Excellent idea! I will work on that today. I have walked 4.36 miles, burning 462 calories. This is the first time I am sweating. This is a giood sign. I was doing sixteen minute miles. My heart rate averaged about 140, peaking at 163. A good cardio workout. My speed averaged 3.6 mph with as high as 4.5 mph in segments of my walk. My today’s goal is 2552 calories due to my exersize. My menu for today will have me consume 2532 calories. So I met my mark. FWIW I have walked a total of 9,903 steps so far. By the end of the day, I will have walked another one or two thousand steps.

What I did was walk as fast as I possibly could until I really needed to slow down. This pushed my heart rate into the 150s. I continued walking at a brisk pace. When my heart rate started to recover, then I did this again. In this way on the second attempt I had my heart rate in the low 160s. I will do this approach from now on. I will have a goal of doing this at least once per mile. Next time I will find my max heart rate by then doing this another time. Then I will add a few points to that heart rate and then configure my heart rate zones for my watch. Formulas, and there is more than one, has my max heart rate at about 172. Currently, my watch has it as 162. So that is obviously wrong.