April Winners and Personal Bests!

To all of you who submitted your personal bests in April as part of the Montana Moves COTM, we say CONGRATS! We had some really great entries which we’ll share a sampling of now. Here’s what you guys and girls got done in April that was better than your best:

• Many of you who wear Fitbits or other pedometers had personal bests for steps in a single day. Well done!
• Many of you used exercise frequency as a criteria, working out a record number of times for the month. I think this is an excellent thing to be aware of and track, because I think consistency is the key to fitness.
• Some of you used events as a personal best, such as running more 5k’s in one month than ever before.
• 1 unassisted chin-up (female).  Well done!
• 217 Pull-ups during the month (female).  Amazing!
• Running 2 miles without stopping.
• Eight Push-ups (began exercising last fall).
• Longest (duration) swim.
• Fastest morning run.
• 7:03 Mile (female in her 40s). Awesome! Sub-7 is next!
• 115 lb. Bench Press for 2 reps (P.B. in this person’s 40s)
• Roller Skating! Most laps in 5 minutes.
• 15 miles walked in 24-hour period.  Excellent!
• Cristin’s Submission:  Completed first ever Triathlon (Grizzly Tri).
• Neal’s Submission:  No P.B. in Boston Marathon for time, but a personal best for steps that day—47,717!

Nice job everyone!  Keep finding ways to be at your best all summer!  Now, on to our prize winners:

• Tracy Boehm of Missoula won the prize drawing for Montana Moves. She’ll be receiving a camp hammock, which she can use to relax after setting her personal best 5k this April as part of a relay team at the Grizzly Triathlon. It was also Tracy’s first time participating as part of a Tri.
• Chairsty Stewart of Billings won the prize drawing for Montana Meals. She’ll be receiving a slow cooker for her participation in the Meal Planning April Challenge.

Congratulations ladies!  Speaking of Montana Meals, here is a little feedback we received from our April Meal Planning Challenge participants:

• “I like this form for planning meals—it was easy to fill out.  I hate having to stop at the store because I need one or two things so this form helped me to better plan for needed ingredients.”  —D.H., Billings
• “This worksheet was a nice change.  And I didn’t forget half of my grocery list while at the store!” —H.K., Missoula
• “This has been very helpful ~ the part that really helped was looking at the calendar to see what kind of time I had to fix the meal.” —J.D., Missoula

Make sure you check out our May Challenges.  Have a great weekend Montana!

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