Best foot forward

Posted on May 16, 2014 by pensitivity101

work bootsYep, I’m back, and I have a shiny new pair of boots which will be given their first outing later this afternoon.
Same shop, same design, and hurrah, same price.
In and out of said shop in less than five minutes.

Hubby came up with an interesting piece of trivia.
A pair of work boots has a life of approximately 1,500,000 steps.

I’m a number cruncher right?
If you’re up to the challenge, read on. If not, I won’t be offended.

According to answers.com.
Average stride length: 2.2 feet for women and 2.5 feet for men
or
you can estimate stride length relative to your height
(females: height x .413 equals your stride length; males: height x .415 equals your stride length) .

For my post, I decided to use the formula, taking my height at 1.7 meters (5 ‘ 7 “)  and arrived at a stride of just over 27 inches.
On average, our total walk distance each day equates to about 3.5 miles.
So in a year, that’s around 1277.5 miles (no wonder we feel tired) just walking the dog.
(For a comparison, London to Naples is 1250 miles)

From my calculations, it takes me 2321 steps to walk a mile (and no I shall not be counting them to double check!) , so that’s 2,964,923 steps a year.

So bearing in mind that I have worn my boots every day for the past twelve months or so, I have certainly got my money’s worth.

My boots cost £22.50, so that’s just over 6p a day.
Six pence a day to walk 8123 steps in comfort.
So that’s 0.000007589 of a penny per step.
JUST WALKING THE DOG

thanks dog

About pensitivity101

I am a retired number cruncher with a vivid imagination and wacky sense of humour which extends to short stories and poetry. I love to cook and am a bit of a dog whisperer as I get on better with them than people sometimes! We have recently lost our beloved dog Maggie who adopted us as a 7 week old pup in March 2005. We decided to have a photo put on canvas as we had for her predecessor Barney, and now have three pictures of our fur babies on the wall as we found a snapshot of my GSD so had hers done too. From 2014 to 2017 'Home' was a 41 foot narrow boat where we made strong friendships both on and off the water. We were close to nature enjoying swan and duck families for neighbours, and it was a fascinating chapter in our lives. We now reside in a small bungalow on the Lincolnshire coast where we have forged new friendships and interests.
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11 Responses to Best foot forward

  1. janegundogan says:
    May 17, 2014 at 3:15 am

    And this is why I did not go into accounting – yikes!

    • pensitivity101 says:
      May 17, 2014 at 8:59 am

      Analyzing figures was my last but one job, and I loved breaking down all the figures into my spreadsheet of some 78 columns!
      Last company was credit control then promotion to sales ledger and yet another spreadsheet of 56 columns.
      Loved it!
      Like the hair Janey!

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  3. maurnas says:
    May 23, 2014 at 2:50 am

    This is my favorite kind of math right here. I do this stuff in my head dozens of times a day. Love it!

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