I am back! I know it is a few days later than I thought, but I DID do things the next day; I was not able to take the time to write it down at that time though. L Since I have a tendency to let certain things marinate in my thoughts longer than necessary I created this post to help keep me motivated and accountable; even if it is just to cyberspace and my one viewer J.
A few days ago (seriously, it was the day after I began this blog...Thursday and today is Sunday so it wasn't long ago), I decided that the best way to track exercise was to track my walking, even around the house. To aid in this endeavor, I found my pedometer (purchased 6+ months ago, still NEW and UNUSED in its box) and clipped it on. How do you determine how far you walk? Well, it required a bit of research and math on my part but I found out for anyone that would like to know. You first determine your height in inches, determine your stride in inches (height x .413 [female] or .415 [male] = stride in inches), and then take 63,360 (inches in a mile)/stride = steps per mile. I am 5’6” which is 66 inches tall – 66 inches x .413 = 27 inch stride, 63,360/27=2347 steps per mile.
Take the math one-step (pun intendedJ) further by dividing your steps for the day by your steps per mile to determine how many miles you walked (15550/2347=6.6 miles). On this particular day, the little guy was at daycare, allowing me to take a fast and hilly walk; by the end of the day, I managed to track over 15,550 steps, according to the math that made for a 6.6 mile day! The next day I strapped that lovely pedometer on and tracked 12,828 steps, without a purposeful walk, logging a little under 5.5 miles. DEFINITELY liking this pedometer thing, it helps a procrastinator like me to feel very accomplished with little thought through effort; SCORE! Of course wearing the pedometer did make me conscious of my movements and brought out a bit of competition with myself in the sense that I wanted to see how far I could walk in a day. A procrastinator is NOT necessarily lazy; we merely just do not wish to do it RIGHT NOW. J
