Hey Wrangler, good to see you sticking it out even in the heat. You have my sympathies, it seems to make it all uphill both ways..
nycfem, curious about you having been anti-fit bit; why against it instead of just a non-user?
Gemme, I think a kazoo is just right and a lot of the rest of it is window dressing and fad. I use an iwatch for my step tracking, but that’s not what I bought it for, it’s a side effect I’m having fun with. The reason that I got it was that I am on call 24/7 and was just tired of having to have my phone with me at all times. When the iwatch4 came out with phone and text capabilities, it was tempting but some of the other things actually made it worth it for me. My father got afib when he was 52, I am now 58. Thinking of having it spot something like that on me does not replace a doctor but it does replace what I’m doing currently for that which is nothing. This also has fall detection in it, which I know works from the two times I’ve set it off by banging my wrist hard against something. Over the last four years my mother has had three serious falls and two years ago I had a pretty bad one myself. (Yes, I tripped over a garden hose in my own stupid driveway at night and landed on my head; saw stars for 3 days) I realize this is a pretty serious problem for people that don’t have anyone around to find them.
I didn’t start using the health tracking features until four months ago when I moved to my new location. Now I’m having some fun with it as a toy and posting my stats in here helps with accountability. With that in mind, here are my numbers for yesterday and today:
Wednesday I had 20,537 steps for 8.2 miles This included almost the full length of my Beachwalk.
Today I had 6602 steps for 1245 miles.
I may have had some help on that mileage with the three airports that I passed through today.
I won’t be getting much of any activity for the next four days as I will be spending time with my mother who turns 88 tomorrow morning. We will go walk her parks and other haunts but she tires easily, is quite frail, and has a stride of I think about 6 inches. She is sweet and game to go for it though…