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Virtually Walking Across America in One Year – REACHED!
6Dec2008 Filed under: Fitness, Middle-Aged Man, Walking Author: douglaspaulwadeIt started in January, when Tracy Whittaker and I were walking at lunch. We thought it was possible with the amount of steps we walk each day, we could sum them up to the entire distance across America. I did some calculations and its seemed like a doable goal. That would be about 16,000 steps a day. So, on January 21st we started at Santa Monica Pier. Each day we would count our steps with our pedometer and report them in www.walkertacker.com. You can see my progress at their site, walkertracker.com/douglas. On November 30th, right before I went on a business trip, I reached the shores at Jacksonville, Florida. Below is the some data and the map of the journey.
- Total Miles 2,458.4
- Total Steps: 5,024,726
- goal: 16,000 goal of steps a day 15,801 actual steps average
- Tags: America, Middle-Aged Man, Walking
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December 6th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Congrats Doug, You have reached the other shore!
A while ago you wrote on your blog “I want to share my successes but not when I am not wanting to do the workouts. I been working a lot and the last thing I want do is workout.”
You cannot keep running at your peak (limit) with these 5K timed runs if 1. Your heart is not in it 2. You are not training for running.
Getting injured represents playing in the street. Your walking represents playing in the backyard. You have to start playing in the front yard (running/walking) more often to know how close you are getting to the street and avoid being run over by a car.