To never go for a walk again for the rest of my born days?

[Sheeeeeep]

Never ever ever.

Weekends and holidays will be spent doing anything that does not involve Going For A Walk.

AIBU?

My dd, 4, says oooh shall we go for a lovely walk today? Every morning! It’s so sweet. Even when it’s raining she’ll say let’s make sure we’ve got our coats on. My dog doesn’t complain either! I started the park years 16 years ago with my now teens and last dog and it looks like they’re continuing for many years to come! Luckily I do like them, but looking forward to doing other things as well!

YANBU, fuck walks. See also: going to the park.

I will probably backtrack on this and get back to hiking at some point, and maybe even start appreciating my local countryside again after rage-trudging round it every day for the last 14 months, but for now I am seriously fed up of them. Set off today with cheerful happy children in the sunshine, returned an hour later in the snow carrying a raging toddler under one arm.

I like a walk on the following conditions:

I am alone
I have earphones
I have travelled to a nice place that is not the bastard park and is as far away from my home as i choose

I haven’t been on a single walk since lockdown aside from going on a friends dog walk once.
I used to have dogs and have lived in the area for ever, so have done all the walks to death anyway .
Everywhere in my semi rural area looks like Oxford street at the moment. Everyone with a dog looks stressed as it’s impossible to walk them properly off the lead and lots of performance parenting. Grim.

People with nothing else to do

Oh come on, that's been everybody for the past year. One could argue you're the one with limited hobbies and interests if being locked down made no difference to you.

Agree littering is disgusting and antisocial, though.

I quite a like a nice walk around the streets where I live, especially as it's always uplifting to see the trees now in blossom.
I like walking in the evening now about 7 or 8, as it seems such an improvement of a few weeks ago when it was dark.
I am always very careful to have a break of at least 72 hours on the sofa between walks, mind.

I’m actually planning to go for more walks. We live in an AONB and I have discovered new walks in the last year, some from my back door. It’s when I do most of my chatting to DS (6) and I love that time together. We saw galloping wild ponies at very close range today - we were both thrilled.

Up to you, but we've been for a walk almost every day for a year and have just booked two week-long walking holidays for later on

And we will have a walk around our local town one evening this week to see what’s open. As far as I can tell our Council have taken a very positive approach to restaurants requesting to open in outside space and on the pavement from Monday.

I have always been a keen walker but I agree.... I know every single house within a five mile radius. Every pair of curtains, every garden ornament, every bit of hedge trimming.... aaagggh!

And country walks - full of people! It has dropped off a bit now, but the number of people tromping along like zombies was weird in the extreme.

I have actually learnt to like walking since January. Since Jan 1st I have either walked or run every day (and when the weather was really horrible, done an indoor bike ride). Walking is great for all round fitness. So I am afraid that I will continue to get in the way of dog walkers, but I do that when I am out running anyway.

I like a walk, but not when everyone else is !

I’m actually a bit pissed off that you’ve decided that because I don’t want to go for a walk I throw shit all over the place pictish

I like a walk. Haven't overdone it this year as Ive not been furloughed or working from home, but have found a few new local routes.
It will be nice to get get a bit more variety into the walks though, with some pub lunches or a mooch about the shops thrown in.

I’ve found myself using walk in weird ways ‘I’m walking with Anne this evening and walking with Peter on Tuesday’. I am both weirdly addicted to walking and also so fed up of them. Stockholm syndrome for walking.

Nah, I still love walking, and actually I think I've come to enjoy it even more now that I'm doing it more regularly. And the thing about almost everything else on your list is that it all costs money. I have no problem spending money on activities, but I find that keeping kids regularly outside and active and entertained over the course of a whole school holiday without a sizeable amount of walking is seriously expensive!

I love going for a walk, it's one of life's great pleasures.

One could argue you're the one with limited hobbies and interests if being locked down made no difference to you

It has made a difference but query whether a negative difference. I go swimming weekly. I don't love it, I do it because it's good for me. But now I wonder if I need it. Anyway adult lessons don't restart until 17th May so I've got time to decide if I will go back. I haven't missed it at all.

I walk miles with my dog because she needs it and seeing her sniffing and chasing the breeze gives me pleasure. But I'll be glad when the lockdown only walkers head back to their usual pastimes and leave the woods and river sides to me :)

And I will be happy when a good afternoon walk can end somewhere where I can getn a meal and use the loo!!!!

You’re very much going against current research on health and longevity here.

I love going for walks. Only prob is I have a lazy OH and a toddler

@Sheeeeeep

What will I DO?

The zoo, the farm, swimming, shopping, go to the pub, a cafe, a restaurant, go to the gym, the fair, theme parks, flying lessons, scuba diving, concerts, horse riding, coffee, hairdressers, get my nails done, soft play, play dates ...

Surely all of those involve walking 🤔

@1AngelicFruitCake. She’s nearly 17 😊. I’ve worked full time in the office throughout, my weekends have been spent doing the usual cooking, cleaning, relaxing. I do garden a lot though. But no walks (unless you count walking from the car to the butchers or chemist). We have not been for a ‘walk’ walk, never did before, see no need to now.

I have gone from someone who only went for the odd walk in to woods with the children at the weekend and working out in a gym or running
To...

Someone who does a looonnng walk every day without fail and has fallen in love with online workout videos.

The pandemic has been really positive for me in the sense of opening up how wonderful walking is and that exercise needn’t be hardcore gym/running

Surely all of those involve walking 🤔

Yes but they are not just solely going for a walk. An activity that involves walking is very different to simply going on a walk with no purpose to it.