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.

I could do it, but not in 2 hours.
Would be stiff next day probably.

Walking 6.25miles in 2 hours is a pretty brisk pace

Very brisk. The Army reckons trained infantry can do 3 miles in an hour.

3 miles an hour really isn't brisk, more of an average saunter. I'm sure the army expects infantry to move rather faster than that except maybe when carrying a lot if weight over hilly terrain.

I do rucking as exercise, which is carrying a weighted backpack while walking briskly and is based on military training. The expected walking pace is five miles an hour.

3 miles an hour is brisk walking or a slow jog imo.
not impossible, but when I walk that tempo I overtake loads of people.

A few years ago I'd have struggled however I realised my back was in a poor state, broken rib caused significant muscle issues and hyper mobile hips meant my frame wasn't well supportive - I would end up with a very sore back when walking, well not very far at all
Physio has sorted this out!
Pair of trainers and comfy trousers and it would be fine

Yes, no problem. Certainly anything up to ten miles is comfortable, in fact I did 13 straight off one time when I was quite unfit and more overweight, though was tired for the last two and we had stopped at the pub half way!

Now I have a dog my walking fitness is much better, and though I'm not running regularly I can run 3-4 miles comfortably (though it certainly makes my muscles ache if I'm not doing it regularly).

Even on days when I'm sitting down for work most of the day and someone else walked the dog, on my least active days I've walked 4 miles in the course of the day.

where do people who commute and do sedentary jobs find time to exercise?

I can build it in to my commute. 15 minutes brisk walk to the station. 25 minutes brisk walk across London. Same in reverse, and 20 minutes walk at lunch time. Easily >10k steps. Then I work from home two days a week and do a longer walk or run with the dog, and same at the weekend, so >15k steps.

My mom. Whose 65 does that daily with the dogs of moderate terrain in the woods. Takes under 2 hours.
I think if you do zero exercise at all you could do it still but might ache.
I'm unfit post baby and I managed 5 k 3 weeks post with a lot of stiches but I was very sore after. I can walk that with the buggy and often do 5 k walks just randomly to try and make him sleep! It's 1.5miles to my mom's and I walk there and back daily plus to playgroups.
If you want to do this 10k walk then you should.

^not sure how 10km is 6500 steps unless your 7ft tall with a long stride
im 5'3 and 10,000 steps is between 6-7 miles.^

A mile is about 2000 steps for me. I'm 5'7". So 10km is about 12 - 13,000 steps, and 10,000 steps is about 5 miles.

No I couldn't and wouldn't have been able to for years. I have a chronic illness that causes intense fatigue and at its worst a couple of years back I could barely walk a couple of hundred feet. I'm fairly young and it's an 'invisible' illness and I know when I was talking to friends about the race for life, they were very shocked when I said there's absolutely no way I could even walk that distance let alone run it - even though they know about the illness and its effects.
I have in the past done lots of walking and have been blindsided by how all-encompassing chronic illness can be and how much of you it steals. I can only echo the previous poster - if you can do it without thinking about it, enjoy and appreciate your good health!

where do people who commute and do sedentary jobs find time to exercise?

if you want to exercise you make time for it. or you replace part of your commute with it. I cycle to the train station and back. I could take the bus, but cycling is quicker (and cheaper). I don't have a car so any journey starts with walking or cycling.
I should do more weights, but that's another story...

I commute 20 miles to work... where do people who commute and do sedentary jobs find time to exercise?

Work is 17 miles away. I try to cycle at least one way several times a week, in decent weather & enough daylight. I'll switch to more swimming & running in winter, but can train+cycle as commute mode otherwise. I try to get out for a 20 minute or longer walk midday on work days (am lucky that near work are walkable places). I barely move at work, feel like my blood is congealing on work days that I don't get out for a walk.

The real luck is DH works nr home & PT, so he gets kids out most mornings, and he cooks tea.

Yep, my 73yo mum regularly walks further than that too

’ll change my question - where do people who commute and do sedentary jobs find time to exercise?

Park your car a mile from work (or home, but probably less practical) and walk the last bit, walk on your lunch break, get up and move around office (walk to other desks rather than email colleagues), go out for a walk or jog in the evenings (take kids too - on bikes /scooters - if necessary)

I do 10-15 miles a day, seven days a week. I work in a warehouse though which means five days of that is unavoidable anyway....over an eight hour shift you don't even notice it.

where do people who commute and do sedentary jobs find time to exercise

When I was commuting I had more exercise than I get now - 20 mins walk to station and then around 20 mins at the other end too, and the same in reverse. During the summer I cycled at my end, so it was less walking, but still not bad.

If you drive you could potentially park somewhere further away from the office than the office car park but it depends on your job (eg teachers don't want to carry a pile of heavy books for 10 minutes, say) and where you work, if you are on an isolated business park somewhere there might be nowhere to park and no pavements, either. But for lots of people it is possible to build into your day.

Walking is incredibly good for you. When I was walking a lot, at "grumpy commuter pace" which was about 4 miles an hour, my times for parkrun came down significantly! It is great low impact training for other sports.

Cycling is an option but you need to have a safe(ish) route to work.

I'm late 40's. 6 months ago I had two broken ankles and DVT. I'm 2.5 stone overweight with a BMI of 28. Yesterday I ran a nonstop 10k in 1hr 15.

Exempting serious medical issues or obesity most people wouldn't have any problem with that. Having said that the furthest some people walk is from their house to their car.

Yes, no problem. I have a big dog who needs lots of exercise. Also we live in Cumbria, so not much flat walking here.

I walk about 1500 steps each way to and from work and, go a walk at lunchtime, but would struggle to walk this in under 2 hours. You are getting fit people posting here as you can see by the amount who go running regularly or run half marathons.
And who gets young kids to go a long walk when they get home from work at 6 pm? I don't know anyone who do this. At the weekend yes, but during the week most of us who come home from a normal length working day are in make dinner, homework, bath and bed mode. There is no time for anything else.

Not all 10ks are the same! A flat 10k in Cambridgeshire is much easier than an off-path 10k in an up-and-down part of the Lake District.

Yes but I am able bodied and pretty fit.

I am not able bodied and pretty fit. I'm overweight and a couch potato. But I could walk a fairly flat or gently rolling 10k no problem. Ask me to climb Snowdon, though, and I'd be hurting the next day.

I did have a phase where I was suffering joint pain even on much shorter walks. It turned out I had a folic acid deficiency. My friend who has had a vitamin B12 deficiency was similar. So lots of joint pain at a younger age than it is usual could be a sign of something else that is wrong.

You are getting fit people posting here as you can see by the amount who go running regularly or run half marathons
I don't run at all, but I don't drive either, so walking is just part of my every day life, not something I do for 'exercise'. I'm pleased to know it is helping to keep me fit though, especially as I'm a fast walker.

Depends what your starting point is (no time to read all). I do 15 every morning with the dog, more at weekends but have been for some years. If you’re not used to it, you’ll manage, it’s not too far, but will probably have a few aches next day (or day after).

I'm definitely not pretty fit either, due to recent mental health issue I have only left the house twice on my own this year. Most days my steps don't reach 250.