Walk this Way

Since the beginning of October my department at work has had a walking challenge. We all had to set goals to walk a certain number of steps each day. My goal was to walk 500,000 steps from October 1st until the end of the year.

Well we are halfway through the challenge and I have walked a whopping 343,197. The US health department recommends that you walk 10,000 steps a day which feels like a long way but I have done it a few times and it really isn't that far. To measure our steps we were each provided with a pedometer, but no one warned me that it was a speaking pedometer. It tells you when you have walked a 1,000 steps and unless you switch it off it will keep talking to you, which certainly scared me and the bloke next to me in the toilets!

I am not really getting any fitter, but at least I am no longer putting on weight, and I have had to have my wedding ring resized, as it kept falling off. Being the sad man that I am I keep a spreadsheet of everyone's progress and then I run reports, and draw up graphs showing how everyone is doing.