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Three solid days of rain and I won’t be meeting my steps goal this month — but I’ve already met my strength-training goal, so I’ll consider that a worthy effort for the holiday week.

• 1110 of 1200 minutes
• 20 of 24 days with 8000 steps or more
• 8 of 8 strength-training sessions

Since it’s so near New Year’s Eve, I thought I’d take a look at my monthly logs and see how often I met my goals.

January’s goal was 1200 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions — met.
February’s goal was 1200 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
March’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
April’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
May’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
June’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
July’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
August’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
September’s goal was 1300 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 21 days of 8k steps — met.
October’s goal was 880 minutes with 6 strength-training sessions and 17 days of 8K steps — met only the 17 days one.
November’s goal was 1200 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 24 days of 8K steps — met.
December’s goal was 1200 minutes with 8 strength-training sessions and 24 days of 8K steps — I’ll likely fall one day shy of the 24 days, but meet the other two.

Cool! I hadn’t realized that I did that well. I also didn’t realize that I lost 100 minutes but gained 3 days of 8000 steps in my goal-setting somewhere. I may want to take that into account as I’m setting goals in 2016.

One of the things I’m most pleased about is that I had a streak of daily exercise from January 9 until I left on my Cuba trip in October. And, that I re-started a streak of daily exercise on November 1. I’m hoping to keep that going until we travel again, probably in the fall.

How was your exercise for the week and the year? Share on your blog and link your post below. Or tell your story in the comments. Be sure to visit the other participants for support and encouragement.