Sarah likes to think of herself as being rather fit and anticipated that she would be crowned the daily winner, or if not first at least second - surely she could out-walk her Mum! How wrong she was. It turns out Heather is actually a walking machine who has beaten (and often doubled) Sarah's distance every single day! At the end of last week Sarah had had enough of being the loser and in a last-ditch effort to take out the week, walked Te Mata Peak for hours, only to still end up 12,000 steps behind her Mum's daily total.
Martin is concerned that Heather's legs will soon fall off and if Sarah tries to keep up she may actually die from too much walking.
After some research, he discovered there are several ways to add distance to your tracker without actually moving.
An electric knife is handy, as is the jiggly thing they use to mix paint (technical term) but to really get your step count up, expert cheaters suggest putting your tracker in the dryer and letting it run the equivalent of a marathon for you, in the time it takes you to watch three episodes of Shortland Street (taking care not to strain yourself whilst operating the remote control).
Sure it sort of defeats the purpose of using a personal tracker, but when you have a Mum as dedicated to walking as Sarah's mum, anything and everything has to be considered.
