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.

PS: To be clear, I probably could walk the distance, but my ankle would be really sore by the end of it and my walking speed now is a lot slower than it was pre-injury.

@lljkk are you aware of the multiple studies that prove that being a gigantic cunt to people isn’t the best way to motivate them to do more exercise or lose weight?

I walk slightly more than that say least once a week pushing a buggy, I've still not lost my baby weight (en route seaside ice-cream not helping), it's just a longish walk to me. 5k is my short walk, we live about a mile and a half from town and rarely take the car unless the weather is bad.

I'm 65 and can do it easily in just under two hours as long as it's flattish.

I could do it without too much trouble, because I’m a non-driving Londoner, but I’d feel the effect the next day, because it’s more exercise than I normally do. Because it would be on top of whatever else I was doing for the day + getting to the venue and back it would probably end up as a 20K steps day which is rare for me.

I can see that middle-aged women who have sedentary jobs, commute by car, and don’t do much structured exercise might find it sensible to do some practice walks beforehand.

I often walk 10k, am 60 and have never been to a gym. But I do it at my own pace, more of an ambling rambler. Yes, within 2 hours unless I get distracted.

Can I point out that the average infantry soldier is carrying between 70-110 of equipment as well? So 3k an hour is good.
I’m much slower if carrying a picnic.

Yes, you would be able to manage it but if you dont frequently exercise i should imagine you would feel it a day/ 2 days after doing it!

I could easily walk 10km even in mountainous terrain (but then I do live in mountainous terrain). I'd do it in about 1.5 hours unless it was excessively hilly. My feet only get sore when I'm approaching the 4 hours without a break mark :) Could I run it? Lol hell no. But walking is no trouble.

the average human walking pace is 3-4 mph which tends to slow as we get older, another crucial factor is pace length if you are shorter it is more paces per mile which is why small children seem to walk slower as they have to do 2 steps to every adult one but actually their legs may be moving as faster they just cover less ground by friend as a much taller DH with long legs she was always complaining she had to almost run to keep up so they measured it by the time he has done 20 steps he is 4 metres ahead as most people walk 100 steps a minute within 1 minute just taking the same number of steps he is 20 metres ahead but she is actually walking just as fast as him it just doesn't look like it so to keep up distance wise she has to walk 20% faster it is much easier for someone 6' to walk 4 mph than for someone 5', this is why the 10,000 steps target is much better than an actual distance
at walking pace stride length is about 42% of height so a 5' person takes about 2557 steps per mile compared to 6' person taking 2095 steps per mile ie shorter person is taking about 21% more steps per mile a 3 year old at only 3' tall would need to take 4,190 steps to do a mile so roughly twice as many steps as their 6' dad so a toddler really does need to run to keep up with a adult walking normally

@TeacupDrama ...and breathe... !

To all those saying value your health and don’t be smug, I completely get it. I went from being super fit and ever trim at 40 to having a few awful years healthwise and being super unfit, overweight and unable to get fit in my late forties.

I turned a corner a couple of years ago, moved house and built in being able to walk in that decision. Just that had a massive impact on being able to get back on track but how many people can do that? Everything lined up. I got a job in the same town as DC’s secondary school and moved within a mile of that and work. A new treatment improved my health condition. It just felt like I got a bit lucky.

Never acceptable for anyone to be arsey or smug (which is definitely a contributing factor to the the end of my marriage to a judgemental part of a man who was just as fit in his fifties as he was in his twenties).

@Dyrne, is it my job or place to motivate people to do exercise?

Verily implied that I was out of order for suggestion a long cycle ride to someone who struggles to walk. Except she didn't mention anyone struggling to walk before that. Am I supposed to assume everyone struggles to walk, or just know all backstories of posters. British mind-reading expectations reaches a new level.

To be honest I don’t know what half of the people posting here are meant to be achieving - there’s a distinct undertone of “I’m better than you” in a lot of posts. The OP posted looking down their nose at colleagues that thought they would want to train for a 10K walk - i’m not sure why people wanting to increase their fitness levels need to be mocked.

Not exercising doesn’t make someone a bad person, despite what some people seem to think...

I can't. Sadly. It hurts all over.