For years my doctor has been telling me that I should walk a 10,000 steps in a day a few times a week. He even suggested that I should get a pedometer to keep track. I never got one, mainly because I thought that through my work as an event photographer there are many days that I already walked that far and for one particular event I didn’t really want to know how far I walked during that day.
That event is the Chestertown Tea Party. The Annual Chestertown Tea Party is during Memorial Day weekend and for the past several years I have been one of their principle photographers, as well as being part of the planning committee.
Recently I got a new phone. One that has a Health app that keeps track of my walking/running activities.
Since I have gotten it, I have covered and walked a couple of those events that I suspected I walked over 10,000 steps. To my amazement so far I have yet to reach it. The nearest I came was 9000 and that was with a combined photowalk and covering an event.
The few events I have covered since getting the new phone has been around 6,000 steps with a daily average of 2500.
Will Tea Party reach that 10,000 steps? A goal that once was considered easily reach, but now looks as it is much harder to reach than I thought. I’ll let you know.