Re: Around the world in 16 years :)

[Guest guest]

Sixteen years go by pretty quickly, Jay. You'll be around the world

before you know it!

>

> The pattern I am reaching in my walking regimen is 5 miles a day; 6

> days a week.

>

> Have also joined the " walk around the world " web site; in addition to

> AOM ... and keeping track of mileage that way as well.

>

> http://www.horsetooth.net/walk/

>

> I believe we have at least 3 fatmanwalking group members who are doing

> that. Anyone is welcome to join that as well.

>

> The site indicates that a walk around the world would be 24,000+

> miles. My calculation is that at 30 miles a week, it would take me 16

> years to finish that amount of distance. 30 miles a week, about

> 1,500 miles per year. So about 16 years for 24,000 miles.

>

[Guest guest]

Jay,

This is to confirm that there are 3 people from here also registered

at " Walk Around the World "

1) You (Jay) (member # 47?)

2) (member # 41 )

3) myself (Gerard) (member # 40 )

Now that I look at the site I think its 4 - there is a Vern Kirkman

member # 58.

Member # 1 is Kirk Pearson who founded this site back in 1998.

Looking at the member numbers (now 59 registered) what is

discourageing is that so many have registered but have recored NO

miles. There are 12 in that category. Granted member number 59 and

possibly number 57. There is no way of telling when a person

registered other than the relationship of the assigned number.

Considering that the website was founded in 1998 which is a little

over 7 years possibly 8, and half of the total number registered

would be numbered below 30. Of these 29 people 16 have recorded less

than 100 miles.

Very discourageing to say the least.

IF you join then follow through.

It looks like this might be hapening at AOM also.

66 registered at AOM but only 36 logging steps. ((

Gerard

> >

> > The pattern I am reaching in my walking regimen is 5 miles

> > a day; 6 days a week.

> >

> > Have also joined the " walk around the world " web site; in

> > addition to AOM ... and keeping track of mileage that way as

> > well.

> >

> > http://www.horsetooth.net/walk/

> >

> > I believe we have at least 3 fatmanwalking group members who

> > are doing that. Anyone is welcome to join that as well.

> >

> > The site indicates that a walk around the world would be 24,000+

> > miles. My calculation is that at 30 miles a week, it would take

> > me 16 years to finish that amount of distance. 30 miles

> > a week, about 1,500 miles per year. So about 16 years for

> > 24,000 miles.

[Guest guest]

There are 4 if you count me. I usually have been doing 5 miles a day. It has been a little less in the last two weeks since my mom fell, broke her hip and then suffered a stroke. Cyndi mr_quiet_1944 wrote: Jay,This is to confirm that there are 3 people from here also registered at "Walk Around the World"1) You (Jay) (member # 47?)2) (member # 41 )3) myself (Gerard) (member # 40 )Now that I look at the site I think its 4 - there is a Vern Kirkman member # 58.Member # 1 is Kirk Pearson who founded this site back in 1998.Looking at the member numbers (now 59 registered) what is discourageing is that so many have registered but have

recored NO miles. There are 12 in that category. Granted member number 59 and possibly number 57. There is no way of telling when a person registered other than the relationship of the assigned number.Considering that the website was founded in 1998 which is a little over 7 years possibly 8, and half of the total number registered would be numbered below 30. Of these 29 people 16 have recorded less than 100 miles.Very discourageing to say the least.IF you join then follow through.It looks like this might be hapening at AOM also.66 registered at AOM but only 36 logging steps. ((Gerard> >> > The pattern I am reaching in my walking regimen is 5 miles> > a day; 6 days a week.> > > > Have also joined the "walk around the world" web site; in> > addition to AOM ... and keeping track of mileage that way as> > well.> > > > http://www.horsetooth.net/walk/> > > > I believe we have at least 3 fatmanwalking group members who> > are doing that. Anyone is welcome to join that as well.> > > > The site indicates that a walk around the world would be 24,000+> > miles. My calculation is that at 30 miles a week, it would take> > me 16 years to finish that amount of distance. 30 miles> > a week, about 1,500 miles per year. So about 16 years for> > 24,000 miles.http://www.thefatmanwalking.com/Keep walking Steve!!!

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[Guest guest]

The more the better.

That brings this group up to 5 for sure (possibly 6)

1) Syddall # 57 41-50 (age bracket)

2) Cyndi Silva # 53 41-50

3) Jay Pedersen # 47 41-50

4) a # 41 unspecified

5) Gerard # 40 61-70

6) Vern Kirkman # 58 51-60 (the possible 6'th I am assuming

this is the member posting here.)

With all this new blood :-))) we are bringing to the website the

numbers

" Club total distance: 20,232.4 miles (32,560.0 kilometers)

(0.8124 laps around the world) " may increase at a faster rate.

Gerard

Jay,

>

> This is to confirm that there are 3 people from here also

> registered at " Walk Around the World "

> 1) You (Jay) (member # 47?)

> 2) (member # 41 )

> 3) myself (Gerard) (member # 40 )

>

> Now that I look at the site I think its 4 - there is a

> Vern Kirkman member # 58.

>

> Member # 1 is Kirk Pearson who founded this site back in 1998.

>

> Looking at the member numbers (now 59 registered) what is

> discourageing is that so many have registered but have recored NO

> miles. There are 12 in that category. Granted member number 59 and

> possibly number 57. There is no way of telling when a person

> registered other than the relationship of the assigned number.

> Considering that the website was founded in 1998 which is a little

> over 7 years possibly 8, and half of the total number registered

> would be numbered below 30. Of these 29 people 16 have recorded

> less than 100 miles.

> Very discourageing to say the least.

>

> IF you join then follow through.

>

> It looks like this might be hapening at AOM also.

> 66 registered at AOM but only 36 logging steps. ((

>

> Gerard

> I joined today at number 57 ( Syddall aka The Dragon)

>

>

> The Dragon (aka High Priestess Enchanting Evenweave), stitching on

RRs = Margaret Sherry and bell-pull also WIPs/UFOs = 3 x

Wentzler, Celtic Summer

>

[Guest guest]

Bill,

To briefly answer your two questions

(1. Is it possible to start you club with swimmer beside my name

and i can log my distance in miles.)

I am assuming you are talking about the website

" Walk Around the World "

This is NOT my club. I am only one of the more recent registered

members. # 40 of (at this point in time) 59.

You will have to e-mail (talk to) Kirk Pearson

He explains the website at

http://horsetooth.net/walk/welcome.html

& his e-mail address is at the bottom of that webpage.

kpearson @ horsetooth (dot) net

(2. P.S. - Did you lose your hearing during ww2? Curious about your

nick name.)

NO. I was born in 1944 and am 62. IF I was in WW2 I'd probably be

older than young .;-)

The short answer for my choosing Mr Quiet is that I was quite shy

(before cyber chat rooms - still am except when at the computer

screen) & when I got involved with the internet & needed a nick I

was usually older than most in the cyber chatters.

therefore I decided (being older than most) Mr. & (being shy) Quiet

but " Yahoo " did not like any of the Mr. Quiet variations I tried

until I tacked on my birth year.

Obviously my nick here is a misnomer but I tell all cyber

friends, " Think of the shortest kid in grade school getting the

nick 'shorty'. Today he may be taller than " Wilt Chamberlan " but all

of his long time friends know him as 'shorty'. " Hence so that my

long time friends recognize me, I have kept the nick.

Gerard

>

> Hi Mr_quiet_1944 ,

>

> I log about 1,000 meters in the pool at least five days per week

and sometimes seven days per week. Is it possible to start you club

with swimmer beside my name and i can log my distance in miles.

>

> Thanks, Bill

> P.S. - Did you lose your hearing during ww2? Curious about your

nick name.

[Guest guest]

> >

> > Hi Mr_quiet_1944 ,

> >

> > I log about 1,000 meters in the pool at least five days per

week

> and sometimes seven days per week. Is it possible to start you club

> with swimmer beside my name and i can log my distance in miles.

> >

> > Thanks, Bill

> > P.S. - Did you lose your hearing during ww2? Curious about your

> nick name.

>

[Guest guest]

It appears that more individuas are getting involved in walking and

websites promoting walking.

Back in October 2005 (how time flies) Buxenbaum (the less

frequetly posting - the other being the

young ;-) runner when his knees cooperate) introduced us to America

on the Move or AOM.

http://www.americaonthemove.org/

the other & more recent Walk Around the World

http://horsetooth.net/walk/

others have brought/mentioned other walking websits.

Walk Around the World is less sophisticated than AOM.

On Walk Around the World you register, given a member number and

enter a password. Using the member number & password you update your

walking in miles OR kilometers. You have to convert your steps to

either miles OR kilometers and that requires you to use a bit of

math. (When I was in Austin my 1960 steps equalled one mile - this

was hilly country so my walking in New Orleans probabaly is

different - something I have to calibrate.)

AOM is quite different. Here you log steps taken OR a time interval

for other physical activities which AOM converts to steps. AOM then

uses the step average of 2,000 steps equal a mile for theire

calculations. It makes no difference if you have " Mickie Roonie's "

statue or that of " Wilt Chamberlan " (sorry about name mispellings).

2,000 steps equal a mile. AOM also provides different courses you

can use to visually see your progress. On the courses it uses 100

steps for a program mile for the course you are on.

Phase one of AOM provides 6 routes of different lengths to complete

over a specific amount of time. IF a shorter route is completed

before the time limit then you have to shift to a longer route (the

distance on this route calculated as though this was the first route

taken - you do not start the new route but are place somewhere in

progress on the new route.) IF you complete the longest route before

the time limit you then effectively walk in place. You can record

the steps taken but you do not see a route progress.

Phase two started after the time interval of phase one ended & a

questionair from AOM answered. This was a 5 leg route around the

parimiter of the US & calculated for completion as 1,000,000 steps.

Krena and I among others are in the sub groupe of AOM referred to

as " Move Mates " . a finished the 1 million step route before me

& she lost all " Move Mate " contact ability although she was allowed

to continue her logging. I was shown that she had completed this

course.

Weather this was a first for AOM participants or a did not

notice IS unknown. Several days/weeks later a was allowed to

(effectively) restart logging her steps which she did. She started a

different route of the 6 & was able to track her progress. My " Move

Mates " looking showed her as completed her route which she was on.

Several days or possibly one or two weeks later I completed the 1

million steps & was offered to walk the initial 6 routes again.

At this stage I can see a's actual route & she can see mine. As

to other " Move Mates " I effectively have " Move Mates " contact lost

the ability to follow their progress. (I haven't checked lately

though.)

Gerard

> > >

> > > Hi Mr_quiet_1944 ,

> > >

> > > I log about 1,000 meters in the pool at least five days per

> > > week and sometimes seven days per week. Is it possible to

> > > start you club with swimmer beside my name and i can log my

> > > distance in miles.

> > >

> > > Thanks, Bill

> > > P.S. - Did you lose your hearing during ww2? Curious about

> > > your nick name.

[Guest guest]

Great! Welcome to Walk Around the World to both of you. It is a great

motivator.

Jay,

> >

> > This is to confirm that there are 3 people from here also

registered

> > at " Walk Around the World "

> > 1) You (Jay) (member # 47?)

> > 2) (member # 41 )

> > 3) myself (Gerard) (member # 40 )

> >

> > Now that I look at the site I think its 4 - there is a Vern

Kirkman

> > member # 58.

> >

> > Member # 1 is Kirk Pearson who founded this site back in 1998.

> >

> > Looking at the member numbers (now 59 registered) what is

> > discourageing is that so many have registered but have recored NO

> > miles. There are 12 in that category. Granted member number 59

and

> > possibly number 57. There is no way of telling when a person

> > registered other than the relationship of the assigned number.

> > Considering that the website was founded in 1998 which is a

little

> > over 7 years possibly 8, and half of the total number registered

> > would be numbered below 30. Of these 29 people 16 have recorded

less

> > than 100 miles.

> > Very discourageing to say the least.

> >

> > IF you join then follow through.

> >

> > It looks like this might be hapening at AOM also.

> > 66 registered at AOM but only 36 logging steps. ((

> >

> > Gerard

> > I joined today at number 57 ( Syddall aka The Dragon)

> >

> >

> > The Dragon (aka High Priestess Enchanting Evenweave), stitching

on RRs =

> > Margaret Sherry and bell-pull also WIPs/UFOs = 3 x

Wentzler,

> > Celtic Summer

>

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have the website where you can sign up for the AOM?

Kind regards

Gavin

From: thefatmanwalking_group [mailto:thefatmanwalking_group ] On Behalf Of karena4823Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2006 1:42 PMTo: thefatmanwalking_group Subject: Re: Around the world in 16 years

Great! Welcome to Walk Around the World to both of you. It is a great motivator. Jay,> > > > This is to confirm that there are 3 people from here also registered > > at "Walk Around the World"> > 1) You (Jay) (member # 47?)> > 2) (member # 41 )> > 3) myself (Gerard) (member # 40 )> > > > Now that I look at the site I think its 4 - there is a Vern Kirkman > > member # 58.> > > > Member # 1 is Kirk Pearson who founded this site back in 1998.> > > > Looking at the member numbers (now 59 registered) what is > > discourageing is that so many have registered but have recored NO > > miles. There are 12 in that category. Granted member number 59 and > > possibly number 57. There is no way of telling when a person > > registered other than the relationship of the assigned number.> > Considering that the website was founded in 1998 which is a little > > over 7 years possibly 8, and half of the total number registered > > would be numbered below 30. Of these 29 people 16 have recorded less > > than 100 miles.> > Very discourageing to say the least.> > > > IF you join then follow through.> > > > It looks like this might be hapening at AOM also.> > 66 registered at AOM but only 36 logging steps. ((> > > > Gerard> > I joined today at number 57 ( Syddall aka The Dragon)> > > > > > The Dragon (aka High Priestess Enchanting Evenweave), stitching on RRs => > Margaret Sherry and bell-pull also WIPs/UFOs = 3 x Wentzler,> > Celtic Summer>

[Guest guest]

I just joined the group, and I'm wondering if you could tell me

where the website for Walk Around the World is. As you can guess, a

web search came up with way too many pages.

lisa

Jay,

> > >

> > > This is to confirm that there are 3 people from here also

> registered

> > > at " Walk Around the World "

> > > 1) You (Jay) (member # 47?)

> > > 2) (member # 41 )

> > > 3) myself (Gerard) (member # 40 )

> > >

> > > Now that I look at the site I think its 4 - there is a Vern

> Kirkman

> > > member # 58.

> > >

> > > Member # 1 is Kirk Pearson who founded this site back in 1998.

> > >

> > > Looking at the member numbers (now 59 registered) what is

> > > discourageing is that so many have registered but have recored

NO

> > > miles. There are 12 in that category. Granted member number 59

> and

> > > possibly number 57. There is no way of telling when a person

> > > registered other than the relationship of the assigned number.

> > > Considering that the website was founded in 1998 which is a

> little

> > > over 7 years possibly 8, and half of the total number

registered

> > > would be numbered below 30. Of these 29 people 16 have

recorded

> less

> > > than 100 miles.

> > > Very discourageing to say the least.

> > >

> > > IF you join then follow through.

> > >

> > > It looks like this might be hapening at AOM also.

> > > 66 registered at AOM but only 36 logging steps. ((

> > >

> > > Gerard

> > > I joined today at number 57 ( Syddall aka The Dragon)

> > >

> > >

> > > The Dragon (aka High Priestess Enchanting Evenweave),

stitching

> on RRs =

> > > Margaret Sherry and bell-pull also WIPs/UFOs = 3 x

> Wentzler,

> > > Celtic Summer

> >

>

[Guest guest]

,

Glad you are getting involved.

There are several websites of interest you may be interested in

looking at.

Some are interesting to read & others let you record activities.

Those that I can think of (and there are more). I know you are

familiar with some of these already but I am including them for the

benefit of others that may read this post.

For your specific request look at 5 b .

1)Steve's website

http://www.thefatmanwalking.com/

2) Individuals inspired by Steve's walk

a) Long

http://www.afatmansjourney.com/

Eldon Ward

http://fatmancycling.com/

3) Other walkers

a)

http://www.meridianman.org/

Pilié

http://www.hikeforkatreena.com/

4) Walk events

a)Bataan Memorial Death March (Next event March 25,2007)

http://www.bataanmarch.com/

Idita-walk (the event ended & probably will occur next year)

http://www.idita-walk.com/

c) Ride Across California Spring Break April 17 - 23, 2006

Deer Canyon Elementary School Students

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusddces/default.htm

5) Walk ( & other type activities) recording sites

a) America on the move

http://www.americaonthemove.org/

Walk Around the World

http://horsetooth.net/walk/

6) Other sites of walking/health interest

a) FitDay Diet & Weight Loss Journal (on line or software)

http://www.fitday.com/

b)Google Map Pedometer

http://walking.about.com/library/walk/blgooglemap1.htm

c) My Food Diary Online Calorie Counter w- Diet Journal & Exercise

Log

http://www.myfooddiary.com/

d) About.com Walking

http://walking.about.com/

Sorry about the long post. Belive I got carried away.

Gerard

>

> I just joined the group, and I'm wondering if you could tell me

> where the website for Walk Around the World is. As you can guess,

> a web search came up with way too many pages.

>

> lisa