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🎯 Pinball Results Snapshot

Standings (so far)

Me: 15th place — 250 pts (very close to B division cutoff)

Andrew: 8th place — 269 pts (very close to A division cutoff)

Machine highlights

🥇 Guardians of the Galaxy — 1st
🥈 Jaws (Premium) — 2nd
🥉 Deadpool (Pro) — 3rd
🥉 The Addams Family — 3rd
4th — Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast

Strong recovery night after early games.

Guardians win was a big momentum stabilizer.

🚶‍♀️ Movement Summary (Fitbit)
Totals today
12,022 steps
5.28 miles
2,362 calories burned
61 active zone minutes
Cardio load 42 (above target)
4 of 5 exercise days this week
League play counted more than Fitbit shows
Fitbit labeled league play as “golf” 😆 which happens because:

pinball movement =

stop/start motion
weight shifts
micro steps
standing endurance
elevated focus heart rate spikes

My graph shows repeated small HR bumps — classic competitive concentration pattern.

🧠 What today demonstrates

Incidental exercise in action

Pinball nights include:

standing endurance
walking between machines
tension release movement
mental effort (which affects HR)
posture engagement
repeated short bursts of motion

All of that contributes to calorie burn and fatigue.

Fitbit just doesn’t always categorize it well.
Future blog post material: “Fitness trackers don’t understand pinball.”

Incidental Exercise Receipts

Still Counts.