{"id":6414,"date":"2004-09-07T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/07\/walking-the-walk.html"},"modified":"2004-09-07T15:08:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:08:30","slug":"walking_the_wal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/07\/walking_the_wal.html","title":{"rendered":"Walking the walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pedometer.jpg\"As we were walking on the course on Sunday, I noticed that Doyce had a pedometer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wore one of those for a month or so, as I got started on my diet. I think I eventually stopped wearing it because I had a sense of how many steps I was taking a day, but the number fluctuated a lot, and eventually I knew how many calories I was burning from walking, and that was that.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, Jackie got it for me for our anniversary<\/a>. It’s letting me keep track of my Five Hundred Miles to Nowhere.”<\/p>\n

I’ll be damned.<\/p>\n

It makes perfect sense. <\/p>\n

Marn started it<\/a>, at least for me, complete with its own project site<\/a>, but it was something I associated solely with, well, you know … exercise. Like, “I did a mile and a half on the jogging machine at the gym.” Or, “I ran a couple miles around the track this morning.” Like, Real, Scientific, Measured Movement of the sort that Ahnold (or Marn) would Officially Recognize (and even award a rubber ducky for).<\/p>\n

But a pedometer — ah, it’s fiendishly clever! And, being someone who has no time, something I can do. Because I do walk. A lot. And I can measure it, with that same pedometer. I walk here. I walk there. I walk my feet off everywhere. As Dr Seuss might say.<\/p>\n

I can walk five hundred miles. And I can walk five hundred more. Just to be the man who … uh, I digress<\/a>. Though havering with Margie sounds fun.<\/p>\n

At any rate, if all I need to do is just, y’know, walk (as opposed to Use Expensive Gym Equipment, or Jog on Cushy Blue Foamy Track Material), then, damn, I’m there<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s late to shoot for 500 miles this year. But yesterday was the 250th day of the year<\/a>. I started wearing a pedometer yesterday (too late to harvest the golf games, but in time for the corn maze), meaning that as of yesterday, we have 366 – 250 = 116 days left (32%) in 2004. 500\/366 = 1.37 miles\/day * 116 = 160 miles (rounding up) to walk.<\/p>\n

I can do that. It will earn me at least three rubber duckies. \"ducky.png\" And that’s nothing to quack at.<\/p>\n

(And, lest I get smug, Marn<\/a> is currently at 660 miles out of her thousand mile goal. And Doyce<\/a> is at 406 out of 500. So I have a lot of catching up to do … Though, according to the pedometer, I’ve clocked 6.5 miles already.)<\/p>\n

I’ll let you know how it goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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