1. 10,000 steps. Yesterday I worked at home. When I looked at my Apple Watch at the end of my work day, it told me I had walked just over 1,300 steps that day. I think I put my watch on around 10 am, and I finished working at 4 pm. That’s six hours, so I walked about 216 steps/hour. That’s not much. The wellness program at work gives me points that turn into currency to get gift cards and fitness devices and such when I get 10,000 steps in a day. While I was on vacation, getting 10,000 steps was a fairly common occurrence. Since I’ve been home, not so many steps each day.
Because I like to break things down so I know what I’m dealing with, I decided I wanted to know how many steps I would have to take in an hour to reach 10K steps in, say 12 hours. That number worked out to just over 800 steps/hour. It would take about 714 steps/hour to get to 10K in 14 hours. Today, I decided to see what that would be like.
My sister has a Fitbit that alerts her every hour to get moving to reach her goals. The Apple Watch may have a similar feature, but I don’t know where it is, so I set a timer every hour to remind myself to check the step count and reach my goal.
My time frame is 7am to 9pm. The first five hours, I was right on track. Then I had to spend about an hour in the car going back and forth from work to home to take T to work. That hour I didn’t get many steps at all, and so by 2:00, I was about 1,000 steps behind. Right now, it is 8:30, and I have almost 7,900 steps. I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
Work’s wellness program also gives me points if I meet a certain level of active calories burned. I’m happy to say that even though I don’t have 10K steps today, I did reach the active calorie level, so I’ll still get my 10 points today. YAY!
2. Walking the dog. Speaking of walking…you know I walk my dogs in the neighborhood every evening. We pass by the same houses, hear the same barking dogs, admire the same trees, flowers, and yards daily. It’s a simple neighborhood walk, right?
In Rome, there are lots and lots of people who walk their dogs. Usually the dogs are a lot smaller and much more well-behaved than my beasties, but that’s another topic. The day we were at the Colosseum, I noticed a man walking his dog on the Colosseum grounds - not inside the gates, of course, but there is a large area around the Colosseum, Constantine’s Arch, Palatine Hill, and the Forum that is open space for anyone to enjoy. The gentleman and the dog were in this ancient space, minding their own business as they went for a simple neighborhood walk. What a neighborhood, though, right?
3. A photo. I did not take a photo of the man walking his dog, but here is a photo of Constantine’s Arch that I took from inside the Colosseum. The grassy parts you see are not for walking on because they are full of ancient ruins. As you can imagine, Rome is full of ancient Roman ruins. Anyway, you can see the sidewalks, full of people, and that’s where I saw the man and his dog.
Fun fact: the Colosseum had already been in use for over 200 years before that arch was built. The arch was constructed in three years, between 312 - 315 AD.
It boggles my mind.
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