Best Ways to Record Walking?
I've been walking for fitness for about a month now, and I started with a pedometer, which was fine with 20-30 minutes a day. Now that I'm doing 4-5 miles at a stretch, it rolls over at 10k, so I've started just timing my walks by stopwatch.
The problem is that I'm walking outdoors, at a local park with a lake. The trails have hills, dips, and even some stairs depending on what side of the lake you walk. Today I walked the hillier side, 4.4 miles, and I know I was working a lot harder (pouring sweat, actually had to stop and catch my breath once... bleh) than I do doing 5.5 miles on the other side of the lake but my total stopwatch time came out about the same- approx. 18 minutes per mile.
MFP's walking estimates seem to be based solely on treadmill speeds and times? Is there a better way to record my walks? Do I just need to pony up for a good elevation-enabled fitness tracker, maybe?
