By : Sally Valentine

January 01 2011

11,000 in 2011

Happy New Year and welcome to my blog.

I’ve never been big on New Year’s resolutions. For teachers, the new year always starts in September anyway. But this year I’ve given myself a challenge. I got a pedometer (thanks, Dave) and am committing myself to walking 11,000 steps a day, 6 days a week for all of 2011. Even God rested on the 7th day, so I’ll be taking Sundays off.

6 x 11,000 = 66,000  steps a week.

66,000 x 52 + 11,000 = 3,443,000 steps a year.                    Whew! that’s a lot of steps.

If you’re wondering why I added the extra 11,000 it’s because    52 x 7 = 364. I need one more day to make 365 days. Can you tell that I’m a former math teacher?

So I started this blog to make myself accountable for all those steps. I’m hoping to do a lot of this stepping in various places in and around Rochester and posting pictures along the way.

You all are invited to join me on this journey, or better yet, to start a journey of your own.

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