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Topic	Would you walk, or bike ride to a gym one mile away?
ParanoidObsessive 07/13/17 2:05:38 PM #42:	Flyingpirate posted... Thats it eh? 1 mile? In Canada thats considered a quick stop to the corner store or Tim Hortons. I guess America is more urban. I used to jog 8 miles to the gym through snow. 4 miles uphill to work. 4 Miles downhill nowadays. Going down hill is annoying, I should sled down or something. Depends on where you live. There are places where you basically have to drive 30 minutes just to get to your local grocery store, whereas other people can get to pretty much every single store they'd ever need in their entire life within 30 minutes. People here have mentioned having to drive more than an hour to go to the movies, I can get there in 15 minutes. Conversely, I don't actually have anything worth seeing or walking to within 1 mile of my house, so I walk almost nowhere. Whereas people who live in NYC might be able to live their entire lives within a 1-2 mile span of area. Age is also a factor. I'd have been a lot more willing to walk a mile to get somewhere 20 years ago than I am now (I actually used to walk 5 miles to my local comic book store every week as a young teenager). wolfy42 posted... 3mph is considered average walking speed. If you have a decent stride and walk fast, you can double that easily, and maintain it for a very long time. And this is your problem. If you are walking "double" average walking speed, you aren't actually "walking". And you definitely aren't walking "slowly". What you're basically doing is "striding". If you like, you could also refer to it as "walking fast", "walking at a brisk pace", or even "trotting". But you aren't walking slow. 6mph is actually the peak of what is considered human walking speed. If you're moving faster than that, you aren't walking. And that pace is very difficult for most human beings to "maintain it for a very long time". If you don't believe me, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_walking_speed To use a horse analogy, you're trotting but you're claiming to be walking, which are two different things. No, you aren't up to a cantor (jogging) yet, and you're definitely not at a gallop (running), but you're not really "walking slow" either. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:882847213] in Would you ... [t:75558561]...</cite> <quote><cite>Flyingpirate posted...</cite> <quote>Thats it eh? 1 mile? In Canada thats considered a quick stop to the corner store or Tim Hortons. I guess America is more urban. I used to jog 8 miles to the gym through snow. 4 miles uphill to work. 4 Miles downhill nowadays. Going down hill is annoying, I should sled down or something.</quote> Depends on where you live. There are places where you basically have to drive 30 minutes just to get to your local grocery store, whereas other people can get to pretty much every single store they'd ever need in their entire life within 30 minutes. People here have mentioned having to drive more than an hour to go to the movies, I can get there in 15 minutes. Conversely, I don't actually have anything worth seeing or walking to within 1 mile of my house, so I walk almost nowhere. Whereas people who live in NYC might be able to live their entire lives within a 1-2 mile span of area. Age is also a factor. I'd have been a lot more willing to walk a mile to get somewhere 20 years ago than I am now (I actually used to walk 5 miles to my local comic book store every week as a young teenager). <cite>wolfy42 posted...</cite> <quote>3mph is considered average walking speed. If you have a decent stride and walk fast, you can double that easily, and maintain it for a very long time.</quote> And this is your problem. If you are walking "double" average walking speed, you aren't actually "walking". And you definitely aren't walking "slowly". What you're basically doing is "striding". If you like, you could also refer to it as "walking fast", "walking at a brisk pace", or even "trotting". But you aren't walking slow. 6mph is actually the peak of what is considered human walking speed. If you're moving faster than that, you aren't walking. And that pace is very difficult for most human beings to "maintain it for a very long time". If you don't believe me, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_walking_speed To use a horse analogy, you're trotting but you're claiming to be walking, which are two different things. No, you aren't up to a cantor (jogging) yet, and you're definitely not at a gallop (running), but you're not really "walking slow" either. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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