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My Idea of Walking Has Changed and Planning to Go for a Long Walk
There is more to walking than putting one foot in front of the other.
Over the past five years, I have been tracking my steps daily with a fitness tracker. An act that on the surface seems rather superfluous. There is one question that I have asked myself at times.
Is there any benefit that comes from tracking my steps?
When I consider this question though I know that there is one very good reason. The act of tracking your steps does in a way encourage you to walk more steps.
Between the years of 2015 and 2018, I walked a total of 24.4 million steps. It is impossible to know what the difference would have actually been. However, had I not been tracking my steps I suspect the actual steps could have been half that.
More Than Just Walking
Over the past four years though the one thing that I have not considered is walking in the bigger context. Thinking about the fact that walking at one time was a much greater part of our daily lives. In some cultures walking was a central part of who they were as a nomadic people.
