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I’ll be doing a slightly-silly personal challenge that I made up: walk 7,777,777 steps, write 777,777 words, do 77,777 jumping jacks, 7,777 press-ups, eat 777 different types of fruit, achieve target weight of 77kg, and run 7 10K races.

https://medium.com/@7sevens/the-seven-sevens-challenge-c7b7d...

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Heheh good one. I thought my plan to walk at least 10,000 steps a day for 365 days was quite a challenge. I can't help thinking that eating 777 types of fruit might be the biggest challenge there though! I've travelled pretty widely and am a great fruit lover, but would be surprised if I've eaten more than 100 types of fruit!

Yeah, thats a lot of steps. Assuming 1,000 steps = 1/2 mile, thats 3,888 miles for the year, which is totally doable, but a lot easier if you're into distance running.

Those steps do add up. So far this year I'm over target. The challenge will be keeping it going when I head to Philippines soon, I usually switch to swimming there - do laps count?! {grin} Good luck for 2018!

That'e excellent resolution because it has specific and measurable goals. Everything that says like "eat less junk food" is going to be ignored 1 week later. I like 777 types of fruit, gonna steal this one :-)

Are there 777 types of fruit (at least edible ones you have access to)?

I think yes, if you choose your definition of fruit. I chose it to mean any amount of any part of the fruit, in the botanical sense.

I wrote more here: https://medium.com/@7sevens/1st-january-2018-fruit-and-runni...

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You should join the Ministry of Silly Walks ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

I like this one.

7M steps! That's quite challenging, that's an average of 20K steps a day... Even the 7x10K races would only make up for ~90K steps...

I did one of the races today, and it counted for about 12,000 steps. I did exceed my step target for the day, but it wasn't easy.

Do subvarieties of apples count?

If that doesn't count I'm gonna have trouble finding that many type of fruit in my area...

I'm counting species, not varieties. I wrote more here: https://medium.com/@7sevens/1st-january-2018-fruit-and-runni...

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