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I kicked off my 10,000 steps a day challenge on what just happened to be a rest day, hence no structured exercise. Given the biting winter chill, my wife and I opted for an indoor strategy to accumulate our steps. After touring various grocery stores, we surprisingly logged most of our initial steps merchandising Home Depot while walking laps around the perimeter. Achieving around 4,500 steps for that outing gave me a sense of accomplishment, but reality set in quickly: walking 10,000 steps in cold weather—especially indoors—was a daunting task.