Plan Your Walking

I’m not talking about yesterday.  Suffice it to say, I had to bake a birthday cake and brownies for my youngest’s 6th birthday today and the temptation was too much.  We’ll call it a bad day and move on…

My co-worker sent me a link yesterday to Gmap Pedometer  a cool little mashup where you can set a route in your neighborhood or park or wherever you walk and get not only the mileage but if you input your weight you can get a calories-used estimate as well as an elevation map.

I find it motivating to learn that when I walk my little neighborhood route, I’m burning around 140 calories! And, keeping in mind that if I go faster I can burn more calories in less time, I can use this baseline to push myself a little harder when I’m out.