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Former land surveyor. Was definitely counting my paces when I was not surveying.
Background: you'd often try to capture a grid of points, or cross section of a road, for example, at regular intervals. You'd roughly know your normal stride length conversion to metres, so if I were doing a 10m grid, it'd be: shoot a point, walk 11 paces, shoot a point, repeat for hundreds, sometimes thousands of points. It wasn't long until you would be counting paces when you weren't actively surveying.