When I started wearing the FitBit I was kind of happy that I was hitting between 2500 and 3000 steps a day. Considering what I was probably doing early (too scary to think about) I was positivly a walking demon.
Then I talked to my doctor. She wanted me to increase my steps by 500 a week until I hit 10,000 steps. Was she nuts? I mean, seriously, how do I fit that many steps into my day? I was busy. I had meals to eat, television shows to watch, reports to write, etc. I just didn't have the time to add 500 steps per week.
Or so I thought.
I discovered that walking from my house to the end of the "neighbourhood" and return (yes, I needed to get back to the house) was a 2K walk. So I started walking. Considering that this was probably the longest trek that I had been on in years, surpassing the uninterrupted walking that I did at DisneyWorld. I did it. I was in pain. My shins hurt and I was panting like a dog in heat. It was not a pretty site. I did this a few times and hurt every time. I wasn't panting as much but I was successful. That was when I bought the new walking shoes. (See previous entry)
I've added the walking at work. I've changed my lunch pattern to walk to Grant Macewan at lunch time (2.2 K) and a 2K neighbourhood walk at night. My internal target was to do 7000 steps a day, an increase of 4000 steps per day in 4 weeks (1000 per week instead of 500). One day I was a little short. I was only at 2200 steps and it was late at night. I went to Plan B: the 3.5K neighbourhood walk.
5000 steps later and I felt pretty good. In fact, my min/km was actually lower than a normal 2K walk. I was enjoying this. I liked walking. Wow.
My average daily steps are now 8300 steps, up from 2750 only four short weeks ago. An average of 10,000 steps is not out of the realm of possibility within the next few weeks. I am stoked to hit it.
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