The High Heeled Ruminations Of Melrose Plant

[mlroseplant]

One thing I hadn't noticed at first, but somebody else did. If you look way in the back, you can see my son practicing his bass, patiently waiting for me to quit talking and go home.

[CrushedVamp]

On 1/1/2026 at 3:54 AM, higherheels said:

Congratulations, 740 km in heels is insanely much!

You always get me curious on how much I walk in heels, but not curious enough to make the effort of tracking it and making a statistic 😉

Maybe I'll once do it for one typical week and then see how that would sum up for one year, to get an idea.

It will probably shock you!

This is in no way doing so in high heels, but I walk for exercise. I typically walk 5-7 (8 to 10 km) miles per day. Well my phone tracks me and since deciding to walk daily no matter the weather, my mileage shot right up.

Sure, it is only 35-40 (56-60 km) miles per week, but that equates to a 160 (257 km) miles a month, or around 2000 (3200) miles a year. It does not sound far, but for me that is like walking from Maine to Colorado. For you that is like walking from Berlin to Kuwait. And all by just by walking a few miles a day. So it really adds up more than you would think.

 

[higherheels]

It really sums up! 8-10 km everyday is also quite a lot.

I really have to track one week with my phone to get an idea of hos much I walk. But nowhere close to you, that's for sure 😀

[mlroseplant]

I am not off to a great start with the walking, distance-wise, but I'm glad I did not attempt a second mile in those high pumps. I think I probably would have ruined them. It's very early days, though. As long as I don't make laziness a habit.

And now for something completely different.  .  . I was attempting to clean up a portion of my basement yesterday, and I ran across some photos from my university, specifically a couple different graduating classes. Flipping through, I noticed that more than half of the girls were wearing heels, which is kind of what I remember for dressy occasions, but exactly zero of them were what we would consider "high" heels.  The one girl I knew who might have been wearing shoes that approached four inch, well naturally you can't see her shoes in my old photo. Another girl that I remember who wore heels a lot (several times a week, and even for more casual dressing) was dressed smartly in black patent pumps which had a whopping heel height of maybe 2 1/2 inches. What I used to think was excitingly attractive is a big yawn now. I'm ruined for life.

[Shyheels]

My best effort for walking in heels  is just under 20k steps while I was wearing a pair of grey suede OTK boots with 7 to 8cm heels. The boots are very well made, fit beautifully and logging that number of steps was easy. I pretty much forgot I was in heels 

[pebblesf]

2 hours ago, Shyheels said:

My best effort for walking in heels  is just under 20k steps while I was wearing a pair of grey suede OTK boots with 7 to 8cm heels. The boots are very well made, fit beautifully and logging that number of steps was easy. I pretty much forgot I was in heels 

That's how you know when a pair of boots fits well, and are engineered for actually walking in...Best feeling ever

[mlroseplant]

I got the chance to play with the high school pep band at a basketball game Friday night. I elected to play tuba, because they didn't have any tuba players--I was the only one. So I had to drag out the tuba and play it a little bit every day all last week to regain my chops. Yes, I know the thing is huge--it's probably more of a three-ba than a tuba. At any rate, I elected to wear much flatter shoes than I would normally wear, just because I had visions of falling down the stairs at the high school gym while carrying that monster. My friend from church was at the game for some reason, and sneaked up behind me while I was carrying the tuba back to the band room just to tell me that she noticed I had lost a few inches of heel for this gig. You cannot actually see me in this band picture, but you can see my bell!

[Shyheels]

I’m impressed! That thing is huge! My musical talent is limited to playing the iPad, which I do rather well, even in 12cm stilettos!