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?

I am so excited for people to get back to their usual activities so that the fields round here empty out of zombie walkers

I would rather go for a walk than do all the other things you mention, I find walking much nicer than going shopping or going to the hair dressers, hate the cinema or going bowling, I’m looking forward to eating out but other than that I will still be walking 🤣.

Yanbu. I can't even read the phrase without almost dissolving into a puddle of ennui.

@Moolan

I am so excited for people to get back to their usual activities so that the fields round here empty out of zombie walkers

Same, all my quiet walking spots are no longer quiet, I’m hoping after tomorrow I can walk without seeing lots of people.

I can’t believe how many enthusiastic walkers there are! I hate it

@BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand. Working, running a home, gardening, looking after ageing MIL, lots of baking, too much telly, reading, cross stitch, church stuff (not in person) and decorating. Just not walking.

I hear you!!

I will cut down the next person that suggests going for a walk as some form of entertainment with a blunt rusty spoon. A spoon a tell you!!!

I will be happy to go for a walk that does not start or end in my local council area ( Scotland). I'll be happy to go on a walk that ends up at a lovely pub with a warming fire and hot food, or a cafe with homemade soup and toasties.

But I am so fed up with local walks. As we have a dog they were a bit of a mainstay of our pre covid-life and now it's just like Groundhog day, and the bloody bacon roll van at the golf club which is a highlight of the Sunday walk ( thus distinguishing it from other days of the week)was closed today .

I started walking because there was nothing else to do, but I like it now and want to carry on even when the other things start up again.
Will this annoy the real walkers who hoped I'd soon stop taking up walking space?
Or does this mean I am a real walker myself now and should spend the rest of lockdown being annoyed at other people walking?

I absolutely bloody love walking. It saves my mental health!
But yanbu. Totally understand why people are off it!!
It will be amazing to do other things!

Never again will I be persuaded to go for another walk just for the sake of it.

What with having flat feet, tight achilles, a dodgy cartilage in one knee and a snapped ligament in the other, the activity of 'Going for a Walk' is neither comfortable nor enjoyable.

We've got a dog so no choice! Although we live in an area that once you have walked about half a mile from the car park you tend to only see serious walkers

I am looking forward to being able to go for my walks without encountering a gazillion people who clearly aren’t used to walking and appropriate behaviour like closing gates and not feeding packets of biscuits to the horses!

I may only walk if there is a pub or two en route!

[quote Bagamoyo1]@1AngelicFruitCake

I haven’t been for a walk either. I run, which I’ve carried on doing. My kids have played football at the park. If I suggested a walk I’d get a straight no![/quote]
😄 yes but you’ve been active outside so even if it isn’t a walk, you’ve got your children out. We’ve been on lots of walks, scooter rides, bike rides and endless parks.
Parks are lovely now but on a bleak afternoon in January 🥶

I read a thread a few years ago where a poster admitted resenting ‘fair weather park users’ and it made me smile and I sort of feel the same (even though it makes no sense to!) There’s me who visits parks no matter the weather, pushing a child on a swing when your fingers are numb and jogging on the spot whilst smiling in response to ‘look at me!’ again. These nice weather park users swan in but they’ll dump the park when the cold weather comes back. I think you can tell I’ve had many hours at various parks contemplating all this! 😄

I love walking, but I'd really like to be able to drive to places in our area and do walks from them without feeling I'm going to be interrogated by the police or glared at by locals. I'm sick of pounding the streets of the town.

I've actually enjoyed walking more with DH and discovering new walks locally. In fact, we've booked a few days away with a view to country walks if the weather is suitable.

I've got my second vaccination about 12 miles away. DH is going to come with me this time, we'll grab a takeaway coffee straight after and there's a local country park with walks which we're going to try for the first time.

I guess we're all different though.

I can't wait for my nice peaceful walks down the canal towpath to be nice and peaceful again.
I love walking and will be delighted to start doing it again once all the lockdown walkers, runners, cyclists, daily exercise folk and family meet up groups have all gone back to their usual activities.

If anyone is having a ceremonial burning of their walking kit please let me know, I could do with a small 15 litre daypack....and some replacement walking poles.....I actually really like walking and am planning to do the Tarka Trail, but I appreciate that not everyone thinks like me. It does help if there’s a nice pub partway round that DH and I can have a meal and a pint at....

I live in the Lake District and fell walking is one of my hobbies and even I'm fucking sick of walking

I normally quite like walking. I even spent years in a walking club and do trail running, but bloody hell, having it as about the only way to exercise/ get out/ socialise for a very significany portion of the past year, especially Nov-March when the mud set in, twice as bad anf earlier than usual because of the quantity of footfall, it did turn into a tedious chore.

Between the mud, pavement pounding and any half plesant path being packed out with slow plodders making it tough to move at any half decent place, we started going to the city centre to walk late afternoon for the quietness and change of scenery

Fortunately my DCs are of an age where I can get a decent amount of walking out of them and the absence of anything else to do trained them up well, so we probably will keep the habit up when there's nothing else on, but it will be great when there is more variety of things to do.

I'm also looking forwards to people being everywhere else doing things they enjoy more.

I am very much looking forward to the people who don't normally walk fucking back off to their hairdressers, nail bars, gyms or whatever so I can get some peace on my walks. I am utterly sick of encountering hideous middle clarse parenting every time I set foot on a hill. "Oh look, darling, a pretty tree", "Tobias, do put that stick down", "Let's all look for a Gruffalo REALLY LOUDLY just in case anyone hasn't witnessed me being an ace outdoor mummy". Just fuck off back to the trampoline centre or wherever you used to go.

@Lansonmaid

If anyone is having a ceremonial burning of their walking kit please let me know, I could do with a small 15 litre daypack....and some replacement walking poles.....I actually really like walking and am planning to do the Tarka Trail, but I appreciate that not everyone thinks like me. It does help if there’s a nice pub partway round that DH and I can have a meal and a pint at....

I don't have walking poles, sorry. And you wouldn't want my kit, it's all old and pretty well used...like I said, I used to really like doing this before it became the only sodding thing to do for a year. Absolutely done with it now. Can't wait to light the whole lot on fire.

I quite like a walk, when I have the freedom to choose what form of exercise I'm going to take. It usually involves a drive to get somewhere nice though.

Going For A Walk around my local streets isn't something I'll carry on doing though. I've walked and run around my small town so much I'm sick of it.

We're upgrading to Going For A Hike now though, in preparation for a yomp up Snowdon in the summer (all going well, fingers crossed etc etc). Going For A Hike means Equipment, which is always fun.

I can't be arsed with going for a sodding walk. I live in a beautiful place where people actually come on walking holidays too! I'm perfectly happy without that shit thanks! I appreciate it in my own way.