11/18/2005 -- Meandering along Route 2

As I meander, I'd like to reflect on my dad, who inspired this trip. He inspired it on at least 2 levels. The first is that he recently lost a lot of weight by walking (and, of course, eating right, which I pretty much can't seem to do). Impressed and desirous of shedding 10 pounds, I sought to follow suit. Being a quantitative sort of fellow, I went out and bought a pedometer to track my walking. More on that in a minute.

Once I started to track my steps, I remembered that my dad had done something similar some time back. Using AAA maps, he had plotted a walk, maybe to Florida, and counted his miles. I used Mapquest, which is pretty much the same thing and had a lot of fun plotting my route (I'm actually still plotting some of the details).

I really think that the pedometer has increased the amount of walking that I do (in real life, that is). Whenever you get measured by some metric, you tend to increase it. When salesfolk are measured purely on volume, sales increase, even sales of products that are unprofitable. Oops. So I am measuring myself on total steps and I seem to be walking more. Cool. I'll wait until I see some results...

11,400 steps today. Cheers,