A tip in measuring your walking distance…

I don’t know about you, but I can’t just go out and walk for 45 minutes. There has tangible goal. To me, time is not a tangible goal. Some use gadgetry to count steps. These may work wonderfully for you and that’s fine. But I need distance to measure goals. I can wrap my mind around walking one mile better than I can around walking for sixty minutes, or walking for 5000 steps. That’s why I decided to call it the 500 mile challenge and not the 400 hour challenge or the one million step challenge (although admittedly, that one sounds really cool.)

Some people drive to their local gym and walk, or head down to a nature path. If this is what you do and it works for you, wonderful! Some people don’t have that option, and others (like me) can’t get motivated to drive someplace to walk.

So here’s what I did; I used my car’s trip meter to map out a 1/2 mile square in the streets next to my house. This way, two laps equals a mile. If I get bored with this route, I’ll just use my car to create another route. It was a quick and easy way for measuring distance.

Try it out, it may just be the thing to keep you motivated on your quest towards 500 miles.