Walking 12/5/2020

Since the charge in my car battery was pretty low, the charging display said it would take an hour to charge to 90%. I was on one of the “urban” chargers that only outputs about 50 kW or ~165 miles/hour. I spent about 20 minutes eating lunch in my car, then decided to go for a walk. I ended up walking around the outside of Santa Ana Main Place. I was going to walk inside too since the mall was open but I forgot to bring a mask from the car so I stayed outside. I felt a little conspicuous without a mask so I walked pretty quickly to avoid any contact or confrontations. Most everyone else I saw had a mask on but they were all headed inside the mall. I ended up walking 0.84 miles at a pace of 19’40”, which is better than 3 miles/hour. It didn’t feel like I was walking that fast.

After getting home and taking a nap, I decided to take another walk around the block. On the Apple Watch, it tracks your daily fitness with three rings: Move, Exercise, and Stand. The idea is to “close your rings” each day by moving and standing enough. I’m fine with those two circles/measures, but the Exercise ring is supposed to track activity at or above a brisk walk. The only issue is the definition of brisk walk. Evidently, 3 miles an hour is not brisk enough since the Exercise ring hardly moved after my round-the-mall walk. On the second walk, I tried to walk at a faster pace but failed. I ended up walking 0.71 miles at a pace of 20’39”. Here is what the rings look like right now:

At the top of the screen, you can see that I’m doing pretty good with the red and blue rings, but I can’t get the green ring (Exercise) to move with consistency. Maybe “brisk walk” actually means “running” or something. From the Move chart, you can see when I got up and went to dialysis at 4:30 am, had lunch and first walk, then went for a second walk before dinner.