walking
One of the things I love most about living in a city is the walking. We walk everywhere, and it seems nothing is closer than at least a 15 minutes walk.
In fact, we haven't driven since we've been here.
I decided to find out exactly how much we walk, so I hunted down a pedometor. The guy at the store said I was the first male to purchase one in a long time.
Anyways, I've been counting the last week, and I've been averaging roughly 4-6000 steps. The average steps/mile is roughly 2000:1.
Kate and I are walking 2-4 miles/day, which for most is a good thing. On the day of our anniversary, we put in 6800 steps......I've never really done this before.
Kind of curious if anyone else has.
In fact, we haven't driven since we've been here.
I decided to find out exactly how much we walk, so I hunted down a pedometor. The guy at the store said I was the first male to purchase one in a long time.
Anyways, I've been counting the last week, and I've been averaging roughly 4-6000 steps. The average steps/mile is roughly 2000:1.
Kate and I are walking 2-4 miles/day, which for most is a good thing. On the day of our anniversary, we put in 6800 steps......I've never really done this before.
Kind of curious if anyone else has.
posted by dcschmiddy at 8:59 AM
5 Comments:
Great story...keep on walkin.
You are a huge nerd.
Paul
Paul, thanks for the words of encouragment. You're right though. Haven't you ever been the least bit curious how much you walk in a given day?
I have always marked my mileage by the MILE markers on the Prarie Path. However, I have given two pedometers to mom who has never used them, so this may be new inspirtation for her to do so. Rocky and Sherry Grams (Argentina Missions) recently bought them and gush all the time about their mileage. Interesting fact: you have to walk the length of a football field to burn the calories from ONE M & M, 215 football field lengths for a big Mac . . . "so walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain though your dreams be tossed and torn, walk on walk on" (an old song you young bucks probably don't know).
I wonder how many steps it takes to walk off a box of mac-n-cheese? :)
I'm not sure how many steps/day I avg, but I think it's about 6001...Joel
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