WALKING MILES IN A DAY

Shannon News, 22 February 1927, Page 1

WALKING MILES IN A DAY

HOUSEWIFE’S PEDOMETER. . In spite of all that the physicians tell us about the vital importance of walking as a factor in health, few of us take tho trouble to reckon up how much ground wo cover in a day. writes Harry J. Fernie, a golf professional, in tho Daily Mail. # lf we did, a good many of us would be astonished. Even people who, spend most of their time indoors, and never walk merely for the sake of fitness, would be surprised and gratified if they knew their daily mileage. As a professional golfer I find myself occupied largely with teaching. During the season it is quite common for mo to give 9 or 10 lessons of an hour each dally. At the end of the day I usually felt very tired, and 1 often wondered how many miles I walked in the course of the day’s instruction. So I got a pedometer' m contrivance similar to a ■wat.ch, which starts to record as soon as the wearer starts walking. To my surprise I found that( after an ordinavy golf lesson, I had walked a little over two miles, and that in ono week, after having given 54 lessons, I found the pedometer had registered a little over 110 miles. I had been under the impression that as I had not been playing golf on the course that week I had not had much exercise. Actually I had covered 17 miles a day. During her cleaning season my wife wore the pedometer, and was surprised to find that her running up and down stairs and attending to different household duties the pedometer registered about 10 miles a day. As a further test I gave the pedometer to a solicitor friend whp was doing no walking except in connection with his business, and he found that he was covering about eight miles a day. My own golf course is 6300 yards long—that s, a little less than 3} m les. I wa s Playing with a pupil who carried the pedometer. He was pulling his tee shots badly off the line. At the end of the round we found that, with tho distances between greens and tees, the pedometer had registered 5 1-8 miles for the round— more than an extra half round of tho course.