My weight today is 175. I have walked 7,500 steps, out of which 5,965 steps were made during my walk. I have burned 324 calories with a total distance of 3.01 miles. My average heart rate was 143, peaking at 165 bpm. I did a slow run for a short segment of my walk to get my heart rate up. So even though my speed averaged 3.7, my peek speed was 7 mph. So this was another cardio workout. It is getting more difficult to get my heart rate up unless I push myself when I am getting tired, or I start to run.

This exersize with the correction by MFP provided a calorie goal of 2679 calories. Since my actual goal is 3000 calories, I made sure I ate this much, which has turned out to 3178 calories. I am looking forward to find my weekly weight gain with this large calorie count.

I have been trying to numerically assess my physical condition. My watch has what is called a VO2max value for this. However, it is telling me that I have the health of a person well into their seventies. I did not understand this. The formula takes into consideration pace, heart rate, and distance, besides BMI. I saw that one way to improve the score is to walk much less than 15 minute miles. How? I knew this score is off. Then it just occurred to me that I can only do this by runnng. So in order to have a more telling score, I have to be able to run for a distance. So I am going to work on this with a treadmill at my fitness center. I do not want to run my heart out just to find that I have no energy to return home. Once my fitness score is more accurate, my calories burned will also be more accurate.