WORKING To Get In My Steps

I've made getting in some daily movement a priority starting last spring. I made it a point to start getting in a lot of steps starting last spring sort of as "training" for a lot of walking in Italy. And I swear that it's helped me! My foot has been less sore now that I'm making it a point to move more. Yes, I always felt like I've gotten plenty of movement from my normal training, but the truth is (or I guess "the truth WAS") that I would go for an early morning run, and then often sit on my butt grading projects the rest of the day. Working to get in 10K steps helps me get off my butt a few times a day to actually move.

Five out of the last 6 weeks I've been over 125K steps:

The big spike 2 weeks ago was walking a lot in Jamaica.
That was under 1000 steps off from my 164,047 weekly PR from Italy.

I really had to work to get over 125,000 steps last week, as last week had no long run. It only had 2 shorter runs. One of the reasons for the spike in Jamaica was that I started and ended that week with a long run... so then the following week (last week) had NO long run. I had to end my week with days of 20,000 and 18,000 steps (both non-running days) to hit 125k+ for the week. Charlie and I got in a 2-3 mile walk on Sunday to help get me there.

What really shows that I've been making walking/steps more of a priority is that last week. Twice in the last year I had long runs a day early that then showed up on the week prior, leaving the following week extra short. And both of those times in the past, I had TINY weeks... my smallest 2 weeks this past year were weeks that had no long run:

About 82K and 85K on those 2 weeks with a day-early long run.
But last week, I worked to hit 125K steps without a long run.

I'm hoping to FINALLY have my "year in review" post shortly, and working on my steps is one of my more major points for 2023. I sincerely believe that it helped me stay more injury-free and more pain-free.