Steps

 I managed to download my step counter data from Samsung Health but it was in a pretty poor state to easily manipulate and make sense of.  I'm sure it all makes sense to proper developers but I didn't have the time or inclination to sort it out.  In the end I went old school and typed out the data.

I'm not that fussed about daily data, more interested in trends so just copied out the monthly data for steps and distance going back to September 2016.  That must be when I first started using Samsungs.

Any way here are the highlights...

Here's average daily steps per month.  Below is the same but with each year split by month.

I've been really upping my game this year.  It coincides with me being consistently the lightest i've been for 10+ years.  If I walk the dog and take Flo to school in the morning i've already done 12k steps before work.  I've then got to pick up Flo or Arthur in the evening which is another 3k minimum.  If April's in town and getting back late / staying over i've got to do a second dog walk and pick up another child.

Weekends are low as we struggle taking the dog out as much as we'd like as it's tough sometimes juggling two kids at the same time but once they're a bit older and easier to manage things will improve.

Interesting stats

Last year I stepped  4.6m times

Mid way through May i've already done more than a million steps more than at the same point last year.

Last year I recorded 3,490 km

I'm currently averaging 12.9km per day in 2022, it was 6.2km in 2016

It's like they're reading my mind...

Or my search history.

This is what google thinks i'm interested in as part of their targeted advertisement algorithm.

Cats: Yes.
Rock Music: Yes.
Vehicle Shopping: Perhaps, but only once every 3-4 years.

Weight Loss

I bought a fancy set of bathroom scales back in January so that I could track my weight loss.

So far I have lost 14 grams! (Average weight in January compared to February). April's lost just over half a kilo.

I can't really complain, i've been to the gym twice this month and played rugby 3 times. Not the ideal regieme for weight loss. March will be better. My aim is to get below 14 stone before June but if I go by my current rate of loss i'll be below 14 stone by April 2042 and by that time April would be -22 stone I've got some work to do...

Blog Tracking

Here's some lovely charts showing my blog activity over the last few months. It'll probably pass 2000 visits today.

Google Analytics

I've been using Google analytics for just over a month now, for those not in the know it's a website traffic counter / analyser. I decided to add the code to my blog to see how popular (or unpopular) it is. Here are the results for the first month.

754 page views, 419 total visits, and 115 unique visitors.

I'm not sure how accurate the location is (e.g. there are no Tonbridge hits despite April and I both going to it) but I find it quite interesting all the same.