what's the farthest you have ever walked?

Back in the early 90s when I was just a year out of college I went for a really long walk unintentionally. Had to get my car repaired one day. Unfortunately due to:

-screw ups by the dealer (told me it was ready when it wasn't),

-complete lack of money to afford a cab,

-the fact that back then nobody had cell phones

-the fact that I was dressed in work clothes and it was too hot to run

I ended up walking 20 miles that afternoon/evening

All I can say is it's a lot nicer to be able to run that distance.

I have walked the face of the Earth.

Probably about 23 miles during a long day of backpacking. Nothing quite like like hiking from sunup to sundown while hauling 40-50 pounds on the back.

Northern Mass to the the CT border, 40ish miles? I dunno. I attempted to walk to FLA, but was returned to my home after an incident with an Arby's employee. Fck you Arby's.

-themack

The Israeli Paratroops have a Red Beret ceremony at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem, and tradition has it that you walk in full gear for 120 Kilometres (74.5 miles)(Some units of the paratroops do only 86 kilometers as they have their ceremony at Ammunition Hill which was conquered in 1967)

This was not the hardest walk we did, which was only 70 Kilometers (43.5) miles in brutal heat and most of it a near run (I think all of us would have been DQed for lifting)By the end, we looked worse than Gabi Andersen-Schiess who wobbbled and weaved her way to the finish of the 1984 Olympic Marathon. When the officer gave us the Beret, he also punched you in the chest, not sure why ;-)

Tell us what happened!

Not the longest but one of the hardest was 4.5 miles with weapon ,full ammo 45lb ruck cross country avoiding roads at night(land navigation course),evading detection. targeting to get under an hour-the good guys did it around 50 minutes.

Not walking-spent 34 hours on my belly with bugs crawling up my piss soaked dick waiting for ONE shot at a red ballon the size of a human head(duh!) from 600 meters. Hint: Don't be fooled by the brown balloons.

4 hour walk from my friend's house to a running store to buy a new pair of shoes...walked back to that friend's house ran to the park did a workout ran back and got hammered....that was a great day

A friend and I went on a walk from a little Bolivian village called Sajama to go see some oasis. It was about 16 miles round trip, which was quite a haul for our 2nd day at 13,000 feet.

58 mile hike with a Polish guy named Charlie, starting at 2:00 AM and finishing around midnight. At the end I had to run 2 bonus miles to go get our truck from where we'd left it.

Mine was a 22 mile round-trip hike to the top of Mt. Whitney in the summer of 2004.

I commend you for finding ways of still being active though you can't run. Walking is not gay. It's the 1st cousin of running. I hope your joint disease gets "better" or lessens in pain or worsening.

Enjoy the great outdoors.

Godsped.

My boots are made for walking !!

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Several 50k's (and anybody who saw me would know I wasn't *really* racewalking--also, my best time was 'way over five hours).

With miscellaneous walking before and after the race, had to have gotten at least 35 miles on most of those days, maybe hit 40 once.

In contrast to the OP, I have only once--maybe--gotten the same kind of pleasure from walking that I routinely got from running. (I, too, am a permanent running-cripple.) I do it--generally average 5-6 miles a day--but I don't particularly enjoy it. And it takes forever.

themack wrote:

Northern Mass to the the CT border, 40ish miles? I dunno. I attempted to walk to FLA, but was returned to my home after an incident with an Arby's employee. Fck you Arby's.

-themack

dude, you can not leave us hanging...

When the buses were on strike a couple of years ago I had to walk 2 blocks to the Taco - man that was some hike.

I say: That prick shouldn't have brought me food with a finger nail in it, twice.

Police Report says: Subject became disruptive over food quality. The meal order was not corrected to his liking, provoking an incident that involved striking and receiving strikes from the accompanying waiter. The encounter last approximately fifteen minutes.

b!tches.

-themack

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.