[RSS Club] Half a million steps is about 10 marathons

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I'm not a big fan of the "Quantified Self" movement, but since buying a ridiculously cheap smartwatch, I've been interested to see just how many steps I take per day.

During our recent Interrail holiday, we travelled about 6,400 Km by train over 49 days. But how much did we cover by foot?

My watch pairs with the Open Source app Gadgetbridge rather than the crappy app made by the manufacturer. Sadly, Gadgetbridge doesn't have a simple way to export data in a usable format. Instead, it spews out a database dump and asks you to run SQL commands to get information out.

After a bit of swearing at the command-line, I got my daily step count. I didn't always wear my watch, but this is accurate enough for my purposes.

In seven weeks, I took 545,453 steps.

The average stride length for someone my height is around 80 cm.

So that's a total of about 436,362 metres

A marathon is about 42 Km.

No wonder I feel knackered. I think I need a holiday to recover!