{"id":9026,"date":"2023-03-11T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2023-03-11T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:43:47","slug":"garmins-auto-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/garmins-auto-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin&#8217;s Auto Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Garmin allows you to select the number of steps you want to take in a single day, or let it be set automatically. For a year or two I allowed the goal to set. The result is a step goal that fluctuated from 12,000 steps per day to 15,000 steps or more. This was fine, because I ignored it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago I decided to set it to a fixed ten thousand steps a day. Many will say that the 10,000 steps per day doesn&#8217;t matter, and I agree. I took 21,000 steps today so I overshot the mark by a little. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I run every two days or so, and I walk for an hour and a half or more each day. Although I do this sometimes I undershoot the goal by a few hundred steps and the streak is lost. The streak, too, doesn&#8217;t matter, because it is meaningless. What I find interesting is the number of steps taken in a year. Once it was five and a half million. Now it is currently about 4.3 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These numbers too, don&#8217;t matter. If you run, or if you cycle you&#8217;re either making more effort, or your steps are not counted. In both cases the step count tells one story but other metrics tell another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I read about how you can increase your Vo2 max up to a certain point, and after that it doesn&#8217;t increase. What does change is your resistance to fatigue. You go from being able to run for 2 kilometres to being able to run for 2.3 kilometres, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I walked for two hours in drizzle. I passed by two Camino stamp opportunities and collected them in a booklet that is not designed for this use. I collected them as a curiousity, and to give this walk a different purpose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Garmin allows you to select the number of steps you want to take in a single day, or let it be set automatically. For a year or two I allowed the goal to set. The result is a step goal that fluctuated from 12,000 steps per day to 15,000 steps or more. 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