To think I could walk to work and back in nicer weather?

[NapQueen]

New job is, according to Google maps, 2.3 miles away and the estimated walking time is 53mins.

It's a nice walk there, downhill to the riverside then along and up a little at the end. Obviously the walk home would be harder!

Anyone walk a distance like this?

Nb am hideously bad at cycling so that's a no go!

Oh yes, that's a nice easy walk as long as it#'s paved

I regularly used to walk 3.5 miles to work and back. Loved it.

Wear trainers. Invest in a nice rain jacket. If you have to carry things like a laptop to and from work then get a rucksack.

Tbh I haven't got the time to drive to work, it takes sooooo long. The traffic backs up and does what the British do best queing

Walking and I'm at my desk in 25 minutes, cycling takes 12 minutes. Driving takes 30 minutes - it's only 1.4 miles!

Others come from further afield and there journeys are about fine till they hit the town then it's 20 minutes if crawling along at 3mph.

Be better if they parked up out of town and walked the last mile

I walk 2.3 miles to work and back every day regardless of the weather, it takes exactly 36 minutes each way, think google have over estimated for very slow walkers, you could do it in far less than that.

The bus fares would cost me £3.20 a day so a decent saving and I get exercise.

I used to do this, go for it!

Let us know how your trial run walk goes, op.

I walked a mile to & from to work every day up until recently, did it in 17 mins including steep hills in both directions, and I'm not a fast walker at all . As pps have said, decent clothing & footwear make it easy in all weathers and health benefits all round are huge.

You really should try it skerry, would work wonders on that Monday morning mood of yours

I walk 3.5 miles each way to work in London
There is a bus if the weather is really grim, but I have bought myself a coat with a hood.
Other essential is a rucksack to put my handbag in, which has waist straps with pockets in (like a built in bumbag!), so my phone and keys can go into the pockets. Stops me walking at a wonky angle being weighed down with a bag on one shoulder

And good trainers with proper sports socks

In the summer, I wear a sports top to walk because my back gets sweaty!

Go for it. I sometimes walk/run to work and it is 15 miles away!

My children are 3 and 7 and we walk 2.5 miles to and home from their after school activity twice a week. It takes about 40-50 mins. It's easily doable in much less time for you. Just wear the right gear.

ivy yy, I can't be bothered to drive. Time spent scraping the windscreen in the winter, vitamin d time lost in the summer, petrol costs, traffic jams. 2 mile walk is so much easier.

I walk a 5 mile round trip 4 times a week to take toddler to gymnastics and swimming class and me to the gym twice a week (only just started this last two journeys 4 weeks ago) as I don't drive and public transport from where I live to the sports centre is sporadic. It is a nice walk when it dry but not so pleasant when it is lashing down with rain - even cold is bearable (sp?) if you wrap up warm - I think rain would be ok if you have decent waterproofs (I don't).

I see lots of people walking on my route, some of them going shorter distances, some of them obviously longer. I also see lots of runners. I used to be very fit and could have easily run that distance, but I'm not any more, which is a shame and something I'm determined to do something about. We have showers at work to encourage people who want to run and cycle.

Walking it is the most I can do at the moment, but it's building up my fitness. Plus it's a lovely walk, even in the cold and dark because it's so busy and there's so much to see. It would be a crime to waste it.

Like others have said, it hardly rains where I am - that's in London. The last day of heavy rain where I needed an umbrella was in the second week of January. But some people obviously travel under their own personal cloud.

It is lovely to see the changing seasons. Until recently it's been dark on my walk and there's a feeling of the world still being asleep, then I had a few weeks of seeing the sunrise and now it's light and the bulbs are coming up. Beats sitting in a car any day, especially when you then have to face a day sat at a desk. And I can't remember the last day I even needed an umbrella, the odd light shower which required no more than putting my hood up.

Sounds like a lovely start and finish to the working day.

I'm confused as I thought Skerry didn't work but now it seems she does????? It was her choice remember! (How lovely to be in the position of choice...

My teenagers do that walk to and from school every day. It's just, you know, normal round here. Sarfeast Lunnon.

People at work think I'm crazy because I walk approx half a mile home, takes me 15mins tops. Fair enough, we do a long nightshift but I'm young and able so think nothing of it really. They all live further out and drive in so it seems unfathomable to them.

Go for it OP

As others have said, Google grossly overestimates walking times. I'm not sure if they send out a Hobbit to do the practice run

Even in not so nice weather, a decent coat/hat/gloves/boots can make all the difference.

Walking does seem to have gone out of fashion for many though, and anything more than a 15 walk sends some people racing towards their cars.

I've found this blurry picture from 2012 I took on the way home from another office because I found walking in that place with all those other people to be so uplifting that I wanted to record it. Why would you take the tube if you could walk on that evening?

It doesn't matter that it's Westminster Bridge. It could be anywhere that makes you happy

I got rid of my car last summer and walk everywhere. I have 2 x 40 min round trip school runs a day plus any other trips to town I need. I regularly do over 20,000 steps in a day (my phone app counts).

Make sure your footwear is very comfortable, that's my tip.

I turned a tracker on, and it's just taken me 35m18s to cover 2.25 miles (c. 4k steps) urban.

I really thought this was a joke post! That is no distance at all, and I would walk it no question.

DC's primary school is 1.1 miles away and takes about 25 minutes to walk, so 2.2 miles there and back, and it's nothing. I wouldn't even consider that a "walk".

Having said that, often when DC go home with friends for tea and I walk and pick them up (similar distance to school usually), I get strange looks, and often offers of lifts back home. I wouldn't dream of using a car for a journey of that length, unless there was no pavement, or I needed to transport something bulky or heavy.

Actually it depends on your walking speed.

My last job and route was actually 3.8 miles and I could walk it fast in 58 minutes or 1 hour 19 minutes medium.

To be honest when I did walk all the way there I did a mixture of fast and medium. So would have taken me between 1 hour and 1 hour 5-10 minutes.

But a mile I can do in 20-25 minutes no problem.

So funny reading these replies - I walk everywhere and love it, literally that is my exercise for the day and I always feel so much better for it. I have friends who get the tube / bus to the gym to walk / jog on a treadmill and I just think do the walk not the transport and job done! Glad to see I am not alone as so many people I know think I am mad on the walking ha!

I found walking in that place with all those other people to be so uplifting that I wanted to record it.

limited, you and William Wordsworth! 'Earth has not anything to show more fair/Dull would he be of soul who could pass by/A sight so touching in its majesty.'

When I walk over London Bridge in the morning I am also moved to poetry - but TS Eliot.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.

It's quite pretty after dark though.