how do you set that up? would love to know how much holly runs a night
How far/fast/long does your hedgie wheel?
So, I have set up bike pedometers on each of my hedgies wheels. I entered 957 milimeters as the size of the wheel (cake top wheel, 12 inches diameter).
Here are my results for the first night: We will see if these are totally off.
ZOEY: Didn't wheel at all. I checked & her wheel is fine & the pedometer is working.
Will have to keep an eye on her. It is, however, one of Reaper's wheels & the sensor is a little farther away from the magnet than Cholla's CSW wheel.
CHOLLA: OK, tell me if this is crazy. He did 4 1/2 hours. Average speed of 2.9 & a total of 13.63 miles?!!??? :shock: I must have done something wrong. I can't believe he ran that much. If so, than I am a sorry, sad lump of a human. If my hedgie can run a 1/2 marathon & I can't make myself go around the block.
For those of you who keep track, feel free to post what your hedgie usually does. I think it would be interesting to know.
Edit: I had kilometers instead of miles. Actually ran 8.47 miles.
Here are my results for the first night: We will see if these are totally off.
ZOEY: Didn't wheel at all. I checked & her wheel is fine & the pedometer is working.
Will have to keep an eye on her. It is, however, one of Reaper's wheels & the sensor is a little farther away from the magnet than Cholla's CSW wheel.CHOLLA: OK, tell me if this is crazy. He did 4 1/2 hours. Average speed of 2.9 & a total of 13.63 miles?!!??? :shock: I must have done something wrong. I can't believe he ran that much. If so, than I am a sorry, sad lump of a human. If my hedgie can run a 1/2 marathon & I can't make myself go around the block.
For those of you who keep track, feel free to post what your hedgie usually does. I think it would be interesting to know.
Edit: I had kilometers instead of miles.
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Go Zoey, go zoey!! It does seem high but I totally believe it, they can be determined little runners, grats to Zoey. Don't feel bad though cause 13 miles puts me to shame as well because I can't find the motivation to go around the block either, especially with the heat lol
I would love to set one of those up for my little Sandra because she loves running and is one of those hedgies that don't care who is around because she is gonna do what she planned to do lol It would be interesting to know how much Loken runs too because I know he runs some but he won't do it in front of everyone and he is super tidy so there is no way to gage it on the mess left in the morning. I have only caught him in the act a handful of times
It does seem high but I totally believe it, they can be determined little runners, grats to Zoey. Don't feel bad though cause 13 miles puts me to shame as well because I can't find the motivation to go around the block either, especially with the heat lol I would love to set one of those up for my little Sandra because she loves running and is one of those hedgies that don't care who is around because she is gonna do what she planned to do lol It would be interesting to know how much Loken runs too because I know he runs some but he won't do it in front of everyone and he is super tidy so there is no way to gage it on the mess left in the morning. I have only caught him in the act a handful of times
OK. I am officially bewildered & amazed & in total awe of Cholla. I reset the pedometer last night. Re-entered the wheel info & everything, just in case I had made a mistake the first time. Nope. My little man is a marathon running fiend! Here's last night's figures...
Distance - 8.08
Max speed - 4.1 mph
Time - 4 hours & 32 minutes.
Zoey, however, only spent 32 seconds on the wheel, but she got up to 4.4 mph.
I think that this is really good to know. I am going to try & cover Zoey's cage tonight & see if total darkness helps. She's in the office & there's a street light outside. Maybe that's the problem. But now that I know, we can try different things & see what works. Or maybe nothing is wrong & she just takes after me! :lol:
*edited to correct kilometers to miles
Distance - 8.08
Max speed - 4.1 mph
Time - 4 hours & 32 minutes.
Zoey, however, only spent 32 seconds on the wheel, but she got up to 4.4 mph.
I think that this is really good to know. I am going to try & cover Zoey's cage tonight & see if total darkness helps. She's in the office & there's a street light outside. Maybe that's the problem. But now that I know, we can try different things & see what works. Or maybe nothing is wrong & she just takes after me! :lol:
*edited to correct kilometers to miles
Well, well. Here's another example of how wonderful & helpful this site is. From reading other posts, you find that some hedgies will not run on their wheels unless it is totally dark. We discovered last night that Zoey is that way.
She is currently in the office, under quarantine from Cholla intil her 30 days are up. There's a streetlight at the front of our house, so it would shine a bit in through the curtains.
Ever since we installed the pedometer, we noticed that she hardly ran at all. 32 seconds the other night.
We covered her cage up last night, so she would have complete darkness. Here's the results:
Distance - 2.34 miles
Max speed -4.2 mph
Total time: 2 hours & 8 minutes.
Obviously, 2+ hours is much, much better than 32 seconds. Thank you guys very much for all the help. Larry - help with the pedometer on the wheel. Puffers - help figuring out that Zoey needs complete darkness. A running hedgie is a happy hedgie! And a happy hedgie is a happy hedgie-mommy!! *edit spelling*
*edited to correct kilometers to miles
She is currently in the office, under quarantine from Cholla intil her 30 days are up. There's a streetlight at the front of our house, so it would shine a bit in through the curtains.
Ever since we installed the pedometer, we noticed that she hardly ran at all. 32 seconds the other night.
We covered her cage up last night, so she would have complete darkness. Here's the results:
Distance - 2.34 miles
Max speed -4.2 mph
Total time: 2 hours & 8 minutes.
Obviously, 2+ hours is much, much better than 32 seconds. Thank you guys very much for all the help. Larry - help with the pedometer on the wheel. Puffers - help figuring out that Zoey needs complete darkness. A running hedgie is a happy hedgie! And a happy hedgie is a happy hedgie-mommy!!
*edit spelling**edited to correct kilometers to miles
Woops! I knew it was too good to be true!Sorry guys - I had the pedometer set to kilometers instead of miles. That changes 13 kilometers per night to actually only 8.
Still better than I do!!
I did make a mistake - but it was using kilometers instead of miles.goodbyemailbox said:
Woops.I have made the correction in the odometers. But that still is 8 miles a night. I agree, it still sounds like alot. But, then again, so does 4+ hours total of wheeling a night.
To double-check, I did go back to the instructions. It says to multiply the diameter of the wheel (12 inches =304.8 mm) by pi (3.1416) to get the circumfrence of the wheel. (=957.559 mm). And to enter that number into the odometer as the "wheel factor". It had a few examples, like 20 inch diameter wheel would equal 1596 mm in the wheel factor.
Let me know if I am missing anything.
That's exactly how I did itPJM said:
. Last nite Xavier ran 6.4 miles with a top speed of 2.9mph and an avg. speed of 1.8mph,and was on the wheel for alittle over 4 hours total.
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