Today i had a student, an older - probably early 50's - business man, who arrived to my lesson about 10 minutes late. He explained that the health insurance division of his company had distributed walking meters to his company's employees as a way to promote a healthy lifestyle through walking. He said that the average person walks around 17,000 steps a day and that a sort of competition to see who could take the most steps had arisen within his division. He continued to explain that he was late because he had a meeting that finished early so he decided to take a walk from Tokyo station to Yotsuya - a distance of seven train stations; 8,000 steps - to get in the lead of the competition.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
8,000 Steps
Today i had a student, an older - probably early 50's - business man, who arrived to my lesson about 10 minutes late. He explained that the health insurance division of his company had distributed walking meters to his company's employees as a way to promote a healthy lifestyle through walking. He said that the average person walks around 17,000 steps a day and that a sort of competition to see who could take the most steps had arisen within his division. He continued to explain that he was late because he had a meeting that finished early so he decided to take a walk from Tokyo station to Yotsuya - a distance of seven train stations; 8,000 steps - to get in the lead of the competition.
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I like the sound of a footstep competition, could that be something we could do here in D-town.
Maybe we could have an international footstep competition... shhhh, better to not say that on the web, someone is likely to steal our idea before it comes to reality? hmmm, an inter-city (between cities) foot step competition? sounds great! lets do it!
I miss you too, we need some dad time together. Sunny is almost 2, totally crazy too!
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