Total for Saturday

11492 steps. I earned every one of 'em.

Total for Friday

0 steps. I forgot to wear my pedometer. Doh!

I estimate that my total was probably similiar to thursday.

Total for Thursday

5527 steps. Lame. I even took a decent walk this evening, but it didn't make up for the total lack of activity the rest of the day.

I didn't drive my own car to work today, and consequently, I didn't park in my usual spot. That's a 1000 extra steps right there that I didn't get take.

Pokemon Pikachu 2

Pokemon Pikachu 2: "The electronic pet features a built-in meter that tallies the amount the owner travels. The more steps the owner takes, the better the relationship becomes between Piakchu and its owner. "

Total for Wednesday

7389 steps.

Amish anachronisms

The University of Tennessee, gave pedometers to 98 of these Amish adults and found that the men averaged 18,000 steps per day, the women 14,000—about nine miles and seven miles, respectively. The Amish men averaged 10 hours a week of vigorous activities like shoveling or tossing bales of hay (women, 3.5 hours) and 43 hours of moderate exertion like gardening or doing laundry (women, 39 hours).

"The Amish are not freaks," says professor of anthropology Daniel Lieberman, a skeletal biologist. "They are just anachronisms.

from: The Way We Eat Now

manpo-kei

The nickname for a pedometer in Japan is 'manpo-kei', which actually means 10,000 steps.

Total for Tuesday

6007 steps.

I'm begining to get a sense of how increasing my step totals is going to take some premeditated effort. 10000 steps a day isn't going to just happen on it's own. It won't take much effort, but it will take an effort.

Total for Monday

3373 steps. A disapointing total. Too busy to take my usual lunchtime walk.

Somehow my pedometer has already developed a crack in the plastic case.

Total for Sunday

6322 steps.