Welcome
to Base Camp Elevation: 17,700 feet – this is over 3,000 feet
higher than the tallest mountain in the contiguous US, Mt. Whitney in
California.
Everest
Fact: Everest was formed more than 60 million years ago and gains
about two inches of elevation each year. At 29,035 feet, the mountain is higher
than 21 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other!
Health
Fact: Americans are chronically sleep deprived. Prior to World War I,
adults averaged nine hours of sleep per night. According to a 2008 National
Sleep Foundation poll, adults report an average of six hours and 40 minutes of
sleep per weeknight.
Begin your journey
well rested. The National Institutes of Health recommends that adults need seven
to eight hours of sleep each night.
Importance
of Sleep: Think of your daily activities. Which activity is so important you
should devote one-third of your time to doing it? Sleeping. Research shows that
your body performs a number of vital tasks that helps you stay healthy and
function at your best while you sleep. During sleep, your brain is hard at work
forming the pathways necessary for learning and creating memories and new
insights. Without enough sleep, you can’t focus and pay attention or respond
quickly. Growing evidence shows that a chronic lack of sleep increases your
risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and infections.
Quality of sleep is
just as important as quantity. Insufficient quality sleep can be attributed to
multiple factors including: insomnia, stress, social pressures, desire to get
more work accomplished, night-TV viewing and Internet use.
Well….Week One of the Mt. Everest Challenge was a
success!
Monday: 4,690 steps and 2.22 miles
Tuesday: 9,822 steps and 4.65 miles
Wednesday: 2,275 steps and 1.08 miles
Thursday: 18,765 steps and 8.88 miles
Friday: 7,777 steps and 3.68 miles
Saturday: 5,568 steps and 2.64 miles
Sunday: 13,563 steps and 6.42 miles
Weekly
One Total: 62,460 steps and 29.57 miles
Mt.
Everest Challenge Total: 62,460 of 250,000 steps
Last week Thrive Idaho's focus was on quality of
sleep. My quality of sleep was pretty
poor due to a family situation that arose towards the end of last week. I had to re-adjust to a little less sleep and
also not being able to follow through with my activity plan. I found other ways to get in steps and my
first week was successful!
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