Global Corporate Challenge 2011 - Step up the challenge!

[markis10]

Its a close race, especially as one of the mod team members has yet to log their steps!

 

[anat0l]

I'll take some blame for lagging the mod's team this weekend, which saw me practically in one room the whole time trying to madly finish some very last minute work (needless to say I'm also sleep deprived).

Hope to make it up during the weekday.

 

[turtlemichael]

Thanks to markis10 for lugging our two packs up to Cairns

 

[markis10]

Interesting fact picked up by Straitman, the Mod team went through Corroboree Billabong on the actual day that Ozfest was visiting that location :shock:.....what are the odds, although I think the crocs got one or two as we have a few missing counts......

 

[medhead]

Well slightly bemused. Walked about 2km at work to day, including wandering down to a holiday inn to checking - 5000 steps. Back in the hotel, I then did 2.2 km jog on the trend mill - 3000 steps.

 

[tuapekastar]

Well slightly bemused. Walked about 2km at work to day, including wandering down to a holiday inn to checking - 5000 steps. Back in the hotel, I then did 2.2 km jog on the trend mill - 3000 steps.

Interesting - I jumped on a gym treadmill tonight for the first time in years and came away thinking my step count maybe should have been higher for what I did. I'll have to delve a bit deeper, and take some comparative measurements over the next week or so as I'll be returning oft times to the gym (and continung some trekking outside of it).

 

[serfty]

Maybe the treadmill typically forces longer steps ...

 

[medhead]

Yeah, I guess the treadmill would tend to force longer steps. Might need to refine the speed setting a bit.

But it is disappointing that I then did another 1500 steps just wandering around the hotel room. Yes I was pacing a little bit

 

[turtlemichael]

GCC uses the figure of 1560 something steps to the kilometre. This is obviously some sort of average which takes into account different people's length of stride and the different sort of walking they do eg round the office, kitchen or pacing it out on a track. I know that when I walk on a marked track (along the Esplanade in Cairns) it takes me exactly 1230 steps per km. Therefore my kilometrage, and most other peoples if they do some serious walking, is probably understated. I asked them the question a couple of years ago and they said that the sytem was a compromise between averages, how people actually do their walking and what was simple and usable by all. Others have commented on the conversion rate of cycling distances and swimming distances to steps. I guess it must be impossible to come up with something that will suit everyone.

 

[medhead]

Thanks that's really informative. I never even considered the KM/steps conversion rate. Mainly mentioned distance as an indicator of step difference.

Maybe I'll try cycling tonight. Better on my knees then jogging anyway.

 

[anat0l]

Maybe I'll try cycling tonight. Better on my knees then jogging anyway.

I'm gonna try and take a really long walk today.

I know being snowed in with work kinda glues you to your desk, but so far I'm letting our team down and damn well not proud of it.

 

[markis10]

I'm gonna try and take a really long walk today.

I know being snowed in with work kinda glues you to your desk, but so far I'm letting our team down and damn well not proud of it.

I should have made you walk to the heritage centre on Saturday .

 

[anat0l]

I should have made you walk to the heritage centre on Saturday .

If you had an ASIC lying around somewhere I might've gotten away with it unless you mean the sadis_ route which is, of course, the route that we were driven on...... :shock:

 

[NM]

Well slightly bemused. Walked about 2km at work to day, including wandering down to a holiday inn to checking - 5000 steps. Back in the hotel, I then did 2.2 km jog on the trend mill - 3000 steps.

I find on the treadmill I walk at about 120 steps per 100m. When walking the street or around the home/office, its more like 150 steps per 100m. With nothing in front of me, I certainly stretch out the paces. But not quite to the level you describe :shock:

 

[anat0l]

Seeing as I was on the lower side of my daily average, team average and recommended daily target, I set out tonight for a long walk and slight jog.

Arriving back home my pedometer read 17,818 steps. Still got some way to go to increase my average, though.

Meanwhile, 1 team is absolutely tearing ahead. I think it has to do with a certain nimble ragamuffin. We should break his legs :mrgreen:

 

[Storyteller]

Too late to join??

 

[anat0l]

Too late to join??

Yeah, sorry. GCC has already started and we managed to fill our 3 teams on time.

However, if someone has to pull out unexpectedly before the GCC is over, I'll get in touch.

 

[Storyteller]

(sniff).....

 

[coolumbla]

so next year are we going to have a draft for the nimble ragamuffin???

 

[medhead]

so next year are we going to have a draft for the nimble ragamuffin???

I think we could adapt a truism about sharing foxhole - don't share it with someone braver than you. I'm not sure I would want to share a team with someone who pulls up the average so dramatically.