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Realistic to do 45k steps per day?

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bluebellsandcustard · 09/09/2022 19:06

We're an office based profession. Currently doing a walkathon for September, there's a guy in another office who's done 230k steps (SUPPOSEDLY!!) since Monday, about 45k a day.

Is that even possible or is he just having us on?
FWiW, he looks late 50s and not sporty!!

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PollyIndia · 03/07/2025 07:57

Thats what I did at glastonbury this weekend but includes dancing steps, plus you walk so much. I think highly unlikely outside of that setting!

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xsquared · 16/09/2022 14:21

bluebellsandcustard · 11/09/2022 18:01

He's averaged 45k for the whole week now. Honestly, he looks like a typical pasty faced 60 yr old office worker.
To be fair, I don't know him so maybe he's really a superman. Who knows...

45k steps for the whole week sounds more likely. That's a little less than 6500 steps per day which I can easily exceed by walking 30 minutes to and from work amd a bit more at work.

xsquared · 16/09/2022 14:13

He is lying or he will blame his app foe the inaccuracy.

I only managed a total of 42k on the day of the Great North Run, including the walk from the drop off point to the start line, the race itself, the mooching about afterwards, the walk back after being dropped off a mile from home. In total I covered 22+ miles on the day and your colleague is not doing that everyday!

Rapidtango · 16/09/2022 09:40

Most I've ever recorded in a day was 32K and that included a 6 hour route march in the Vosges mountains and a 3 hour walk around Colmar. I was absolutely stuffed by the evening. So no, I wouldn't believe it.

ememem84 · 16/09/2022 09:35

i'm still invested in this too. how is he doing it?

PestorPeston · 15/09/2022 21:57

45K steps is 12 and a half hours on the grandfather clock pendulum.

00100001 · 15/09/2022 21:53

Come on OP....

jelly79 · 14/09/2022 22:20

Interested as to when this guys owns up!!!

00100001 · 11/09/2022 18:52

Ask him tomorrow....

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bluebellsandcustard · 11/09/2022 18:01

He's averaged 45k for the whole week now. Honestly, he looks like a typical pasty faced 60 yr old office worker.
To be fair, I don't know him so maybe he's really a superman. Who knows...

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emmathedilemma · 11/09/2022 16:39

Does it have a conversion rate for other activities? I did one of these challenges once where it was quite easy to wrack up “steps” if you used the given conversion rate from cycling. But that many from
walking or running alone sounds quite unrealistic unless he’s a very serious distance runner, and even then they wouldn’t do that many every day.

RedWingBoots · 10/09/2022 18:59

Verbena87 · 09/09/2022 19:47

When I did a 21 mile fell race, running, that was 40-something k steps. He’s a bullshitter or his watch is broken. Or both.

Yep

I use to run marathons.

My steps were more on my long run days than on the days I actually ran the marathons. Even then they were around 50k.

The OP will have a few colleagues who either own active dogs or are runners, she needs to find out their steps.

HorribleHerstory · 09/09/2022 22:26

The most I’ve ever done was 68500 and it was around 29 miles that day.

I’ve done a few months of going over 20000 every day and it can be hard to fit it in with general life. When I’m doing a specific hiking holiday I’ll do between 35000 and 45000 each day for several days in a row

I think your colleague is bullshitting

BloodyCamping · 09/09/2022 22:22

Also if he’s using a sports watch it might be counting whilst working on the computer and moving his hands about

BloodyCamping · 09/09/2022 22:20

45k would be 18 miles for me.

have you asked how he gets his steps in?

it’s not impossible but a lot of steps! I do 10k walking to and from work, another 10k at work, plus any dog walks

Egghead68 · 09/09/2022 22:13

10K steps walking takes me 1 hour 22 minutes so I don’t think 45K a day is realistic.

limitededitionbarbie · 09/09/2022 21:56

Is he counting wanking as steps. Sorry but it's the only thing that came to mind.

CryCeratops · 09/09/2022 21:33

I’m struggling to believe that’s possible.

I think 10k steps is around 5 miles? So he’d have to be walking over 20 miles a day. With a full time office job? Not likely. Not unless he’s installed a treadmill under his desk and is walking on that all day long.

greenhousegal · 09/09/2022 21:27

bluebellsandcustard · 09/09/2022 20:46

I'd love to do that trail, it's on my to-do list!

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It can be tough in places especially in bad weather, but it is a great experience. I am not a hell for leather walker or anything like that, I am a snail!, but I do have stamina at least so could do between 15 and 25k a day depending on the terrain and the stages where there was a bed!

I didn't do it all at once, but did portions over a few years. Lots of people do it that way as it would take 4-6 weeks without looking at the roses to complete it in one go! I did the French way over the Pyrenees, a bloody tough climb but I got my bags sent on to the next stop and that made it doable as I am a silver haired 60+ madwoman!

Have a look at the website caminodesantiago.me for lots of information if you ever get to do it.

Katnissx · 09/09/2022 21:18

No shade, but why don't you just ask him? I think it's quite reasonable to question how he managed to do 44k steps before 6am?

00100001 · 09/09/2022 20:55

I'd be tempted to ask him.

Wow, how do you cover so many steps? I did a 20 mile walk in the summer and that was only 30,000 steps! (Or whatever)

LynneBenfield · 09/09/2022 20:52

44k before 6am? Absolute bollocks. He’s pulling an embarrassingly obvious fast one.

IconicKitty · 09/09/2022 20:51

It would take just under 3 hours to do 20k if walking at a normal steady pace. So he would have to be walking for 6 hours a day.

Soontobe60 · 09/09/2022 20:51

On holiday in Amsterdam, we walked for hours on 3 days, literally 6 hours each day. We totalled about 20k steps each day, so no, he’s lying.

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