the final part of my 3-week look-back at 2023. Last week it was all about my driving. This week it’s all about my walking.

I got a surprise Apple Watch for #ThanksChristmasGiving2022, and so December 2022 was my first full month of wearing it almost 24/7. That month I averaged 4,530 steps per day – or 2.27 miles per day. As it turns out I averaged more miles per day in all 12 months of 2023. My 2 “low” months were in the dead of summer in July and August when I averaged 2.38 and 2.34 miles per day respectively. My 2 “high” months were in January and May when I averaged 3.19 and 3.10 miles per day respectively.

My new neighborhood near Sebring Florida is very “walk-friendly”. Since I moved in last March I’ve walked around my neighborhood 70 times for a total of 92.79 miles. That’s an average of 1.33 miles per walk. (A complete walk around the circumference of my neighborhood is 1.15 miles.)

For all of 2023 I took a little over 1.94 million steps – or 995.64 miles. That’s an average of 2.73 miles per day over the course of the 365 days.

I know for sure that I’ll be walking a whole lot more in 2024. I’d like to walk 100 times around my neighborhood. I’d also like to get my average miles per day up to at least 2.85. If I can do that – then 2024 could be over 1,040 miles.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about DeSoto County Florida. Let’s keep traveling together.

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By Chris M. Day

I'm 58 years old. I've been online for 32 years - starting with my own dial-up bulletin board system in 1993 - and continuing with AOL, my own dot.com web site, Myspace, WordPress, Twitter / X, Flickr, and Facebook.