StepTrackLite Confirmed That I Am Out Of Shape
2 miles into my “run” this morning, I approached an intersection, thankful to see the big red hand telling me to stop. I might have stopped anyway. I was sucking wind hard.
I hadn’t run in a long, long time. And as I took in large quantities of air, I had a brief moment of clarity. “Hey,” I thought. “Maybe I should test StepTrakLite for the last portion of this death march.” So I did.
The last portion of my run/jog/walk is 100% uphill. It’s the downside of living on one of the highest points around. I didn’t even attempt to run it. I just turned on StepTrakLite and put the iPhone back in my pocket. For most of that last mile, I simply walked at a brisk pace. It was certainly faster than I’d normally walk, but it did not even approach a Jog. When I pulled the iPhone out of my pocket and checked the final stats, this is what I found.
First off, I clearly need to alter the settings, you’ll see that graphic below. It judged my brisk walk as running and I can tell you right now, that just wasn’t the case. But apparently 248 of my steps were so slow that they registered as walking. I don’t know what part of the “run” those steps might have taken place. I wasn’t getting enough oxegen to my brain to remember anything. What the graphic clearly shows, however, is that it took me sixteen and a half minutes to walk that last uphill mile. Yep. That confirms it. I’m officially out of shape. Thanks for that insight, StepTrakLite. I appreciate it.
I watched for part of the way and it did indeed count each step accurately, even though my classification of steps was off. I would agree that it was “vigorous” but I wasn’t running. So, the application allows you to change the sensitivity in the settings.
Clearly, I need to change my classification bias to have it more accurately predict my running. But applications like this one are what I love about the iPhone. StepTrakLite helps make the iPhone something more than a phone. And this is an application I’ll certainly be using on my “runs” in the future.
Maybe soon I’ll be able to remove the quotations from “run,” and when it counts my steps as running, they actually will be. Sounds like a worthy goal to me.
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I couldn’t help but laugh while reading this Jeff – you are such a wimp LOL …..I’m sure you will snap out of the “sucking wind” phase in no time.