Who took a pedometer this year?

[halvin]

I took a pedometer for the first time this year and my total distance from Wednesday to Sunday was about 32km (just under 20 miles), which I think is surprisingly low. I didn't carry the pedometer absolutely all the time so the real figure may be 10 or 20 percent higher.

Because I'm an idiot I didn't write down the numbers but I remember that on the last day day I racked up just over 10k. I think the lowest day was the first day at around 4k.

[Josie's Cat]

I didn't, but on the Friday I spoke to a lady who did, and she said she had walked 9 miles on the Thursday! 9 miles! That's crazy. She said she thought her feet were a bit sore - flip flops rubbing a bit!!!

[Sam Crawley]

What we need is someone with a GPS watch to record accurately what they get up to! I am a bit of a "see everything" kind of person so I'm sure I rack up the mileage over the fest, no idea how much at the moment but my feet and legs sure indicate to me that they've done their fair bit!

[Mellon collie]

i had one for most of the weekend unfortunatly as it resets at 12am i always never got the finally total for the day but it was roughly between 8 and 15km a day

[oafc0000]

What we need is someone with a GPS watch to record accurately what they get up to! I am a bit of a "see everything" kind of person so I'm sure I rack up the mileage over the fest, no idea how much at the moment but my feet and legs sure indicate to me that they've done their fair bit!

[ministe2003]

Never done it but it's a brilliant idea, definitely something to try next year!

[glosoli]

Surely everytime you bounce up and down at a stage it'll clock it as steps? It could add another few Kms to the tally.

[halvin]

Surely everytime you bounce up and down at a stage it'll clock it as steps? It could add another few Kms to the tally.

[Crouchie]

25 miles. including dancing

[worthyraver]

I plan to get a pedometer for this year, I am really curious as to how many miles I rack up over the five days, I will leave it on all the time, as far as I am concerned dancing and raving count as steps. Anybody planning on taking one of these this year?

If so any tips on what one to get?

[halvin]

I got one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000FBS3TO/

I wouldn't recommend it because it only gives you the total distance for a day and automatically resets at midnight. It remembers the distances for the last seven days so if you want your total for the whole festival you have to add up the totals within a couple of days of getting home. What I really wanted was a totaliser that was manually reset -- reset it when I get out of the car on Wednesday, check the distance when I get back the the car on Monday.

There's also no way to switch it off. The manual say that the battery should last for at least six months, but that's not very useful if you only use it once per year.

[worthyraver]

That is interesting as in the 30 minutes of research I have done, that was the one I was looking at. Maybe more research is needed then.

[worthyraver]

I managed to wear my pedometer for the entire time I was at Glastonbury this year, here are the results:

Wednesday: 15.761 Km

Thursday: 29.797 Km

Friday: 14.051 Km

Saturday: 21.353 Km

Sunday: 22.344 Km

Monday: 13.937 Km

Total: 117.243 Km

No wonder I was so tired.

All the readings were taken with a Silva EX3 Pedometer:

Silva EX3 Pedometer

Which was £19.87 when I bought it a couple months before the festival, seems to have gone up a bit since.

Anyone else take any readings?

[misseatalot]

I couldn't find my pedometer sadly. I did buy OH a personal GPS for his b'day but he was afraid to take it incase of losing it (which made sense as his wallet went AWOL on Wed!)

Would have loved to have seen the distance/area covered. As it was our first Glastonbury, we did some crazy walking from for example, Park to Accoustic to Dance Village to Avalon in an afternoon. Plus I love to see everything where ever we are so there wasn't a huge amount of chiling out done. Feet did feel it though.

If we go next year then I'll be taking the GPS I think. I'll keep it im my bag.

[eFestivals]

I managed to wear my pedometer for the entire time I was at Glastonbury this year, here are the results:

Wednesday: 15.761 Km

Thursday: 29.797 Km

Friday: 14.051 Km

Saturday: 21.353 Km

Sunday: 22.344 Km

Monday: 13.937 Km

Total: 117.243 Km

No wonder I was so tired.

Wow!!! But I'm not sure I can quite believe them.

How did you manage to walk nearly 20 miles on the Thursday, and 8 or so miles on the Monday?

Surely the Thursday number includes steps taken while dancing? That's the only way that seems to make sense for such a high figure. 20 miles would be the equivalent of around 10 trips back and forth across the whole site.

But Monday just doesn't seem possible, unless you made 4 trips from your campsite to the car?

edit: or did it include dancing over Sunday night/Monday morning?

Are you sure the thing was recording accurately?

Edited July 6, 2010 by eFestivals

[worthyraver]

Wow!!! But I'm not sure I can quite believe them.

How did you manage to walk nearly 20 miles on the Thursday, and 8 or so miles on the Monday?

Surely the Thursday number includes steps taken while dancing? That's the only way that seems to make sense for such a high figure. 20 miles would be the equivalent of around 10 trips back and forth across the whole site.

But Monday just doesn't seem possible, unless you made 4 trips from your campsite to the car?

edit: or did it include dancing over Sunday night/Monday morning?

Are you sure the thing was recording accurately?

[eFestivals]

I calibrated the pedometer before I left and I am sure it is accurate, but you have mentioned the reason why the reading are so high. They do including dancing and I wanted them to include that, as I feel jumping around like a loon, as in my "old skool" moves takes at least as much and in fact more energy than actually taking a step!

ahhh, that makes more sense then.

[dbgomes]

I've got a pedometer for the 'global corporate challenge' at work and i dont know distance but the steps i recorded each day were as follows. (only took it off to sleep). We also camped in Wickets near ped gate A so most stages were a decent walk, and many days i did multiple walks back and forth

Wed - 10,003 steps (driving to site and parking up and walking to camp)

Thurs - 35,575 steps (big day walking round all the site up till 3am as i saw district 9 in the cinema)

Fri - 28,182 steps

Sat - 38,370 steps (all nighter to watch sun rise at stone circle)

Sun - 32,320 steps

Mon - 7,437 steps leaving site and getting home and sleeping

Im 6'2 so im sure that someone can do some rough calcs on distance, although as someone else pointed out, jigging about while watching someone will be counting as steps as i wore it all day long.

[retrobabies]

I brought mine (yay!)

But, I left it in the car (booo!)

Next year it mite make it to the tent?!

[worthyraver]

I've got a pedometer for the 'global corporate challenge' at work and i dont know distance but the steps i recorded each day were as follows. (only took it off to sleep). We also camped in Wickets near ped gate A so most stages were a decent walk, and many days i did multiple walks back and forth

Wed - 10,003 steps (driving to site and parking up and walking to camp)

Thurs - 35,575 steps (big day walking round all the site up till 3am as i saw district 9 in the cinema)

Fri - 28,182 steps

Sat - 38,370 steps (all nighter to watch sun rise at stone circle)

Sun - 32,320 steps

Mon - 7,437 steps leaving site and getting home and sleeping

Im 6'2 so im sure that someone can do some rough calcs on distance, although as someone else pointed out, jigging about while watching someone will be counting as steps as i wore it all day long.

[coolethan]

wow! I bought a cheapy just before the festival and from wednesday to monday it worked out that I had taken 3,560 steps. Either I had a very, very sedentary festival with a few trips to the toilet thrown in for good measure... or I got a crap one!

[jameshunt]

Didn't need a pedometer as Gary Glitter and Jonathan King weren't on the bill.

[StormCrow]

I've got this one which I cant fault you just pop it in your pocket and away you go. Omron Pedometer

I can't match some of the distances covered here but I worked mine out on the journey home on Monday and I did approx 45miles for 5 days from Wed to Sun. No dancing included though as I'm a miserable git but a few journeys up that friggin hill which must be worth a few extra miles

[RoyC]

Mine got lost in the mud very rapidly this year, anyone else have better luck?

[Festi_Lizard]

I love this thread and am very interested to know how many miles I walk at the fest. This year I had really sore hips from all the walking, esp in the sticky mud.

I think I read in the Glasto Firelighter that the average person walks around 10miles per day. No wonder we're all tired!