Pedometers

The other day in the mail came two pedometers from my mother. "Huh?" It seems she has caught the pedometer craze and wanted to make certain my wife and I had one. I didn't give it much thought.

Then came the e-mail. "Have you received your pedometer? What do you think?" I think you're calling me fat, Mom. No, I didn't really say that. But what the heck. Anyhow, I took one of the pedometers out of the package the other night and set it up. I am a tech guy and I couldn't figure out how to turn the silly thing off. It turns out there is no way to do so. So, it's not efficient that way. But I played with it some and began wearing it on Tuesday.

Each day my mother has e-mailed me to ask how many steps I have walked. It just so happens that the first two days were much more at the desk days than normal, so my steps were not particularly good. Today I didn't have the pedometer fastened to me in a very good place, so until about 10:30 this morning, it had registered but 269 steps. I did that walking for the morning paper. I re-positioned the thing and it began recording properly.

Everything I have read has indicated one needs to walk 10,000 steps per day, at a minimum. My wife wore hers today for the first time. She called me at lunch time and announced she was just about there. Those three-year olds keep her on the move!

I like data and wearing this thing provides me some information. I need to get moving.

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