Anyone ever estimated how much walking (miles) or how many steps one takes during a USPSA match?  Seems like it would add up to a lot given the amount of times down range and back to score, repair targets and reset steel.

 

It's almost like a workout, right?

 

 

Ask Raz-0 , he carries a fitbit or something like it. I think he said it is in the 7-10 mile range depending how much you RO, build, etc.

I use MyFitnessPal to monitor my diet and excercise and gave myself credit for 90 minutes of "Walking - Casual Pace."  

 

I'm pretty sure my wife has a pedometer.  I'm going to have to wear it.

 

"Look hun...you told me to get more exercise.  USPSA IS exercise."

 

Whaddathink? 

Ask Raz-0 , he carries a fitbit or something like it. I think he said it is in the 7-10 mile range depending how much you RO, build, etc.

that's a pretty good workout right there , add -on my nervous pacing routine and it's more like 87 mi.

I think I had a pedometer on before during a match - was at about 5 miles....

If you are old and fat....too much. 

Well I don't have the numbers handy for USPSA but I shot an 8 stage IDPA match at Easton yesterday and then two supplemental steel stages.  I am almost always down range pasting and my fitbit said I had done about 7,000 steps, so that isn't all that much - perhaps three of miles at best. USPSA might be a little more as stages are typically a little bigger, but then some are just standing shooting from a box too.

It depends a lot on the match and what you do and how you do it. 

 

For me it ranges from about 3 miles for a very sedentary match where I don't really work to about 17-18 miles for the mid atlantic sectional match we did at CJ. That was my record as I got to do all my usual MD stuff and wrangling for that match but got stuck without a cart, and that was without shooting, and being an RO and/or scorekeeper for a lot more people. 

 

On average doing stage building, trouble shooting, shooting the match, stage resetting, ROing and scoring as needed, clean up and go home is good for about 8-12 miles at OB and good for 5-7 miles at CJ with a cart. Just shooting a match and doing your part resetting at OB is more walking than at CJ. I would guess that if you are lazy about resetting, it's about 2.5 miles at OB, and about a mile and a half  at CJ. 

Thanks Matt.

 

If I'm not taping and resetting I'm running the nook, so far from lazy.

You should try to RO.  Keeping up with the rabbits in your squad is tiring stuff.  I usually wake up all sore the next day.  The only good thing is that this is probably the only strenuous exercise I do.  I really should exercise more and perhaps I wouldn't be so sore the next day.

I do run the timer but it's a little outside my comfort zone.

 

I'm taking the RO course and will feel better about doing it once I've passed the test.

 

And I get the sore part.  Between running the timer and going back and forth with the nook and taping and picking up steel during last Sunday's 3 gun match my legs were  sore and I tweaked my knee or hamstring.  I've got pain radiating from behind the kneecap.  Feels like it did when I tore the miniscus in that knee 7 years ago.  

Good luck with the RO class.  George will run you thru your paces.

 

I was nervous also when I first ran it.  Sometimes if it's been a while since I've actually ran any shooters, I sometimes forget so practice is your best friend.  After the class, I ran some friends who were interested in shooting USPSA.  It was good practice for me and good practice for them.

 

My shoulder is still sore from the 3G match.

Mike,

 

Simple. Next time wear a pedometer and see how many miles it is.

 

Rich

FYI. I got stuck running the ob match today. Total was just short of 12 miles.

It's more walking that I gave credit.

Wow I taped non stop except when I was reloaded and my FitBit only showed about five miles at OB today

Only 5.

 

It's a lot of walking, far more than what I gave credit for when I first considered it.