My running days seem to be behind me now but I have recently taken up on competing against friends on the Samsung Health app for walking.
I managed to get my mileage for walking up to 90 miles in one week, roughly 320 miles in a month.
It made me wonder, are there detrimental effects to be considered from that walking and continuing to walk that sort of distance?
Through-hikers cover that kind of mileage for months on end. Apart from taking rest days when you need them and building up slowly, I don't see a problem with it.
~30 hrs per week / 100+ hrs per month on this activity alone. Does this impact your family/social life? ... your job?
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~30 hrs per week / 100+ hrs per month on this activity alone. Does this impact your family/social life? ... your job?
I walk about an hour at lunch, both of my 15-minute breaks and then an hour after dinner.
So far, no impacts upon any other aspects of my life. I joke to my co-workers who are also competing that it helps to be single because I can go walking out at 11 at night and not come home and be accused of having a mistress.
I usually walk 1 hr mornings -around 6-7km, and 30 mins pm, 3km-3.5km, so about, so about 60-70 km per week. I cannot race walk - those guys are around 7.5 per mile speed, my pace is around 14-15 mins per mile. Former 1.50.49 twenty miles runner, Finchley 20, April 1978.
Other sports include swimming, usually 1500m in pool, 35 mins, cycling -40m mins, and light dumb bells-3 kg, 30 mins per day.
Ironically, now spending more time training - 2hrs a day, compared to when I ran, rarely more than 1 hr a day average.
I usually walk 1 hr mornings -around 6-7km, and 30 mins pm, 3km-3.5km, so about, so about 60-70 km per week. I cannot race walk - those guys are around 7.5 per mile speed, my pace is around 14-15 mins per mile. Former 1.50.49 twenty miles runner, Finchley 20, April 1978.
Other sports include swimming, usually 1500m in pool, 35 mins, cycling -40m mins, and light dumb bells-3 kg, 30 mins per day.
Ironically, now spending more time training - 2hrs a day, compared to when I ran, rarely more than 1 hr a day average.