It wasn't me.
Yeah, but as I mentioned, I live atop a stern hill, while I do have to come back up...I get to go down in the morning...
I walk 3 miles to work and can do it in 40 mins if I listen to music and ignore everyone.
Stroking dogs , saying hello and listening to a podcast adds 10 minutes.
Everyone I meet is there because they want to be.
Well tail end of last year I started walking the 6 miles each way. About 3 miles across town then all empty back roads and a bit of farm track. Had just got bored of doing the same kind of roads on the bike. Took about 90 mins (didn't start doing both ways for a while), loads of blisters, enjoyed it but walking took too long. Running takes 50 mins each way or I'll extend along the coast for 2 hours in and train home. Then that spiralled into trail running and fell races.
Apart from a during a month of injuries I haven't ridden a bike since boxing day last year.
I used to do it, though 7 miles and hilly. (Edinburgh to Dalkeith).
But only did it one way (bus home, or out if walking home). Would do two journeys a week.
Did winter and summer.
I found it quite relaxing. You see more than if you're whizzing past on the bike.
Used to take me a couple of hours at least. I've got a dodgy knees, so no powerwalking for me!
Bob_summers
Apart from a during a month of injuries I haven’t ridden a bike since boxing day last year.
Pretty demoralising considering this is a biking forum.😁
But I would walk 5 miles
And I would walk 5 more
Just to be the man who walks 10 miles... 😉
This?
Cycle one way, walk the other? Next day reverse
Or could you walk in and get a lift back? That's what I do sometimes.
The average speed of an Olympic speed walker is 7.7 mph, so someone on this forum appears to be hiding their light under a bushel.
Pretty demoralising considering this is a biking forum
Supposedly.
I walk between two and three miles each way to work three days per week (work from different sites the other two). It’s a bit rubbish arriving to work piss wet through with nowhere to dry stuff at this time of year. Still prefer it to driving or cycling though. Lovely walking along the canal towpath in summer though.
Nothing to five miles each way might be tricky if you have any existing health issues.
I run 5 miles either way 3 time per week and that takes long enough. No way I'd want to walk it.
It's a bit too far to be sustainable. 3 hours out of your day, every day will soon become too much.
As others have said, maybe look at options for walking one way and cycling or getting some other form of transport the other. Or can you get a bus part of the way and walk the rest?
