Unexpected benefits.

A few months before I started the foot experiment, I decided that I want to have excellent posture for my wedding. And since the wedding is not for over a year, I thought that the best place to start would be to get myself a ball chair, since it would force me to sit up straight and strengthen my core. Well, that went well for about a week, but then I found myself avoiding my iMac because it hurt to sit on the ball chair. Fast forward to today. I've proudly and triumphantly been sitting on the ball chair for well over an hour! Apparently running really does work your core muscles. This whole "having a stronger body" thing is making me want to, you know, actually work out really regularly. I don't know what's happened to me, but I hope it sticks.

Today J and I were so motivated by the beautiful weather that we decided to take an impromptu walk. We went to the park where I was eagerly looking forward to pacing out my walks and runs so that I could have a better idea of how far I'm actually running each time we go out. When we got to what I thought was a football field, I quickly realized that it was not in fact a football field. It was a rugby field! I walked from one end to the other with J and logged 123 steps on my pedometer. Then I turned around and ran the same length at a normal running pace. Strangely I got the same number of steps (not sure if that is good or not?) and I ran the length of the field in 36.25 seconds.

What is strange about all of this, is that it doesn't seem physiologically possible for my step count to be that low. The length of the rugby field is 144m, which is about 472ish feet. This would put my stride for one step at 3.84 feet... which is definitely not right. The time works out to be a running speed of about 8.9 mph... not sure if that is freakish or correct either. I'm going to have to do some more calibration of the pedometer to see how accurate it is, and continue to salivate over the Garmin Forerunner 305... Perhaps when I can run a little bit farther, I will reward myself with that. I can't wait until the day that J and I can walk to the park, run through the whole thing, and then walk home.