Useless Observations

Exercising is an activity that took me 28 years to start and keep up. Six months later I still hate walking. But here are a few interesting though unimportant observations I made while walking everyday:

1) People almost always choose to walk in the anticlockwise direction on the walking track. I have seen only a couple of people taking the clockwise circle, since I started.

2) Women more often than not, walk on the wrong side of the track.

3) Men do better. Most of them walk on their left side.

4) All the people who are regular about their walking regimen are the ones who have no other distractions like music or their mobile phones while walking. In other words, people who can’t walk without entertainment are not motivated enough to exercise regularly.

5) If you see someone walking or jogging extra hard or extra long, chances are you won’t see them again for days on end. The regular ones don’t overdo anything with respect to time or effort but they do it everyday.

6) Weekends are the times you get to see a lot of new faces. Most of even the very regular ones skip exercise on weekends.

7) Weekends are also the times when you see a lot of people wearing specially designed and expensive walking or jogging shoes and clothes. In short, everything correct technically. But these are the people you will see only on weekends or even lesser. Regular walkers don’t mind doing it even in their regular clothes and shoes.

8) People who walk tend to be more regular than people who jog.

9) People, who come along with friends to walk, are never the regular ones.

10) If there are any stray or pet dogs in the park they’ll always be lying in your way on the walking track and not on the grass. I used to get pretty irritated about this before I figured out that it’s probably because they are being bugged by insects on the grass.

11) Everybody, irrespective of class, age, weight, or sex loves a swing. I have seen all kinds of people on the 2 swings originally meant for children, in the park.

Disclaimer: All these conclusions are based solely on my observations in the one park I visit daily. They might or might not be universally true!