Walking in June
Jun. 1st, 2006 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThere's a 'fitness challenge' at work this month, trying to get people to be more active. The goal: walk 25 miles in 30 days. Er, yeah. Not a particular challenge, given my usual walking patterns. Still, it's worth signing a waiver and entering; there will be a prize drawing for those who complete it.
Interestingly, the brochure about this not only includes ways of estimating distance based on time, but some 'exercise equivalents' of walking a mile:
1 mile jogging, 0.25 miles swimming, 4 miles bicycling, 2 miles of in-line/ice skating, 15 minutes of basketball or soccer or hockey, 20 minutes of aerobics, 15 minutes of step aerobics, 15 minutes of racquetball or handball or squash, or 20 minutes of singles tennis.
It feels off: I know that half of my bike ride the other night was far more exercise than walking a mile. On a stationary, perhaps. Any kind of running is much harder than walking, so running a mile would be noticeably difficult. And since I haven't been swimming in... a very long time, that would be a lot more work, too. Still, it's interesting to see what someone thinks of as equivalent.
Interestingly, the brochure about this not only includes ways of estimating distance based on time, but some 'exercise equivalents' of walking a mile:
1 mile jogging, 0.25 miles swimming, 4 miles bicycling, 2 miles of in-line/ice skating, 15 minutes of basketball or soccer or hockey, 20 minutes of aerobics, 15 minutes of step aerobics, 15 minutes of racquetball or handball or squash, or 20 minutes of singles tennis.
It feels off: I know that half of my bike ride the other night was far more exercise than walking a mile. On a stationary, perhaps. Any kind of running is much harder than walking, so running a mile would be noticeably difficult. And since I haven't been swimming in... a very long time, that would be a lot more work, too. Still, it's interesting to see what someone thinks of as equivalent.