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Yes, but in my experience the quality of your socks matters much more. A single wrinkle is gonna give you a nice blister within 5km. Get nice socks and pack blister bandages. Those things are like magic.
Are there any socks you recommend? I've had good luck with Darn Tough socks, but I'd be interested in something better if available.
Lately I've been walking 20 km per day (~12.5 mi). Takes at least 3.5 hours. I try not to listen to any audio -- I just let my mind wander. To step it up a notch, I put on a weighted backpack (i.e. ruck). I'm typically carrying 30 lbs, sometimes 50. This raises the heart rate and roughly doubles the caloric burn. Low injury risk, too. Michael Easter's book "Comfort Crisis" has a nice chapter on rucking. I just wish i…
Cause I started when I was 130 kg and now I'm 90-100 kg and I measured calories in and how much I walked, and calculated the calories burned/km walked depending on weight and it's basically linear for me (roughly 60 kcal/km at 100 kg). It would be very weird if just 30 kg doubled the caloric burn, maybe the speed makes the difference?
At any rate I agree it's great, it completely changed my life. It's very hard to be frustrated after a 5-hour walk.
I don't know about creative thinking ... but consistent walking sure as hell helped jump-start my running life. Here's my little story. I'm 37 and was never a runner, but last October a friend dragged me out for a run. We ran a 5K straight-up (at ~6m:30s/KM). It's not a "couch to 5K", as I'm lean and bicycle a lot ("zone 2" cardio) as part of my daily life, eat healthy, and put in many walks and some hikes over the p…
I know I can't run. Never could. My lungs just close up after even a short run and the rest of my body promptly follows.
I could walk though but despite walking few kilometers each day this summer best I could do was squeeze a minute or two of running into my walking.
And even walking ended when my feet arches began to hurt from overuse. Since then I stopped walking regularly and switched to 'barefoot' shoes and my left foot pretty much healed but the overuse injury in the right one pops back up when I walk for about an hour. I am not overweight and have high feet arches.
I don't know about creative thinking ... but consistent walking sure as hell helped jump-start my running life. Here's my little story. I'm 37 and was never a runner, but last October a friend dragged me out for a run. We ran a 5K straight-up (at ~6m:30s/KM). It's not a "couch to 5K", as I'm lean and bicycle a lot ("zone 2" cardio) as part of my daily life, eat healthy, and put in many walks and some hikes over the p…
Lately I've been walking 20 km per day (~12.5 mi). Takes at least 3.5 hours. I try not to listen to any audio -- I just let my mind wander. To step it up a notch, I put on a weighted backpack (i.e. ruck). I'm typically carrying 30 lbs, sometimes 50. This raises the heart rate and roughly doubles the caloric burn. Low injury risk, too. Michael Easter's book "Comfort Crisis" has a nice chapter on rucking. I just wish i…
I don't know about creative thinking ... but consistent walking sure as hell helped jump-start my running life. Here's my little story. I'm 37 and was never a runner, but last October a friend dragged me out for a run. We ran a 5K straight-up (at ~6m:30s/KM). It's not a "couch to 5K", as I'm lean and bicycle a lot ("zone 2" cardio) as part of my daily life, eat healthy, and put in many walks and some hikes over the p…
Inspiring! I am on a similar journey as well. I haven't heard the term "zone 2" cardio -- can you expand on that?
Zone 2 is your easy pace. The pace you do most of your running at. It's not so fast where you need much recovery but it's fast enough to achieve the adaptations you need.
Here's part of a talk by famed running coach Jack Daniels on the benefits of easy running: https://youtu.be/veAQ73OJdwY
It's not the walking itself, it's just that walking gets you away from other people
I don't know about creative thinking ... but consistent walking sure as hell helped jump-start my running life. Here's my little story. I'm 37 and was never a runner, but last October a friend dragged me out for a run. We ran a 5K straight-up (at ~6m:30s/KM). It's not a "couch to 5K", as I'm lean and bicycle a lot ("zone 2" cardio) as part of my daily life, eat healthy, and put in many walks and some hikes over the p…
Jesus. I thought breaking 3 was crushing it for amateurs. Congrats. What sort of training do you do to progress? I’m relatively fit (swim/ride/squash) but haven’t run much for a long time. Now doing 1-2 10ks a week but no idea how to move further
I listen to audiobooks while walking and it makes it easier to focus and overall more enjoyable. I also discovered that human memory is weird as heck. When I walk my mind is somehow mapping my physical location in the world to the content, down to the sentence. If I rewind an audio book I can fairly often remember where exactly I heard a particular sentence. The precise street corner or park trail I was on, to like a…
Would be really interesting to have some kind of tool that automatically laid out some information you want to learn in a 3D virtual environment. Imagine if you could just tell this system you want to study a certain book, and it automatically generates a fitting virtual world for it. A kind of instant mind palace.
I predict that there will be one class of PIM & note-taking applications working exactly that way in a near future, with a strong spatial component. Outliners and file systems provide that effect in some way, attaching certain thoughts and topics to specific points in a hierarchical tree.
With augmented reality systems and AI image creation applied to note-taking, the system could easily generate images related to the topic for each cluster of notes, so that you can remember where some ideas are placed by the outlook associated to them. An instant VR mind palace, so to speak.
I don't know about creative thinking ... but consistent walking sure as hell helped jump-start my running life. Here's my little story. I'm 37 and was never a runner, but last October a friend dragged me out for a run. We ran a 5K straight-up (at ~6m:30s/KM). It's not a "couch to 5K", as I'm lean and bicycle a lot ("zone 2" cardio) as part of my daily life, eat healthy, and put in many walks and some hikes over the p…
Inspiring! I am on a similar journey as well. I haven't heard the term "zone 2" cardio -- can you expand on that?
If you don't believe in formulas, run at a pace in which you can hold a conversation or speak a few sentences without losing your breath.