The Tracks of my Steps

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I want to see how far I walk each day so, being Friday I decided as you do, to wear a pedometer. Thus far I have walked a round trip of 475 yards to get my early morning mug of fresh brewed coffee from our deli.

This is going to be an interesting experiment. As I walk I hear the click-clack of the mechanism in the unit attached to my belt. The click-clack is annoying but oh so much better than the jingling noice of loose change in a trouser pocket!

I am heading toward the 10,000+ steps per day. I need to rid myself of the cute little beer boep that took so many pleasant times in pubs and clubs and braais (BBQs) over the years to cultivate. Since I stopped drinking any alcohol back in February, my pride n joy has no purpose anymore. It was used in the ceremonial beer boep display us males do at the ‘males only allowed around the fire’ gathering at braais (BBQs), while the females gather in the kitchen to put finishing touches to the inevitable potato salad!

Aaaaah nothing beats male chauvinism at its best - when the hunters gather around the fire at the entrance to the cave getting ready to roast the cutlets of freshly slain T-Rex! TV remotes out of site, we can catch up on the rugby try of the match, which soccer player has transferred for how many gazzilon pounds and which footballers’ wife is canoodling with which player while hubby is doing his 90 minutes each Saturday afternoon of fake injury dives on the football pitch.

Rugby players don’t go to drama classes to learn how to fake a ‘push’ or a two-legged tackle. No sir, we get fed the real thing like crash tackles and elbow-leading chargedowns into the chest and also loads of fisticuffs and hard punches to the face, broken noses, cuts, bruises, grass burns (the real thing!) broken arms, wrists, ankles and legs.

No wonder I prefer rowing!

UPDATE: 11:15am - Pedometer reading = 1,979

UPDATE: 15:22pm - Pedometer reading = 4,272

UPDATE: 18:13pm - Pedometer reading = 5,515

OK. This tells me that I need to do a load more walking.