Thanks, Peter. If I'm doing anything like your numbers in my 81st year, I'll be amazed.
Unless we're away from home, then all of my walks are in the local hills if I'm with the dog, or the local roads (flatter and faster) if I'm just on my own. 7000 steps/hour with the dog; 8000 without him.
Yes, an extra 1800 steps a day adds a bit, but then that's only 15 additional minutes each day. I've thought about the figures, and the main obstacle is time. We're just now increasing from minimum daylight, two weeks or so after the winter solstice, so I'll be able to increase the afternoon walks a little to make up the quantities as the days get longer. I'll try to get ahead of the average I need in order to bring it down. That's always worked in the past, as the conditions improve steadily from now for the next six months, and stay good until around the end of September. I hope to have broken the back of it by then.
As I've observed before, it's hard to know how anything like this compares with the rest of the world - there must be a whole load of people walking huge distances but not counting steps!
