Before long I glanced at the clock and noticed an hour had passed. Using both hands I did indeed spend sixty minutes for sixty steps. But I remembered the number on her app and I had a long way to go. Not to say I wasn't enjoying myself but I knew doing it in one night was impossible. Noticing my attention was elsewhere, Carmen pulled a foot from my hand and shuffled herself so she could playfully kick me in the side of the head with her sole.

"Uh uh," waving her foot near my face "you're on my time now."

A streak of boldness overcame me and I took...