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Recovering from Graduate School includes reversing the sedentary lifestyle.  After a couple years of working during the day at a “sit at the computer and type, type, type” style job following by evenings of “sit at the computer and type, type, type”, it can be hard to get back into a more active lifestyle.

This weekend I picked up a pedometer to help chart my progress away from the desk chair.  It seems very accurate, and very disappointing.  It works fine; I seem to be the problem.  Using the somewhat trendy “10,000 steps a day” principle as a guide, I found myself at about 2,000 steps half way through the work day.  At that rate I’ll need to circle the office three times in an imitation of a person with obsessive compulsive disorder any time I think about going to the printer or walking over to ask someone a question just to get close to the 5 miles 10,000 steps will roughly equal.

A quick Google search shows that the advocates of 10,000 steps also advocate starting with a week of normal behavior just to lay down a baseline.  Then they suggest trying to increase your daily average by 500 steps each week until you get to averaging 10,000 steps a day.

If the afternoon goes like the morning did, I’ll add another 2K.  If I can persuade the new puppy at our house to go for a walk (she’s young and still very shy about leaving the yard- a good trait in a suburban dog, bad for me tacking miles on the pedometer) that’d be another easy 2K.  But then I’d still be 4K short.  I thought finding supporting documentation for a research paper was hard; finding a way to burn a couple extra miles of shoe leather each day will be an entirely different kind of challenge.

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