Wallowing in admiration

[susandennis]

I track my fitness using an app called Misfit. Because millenials are in charge, the app, besides tracking, has a way for you to add 'friends'. A while back this random guy posted on Redit that he wanted Misfit friends. So I told him to add susandennis if he wanted. He did. Of the 16 friends on my Misfit list, he's the only one who sometimes - not often, but sometimes gets more points in a day than I do.

Yesterday we had a small but ohsowonderful little message exchange (I'm in green below)...

pianoplayer44Misfit!
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[–]from pianoplayer44 sent

20 hours ago

Hello susandennis!

I added you on the Misfit app and you are always beating me! (I'm MatthewJohn95 on there!). How the heck do you do it??? You're a beast, always above 1500 points! Ah! Tell me your secret!

-Cheers

[–]to pianoplayer44 sent

20 hours ago

OMG this cracks me up so much!! The secret is swimming. I swim 1.3 miles every day. It does wonders for my Misfit points.

I have seen you top me here and there and it just makes me swim faster. So thank you! Probably it would be mean to tell you that I'm 67 years old , so I won't. :)

[–]from pianoplayer44 sent

4 hours ago

Bah! That's amazing! I'm 21 and that just gives me some motivation to make sure I at the VERY LEAST hit my 1200 point goal everyday! No excuses. I literally talk about you to all my friends...I'm just so obsessed with trying to catch up! You're a wonderful motivation!

[–]to pianoplayer44 sent

an hour ago

Ok so now you have totally made my day. Week, actually.

Sadly for you, my goal is to make sure you never top me again!!

I grew up before Title 9. I was taught that women should really not ever sweat. Plus, I'm naturally a lazy couch potato. I manged to avoid physical education class most of my life. In college we were required to take 2 semesters. For my two, I took bowling and golf. I am a lot of things but athletic is not even close to being one of them and I am 100 pounds overweight.

So this little exchange is even more than delightful and is being recorded here for posterity!

Comments

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

Love it :)

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

It's good to have someone to beat, even better when they have a youth advantage and you still beat them.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

Bahahaha! I would save it too. That's awesome.

[zippybeta.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you are his hero!

[hawk-soaring.livejournal.com]

Go you. That's awesome. :)

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I walk 7-9 miles a day, how do you get more points than I do? I think I added you back but I'm not really sure how to view/compare friends.

I left my Misfit at home today, so I scored a big zero.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Also, I love this story!

[susandennis]

Yep, you are on my list (so I am on yours). You should have a tab in the Misfit app that says "Social". That's where you'll find me. Misfit assigns different points for different activities. So, for instance, if you ran 7-9 miles, you'd get more points than you would for walking 7-9 miles. And,swimming also counts more than walking.

Of course, you silly rabbit, not wearing your Misfit is just silly!

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Honestly, it depends on what jeans I wear. Some of them have small pockets so I leave it at home. And some days I just forget completely!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

This is a great story!

My sisters and one of my nieces keep track of each other's running and cycling on Strava.com (we all use Garmin GPS watches) but they are all both younger and faster than I am. Still, it's fun to keep up with what they are doing as they are in Australia and I'm in the US.

[susandennis]

That is very very cool - especially since they are so far away.

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

Ha! Just yesterday I was in the pool at the gym when and being *very* impressed at how much swimming you do per day. It was admittedly after an hour of cardio, but I could only just about swim for 20 minutes and I was d-e-d dead. So count me as another booster.

[susandennis]

Ha and thank you but I could never live past an hour of cardio to even get into the pool so you win.