An Extra 1000 Steps
Sep. 24th, 2007 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI thought up a new strategy for walking more. Whenever I'm having one of those days where I'm sitting around the house all day, I should try to remember to get up and go walk around the block every hour or two.
Not my block, the block across the street from me.*
I measured that block yesterday and it's about 500 steps. It has only ten houses on it, five on each side. So then I decided it would be better to go around that block twice for each break. So far this strategy has allowed me to end with 2200 steps on Sunday rather than 1200 steps. Oops, still nothing to write home about. That's partly because I forgot about my strategy until 11:40 pm and partly because I was mostly sitting around someone else's house yesterday.
There's another bigger block I could try, also not mine, across from where my street ends in a T, which has many more then ten houses on it plus a church.
* I'm not even sure how I would walk around my block. I live on a street that looks like it's going to be a cul de sac, but when you get to the end of it, you can turn right twice, going around a U to get back to the road you started on. At that point, if I turn right and come back to my house, I've gone around that 500-step block.
Let's say I go out the door and turn right (south). When I get to the next street I would turn right (west). That road curves back south. So at the next street I would turn right (west again). That street is straight, so at the next right I'm going north. Then I stay on that road the equivalent of three blocks (because those other streets don't go through) before my next right turn (east). Then another right turn (south) takes me to a t-intersection because that street doesn't go through. So I'd turn left (east), then right (south), then right (west). The next street I get to is parallel to mine. I could turn right and walk around the U or just keep going until I get to my street.
Not my block, the block across the street from me.*
I measured that block yesterday and it's about 500 steps. It has only ten houses on it, five on each side. So then I decided it would be better to go around that block twice for each break. So far this strategy has allowed me to end with 2200 steps on Sunday rather than 1200 steps. Oops, still nothing to write home about. That's partly because I forgot about my strategy until 11:40 pm and partly because I was mostly sitting around someone else's house yesterday.
There's another bigger block I could try, also not mine, across from where my street ends in a T, which has many more then ten houses on it plus a church.
* I'm not even sure how I would walk around my block. I live on a street that looks like it's going to be a cul de sac, but when you get to the end of it, you can turn right twice, going around a U to get back to the road you started on. At that point, if I turn right and come back to my house, I've gone around that 500-step block.
Let's say I go out the door and turn right (south). When I get to the next street I would turn right (west). That road curves back south. So at the next street I would turn right (west again). That street is straight, so at the next right I'm going north. Then I stay on that road the equivalent of three blocks (because those other streets don't go through) before my next right turn (east). Then another right turn (south) takes me to a t-intersection because that street doesn't go through. So I'd turn left (east), then right (south), then right (west). The next street I get to is parallel to mine. I could turn right and walk around the U or just keep going until I get to my street.
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on 2007-09-25 02:18 pm (UTC)Hey, if you'd gone on a walk around the block at the other-people's-house on Sunday, I think you'd have gotten a good amount of steps in; I think their 'block' is bigger than yours :)
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on 2007-09-26 03:00 am (UTC)I don't even know how big the block from Sunday is because I only know the inside of it.
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on 2007-09-26 04:34 am (UTC)