Could you easily walk 10k

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Would you need to train?

Would you struggle at all to walk it (say within two hours)

Would you ache or hurt the next day?

His is general terrain, nothing difficult or unusual about it.

It depends on your level of fitness I'd say. I'm very unfit at the moment - have had a year with a serious health problem and been unable to do much walking or exercise of any kind, so atm I would find that a challenging walk and I would probably be achy the next day.

In normal circumstances(I'm not a superfit person but I normally walk and swim quite a lot) I would find that a walk I could do in a couple of hours at a very leisurely pace, with no ill effects. (I say this as a 60 yr old of average fitness)

Yes, and I do any day I’m in the office. I find I need a little extra carbohydrate or less insulin, but other than that I barely notice.

10k mountain climbing would be different I imagine.

Yes, easily, and often do.

I'd have to do a bit of training to run any kind of distance, though, even a puny 5k. I love walking but am crap at any kind of high impact exercise.

Verily1 sure there's always another excuse reason for not doing a perfectly normal and simple activity such as walking.

The only time I couldn't have done that was when heavily pregnant. The most I could manage was about 2.5 miles. It felt very odd somehow to struggle with a distance that I would walk most days without thinking about it when not pregnant, even though logically of course I knew why.

I could run it in 50min on flat tarmac, and about 1h10 if it was hilly trail terrain.

I know plenty of people who would struggle with it, and they definitley aren't all overweight or massively unfit - just unused to walking longer distance.

Yes easily and have done it within 2 hours even while heavily pregnant.

Interesting to read how RA effects you walking so much in everyday life. Ironic that those of us with RA need to keep mobile but it’s too painful to do.

@feelingverylazytoday You must do a lot of riding as well - up there, on your high horse...

I could walk it but due to arthritis I would probably need to go slow at times, and maybe prefer to have a break in the middle. Weather and terrain would make a difference too. So, not sure how long it would take at the moment.

On holidays we often do much more than that but thats over the day and with breaks.

My doctor once told me that all working-age adults should be able to run 5km, albeit at their own pace.
I am at the top edge of the healthy BMI and don't do massive amounts of exercise, but I could easily do a 10km walk.
According to my phone, I did 23km one day this summer - part of which was pretty steep

The British Heart Foundation states that 'an average walking pace on country and forestry footpaths is 20 minutes per mile (3 miles per hour)' so 10k in 2 hours is slightly above average.

My doctor once told me that all working-age adults should be able to run 5km

I assume your doctor does know about working age adults who have medical and/or other health conditions which would make this difficult, or even impossible, for some working age adults.

It's a 3 mile round trip to ds's preschool. I do it twice a day 5 days a week during term time. We live in a village at the bottom of the cliffs and his preschool is in the next village at the top. I'm definitely finding it's getting easier and easier although the journeys without ds just pushing dd in the pram tend to go a lot faster than those with ds walking too.

Dh couldn't though as he's currently waiting for a surgery to fix a hernia and finds standing painful at the minute.

10k in 2 hours is slightly above average

But it's not 'quite brisk' as someone said above. I walk at what I consider a normal/average pace that's far from brisk and usually beat google maps walking times, which are based on 3 miles per hour, by some margin and I'm not very fit - I can't run 5 km for example.

Everyone who has said that it should be easily doable without training has added the caveat 'for people with no health or mobility problems', so it has been recognised that we are only talking about people with good health.

Barbara - my second comment was referring to the quote, which I had emboldened at the start, by the poster above me (paap1975) by her doctor.

Yes, quite easily - as long as it was on the flat or only very gentle inclines - and as long as it wasn't at dh's habitual route-march pace. Would not expect to ache at all.
And I am fairly ancient now.

The only time I couldn't have done that was when heavily pregnant. The most I could manage was about 2.5 miles.

My range when heavily pregnant was limited by bladder capacity so time not distance. I could do the loop near Bolton abbey from the loos to Barden Bridge and back the other side, which apparently is 7.5 km miles of easy terrain, for which they say to allow 2.5 hours but I'm pretty sure I'd have needed to up the pace a bit from that! (yes, I had an easy pregnancy!)

I would be stiff the next day & would certainly have some pain in one of my knees but I could certainly do it without too much trouble

I could easily, as long as the terrain isn't all uphill!

10km is ~6miles. Most adults can sustain a walking pace of 4mph, so that's only 1 and a half hours. That's one good dog walk and very doable for the majority of people.

If the terrain is easy, and assuming you're not competing for fastest time, I'd say you probably wouldn't have to train to do it.

Just a note to say 10,000 steps is not 10km in distance.

The 10k walk is 10km in distance, all in one go. This is quite different to 10,000 steps, or even 10km waking throughout the day.

Sounds like a nice day out.

My feet might hurt a bit if it was say a day out in London on pavements wearing normal shoes, but a walk in the countryside in trainers on grass and a maybe a picnic break half way sounds like a normal weekend.

Oh come on, Verily1, you keep moving the goalposts!

If you wanted to ask How do you find the time if you commute an hour each way which must always be by car and struggle to walk long distances then you should have asked that in the first place and not a series of different questions.

I'm going to assume the goalposts will next move to Verily1 asking

How do you find the time if you commute an hour each way which must always be by car and struggle to walk long distances AND you can't park the car any distance from the office AND you don't want to go outside after dark AND you never get a lunch break ??

If it were me, b/c exercise is important to me, I would look at

spinning (turbo trainer at home if I'm too scared to go out at night, or Zwift, or at gym if can brave the dark)
swimming (if I'm brave enough to drive in the dark to the pool)
rowing machine (could do at home, or at a gym)

I'm waiting for Verily to add... AND you have no legs AND you get a terrible skin rash if you sweat AND you have a phobia of the water AND you can't afford a rowing machine AND your internet connection is bust so you can't read about the 7 minute workout AND really you'd just like to eat Jaffa cakes while watching Corrie instead...

again no problem, all you need is a chatty partner...much better than headphones and a playlist.
are you expecting this to be difficult for most?

Not any more . I broke a leg two years ago and my ankle was in a cast for so long it stiffened up. It's still not right and periodically aches when I walk.

I ought to speak to my doctor about it, but I'm pessimistic anything would even be done.