A Year in Calgary: Walking Edition
A year ago today, I moved to Calgary. So what better way to celebrate than to give you all my walking stats for the past year?
Total mileage: 2,162.6 (that’s approximately equal to the distance from Seattle to Atlanta)
Average miles per day: 7.33
Total steps: 4,548,608
Average steps per day: 15,419.01
Average speed: 3.83 MPH
Here’s a graph of my mileage per month.
December, January, and February are low because of CANADIAN WINTER (which actually wasn’t too bad, but still); May and June were low because of our road trip and moving to the condo. April is highest because I was switching to my new shoes on May 1st and I was trying to pack as many miles onto the old shoes as I could.
Here’s a graph of my mileage per week day over the course of the year.
I was surprised Monday was highest; I would have guessed Thursday or Saturday. Though I guess my weekly walking pattern changed once I met Nate. It’ll be interesting to see what next year’s graphs look like! Hopefully I can beat the 2,162.6 miles.
I AM ROOMBA HERE ME ROAR
I’m to the point with my walking where any walk shorter than 8 or 9 miles feels like absolutely nothing and, if that’s all the distance I go in a day, it feels like I’m slacking off and not walking enough.
Which is a pretty stupid thing to think, since before we moved to the new place I was walking about 7 miles a day (four times a week at least) going to/from campus. Now I’m going 10+ about four days a week, plus at least 5 or so the remaining 3 days of the week. So I’m obviously not walking less, but it really feels like I am. It’s like this:
- 15+ miles: Good walk!
- 12 – 15 miles: Decent walk!
- 9 – 12: Yeah, sure, okay.
- 8 – 9: At least you moved a little. Sort of.
- < 7: GO DIE IN A CORNER YOU LAZY CRAP
I’m sure my mind will return to realistically looking at mileage once next semester starts up and I’m actually busy (especially with thesis stuff), but right now, this is how it is.
At least I’m putting good mileage on these shoes!
In This Blog: Claudia Ruins Another Pair of Shoes
In news that is likely quite shocking: 1,450 miles of walking will murder a pair of shoes.
I’ve had my Kinvara 5’s since September 8, 2014. Since then, I’ve walked 1,450 miles in them while up here in Calgary. Have some walking stats!
Total distance: 1,450.28 miles (2,334 kilometers)
Total steps: 3,062,328 steps
Total time: 370 hours (15.41 days)
Most mileage in a single day: 22.9 miles (April 29)
Least (non-zero) mileage in a single day: 0.37 miles (April 11) (We just walked from Nate’s place to the new condo and back)
Boxplots!
1,450 miles is approximately the distance from Vancouver, BC to Winnipeg, MB. Or, if you want to go north-south, it’s approximately the distance from Milwaukee, WI to Miami, FL.
Pretty snazzy.
So unless I die or something, I’m pretty sure I’ll hit 1,500 miles by the end of the year (which was my goal). If I can get to 2,000, I’d be super happy.
WOO! My Kinvara 5’s can now retire. It’s time for the new ones to earn their stay.
The Proclaimers, where are you?
500 walking miles since January! That’s approximately the distance between Moscow and Calgary.
If I keep this pace, I’ll hit 2,000 miles by the end of the year.
Have some chill music to celebrate.
i’m in ur country, walkin ur cities
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEY, guess who hit 1,000 miles on her pair of shoes?
*points at self*
Nate and I went on a very nice 11-mile walk this afternoon (which included getting poutine and candy), which put me above 1,000 miles on my shoes. Check them out!
So that’s 1,000 miles since I moved to Calgary, which was September 1st of last year (though I guess I didn’t wear those shoes until the 8th, but whatevs). I’m going to try to get to 1,500 miles on them before I break down and get a new pair (mainly because I want to wait until the Kinvara 6’s come out), but no promises. The heels, as you can see, are really starting to wear through.
Here are some stats:
Miles: 1,029.41
Time: 265 hours, 44 minutes, 43 seconds (that’s like 11 days)
Steps: 2,173,614
Woo!
ALSO: we watched Guardians of the Galaxy last night, so now I’m all caught up for Age of Ultron in May. I’d have to say my three favorite movies were, in order, The Avengers, Thor, and Iron Man 3. Thor: The Dark World had the best soundtrack, though.
ALSO ALSO: rainbow sprinkle pretzels. Is there a better candy to represent me? I think not.
Walk the Walk: Canadian Style
Heeeeeeeey, so I don’t know why I waited like a week for this, but what the hell, have some walking statistics for my time in Calgary so far!
Total distance: 680.00 miles [Not sure how I managed to hit that exactly. It wasn’t planned.]
Total number of walks: 93
Average distance per walk: 7.31 miles
Did I meet my average of 50 miles per week? No. I blame finals. But that’s okay, considering that last year it took me eight months to go 1,000 miles and this year it took me only about 3.5 months to walk nearly 700 miles. I bumped up the pace quite a bit, I’d say.
Want some line graphs? You know you do.
October was a good month.
Stay tuned for a later blog post in which I set my yearly mileage goal for 2015!
500 Miles!
Hey foolios!
After my walk today, I’ve officially walked 500 (well, 501) miles around Calgary!
STATS TIME!
- Number of walks: 65
- Average distance per walk: 7.71 miles
- Shortest walk; longest walk: 1.39 miles; 17.03 miles
- Average per week: 50.1 miles
Boxplot time! Here are miles by the days of the week (the red line is the average 7.71 miles).
WOO!
Also, have some perspective:
Here is a map showing the distance between a random location on the east side of Moscow and Walmart, which is on the extreme west side of Moscow. Most would agree that this distance, 3 miles, is pretty much “across town.”
Here’s the same distance in Calgary.
Just to give you an idea of how dramatically different the areas of the two cities are (that’s not even all of Calgary north-south-wise; it wouldn’t all fit at that zoom).
Walk the Walk
So I’ve been here a month now* and I’ve walked 231.4 miles around the city (488,593 steps).
Plot of walks over the last 30 days!
I think my goal shall be at least 50 miles per week. Not sure how that will go, especially once I get busier at school (and once the temperature dives), but we’ll see.
YAY BIG CITIES!
*I’m not counting the first week, from September 1st to the 7th. That week sucked and I’m treating it as if it never happened. So there.
2/3 of the way there!
I hit 1,000 walking miles (1,609.34 km) for the year today.
For comparison:
There are approximately 1,000 miles between Portland, OR and San Diego, CA.
There are approximately 1,609 km between Paris, France and Naples, Italy.
Which is all cool, except all that was done within the city limits of Moscow (except for one walk to Pullman). I have to get to a bigger city, man.
OH YEAH, and this happened yesterday on my mom’s car:
I want spaghetti.
500 miles this year!
Graph (might have to click to enlarge):
Note: some of those actually occurred on the same day, so the daily totals are actually usually higher than 9 miles on the weekends.
I know it’s not a LOT of miles, but it’s pretty good considering that I spend about 14 of my waking hours on campus doing schoolwork.
So my realistic goal for the year is a total of 1,500 miles; my (probably) unattainable goal is 2,000.
We’ll see how it goes down this summer.
And I’ve been putting my walking-related posts under the “health” category, but I think I’ll start putting them under “travel.” Because really.
Oh, also: I’m addicted to Minecraft now. Or at least I’m getting there. I’ll have more time to be addicted once the semester’s over (NOTHING COMES BETWEEN ME AND MY SCHOOLWORK, NOTHING!).
I’ll be your eigenvector if you’ll be my eigenvalue
MUSIC STATS!
Graph of genres
Mean song length: 4:00
No five-stars this month.
WALKING STATS!
Total number of walks: 85
Total mileage: 673.1
Total steps taken: 1,348,433
Total calories burned: 37,535
Correlations!
month miles calories steps month 1.00000000 -0.02778855 -0.07326894 0.03896221 miles -0.02778855 1.00000000 0.98203163 0.99229965 calories -0.07326894 0.98203163 1.00000000 0.95563610 steps 0.03896221 0.99229965 0.95563610 1.00000000
Graph!
Tune in tomorrow for mega music review!
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