He had to walk a whole mile?
The other day I walked from our Boardwalk, over to Natural Bridges and then to Capitola Village.
Total distance? 18 miles
Views and quality of enjoyment - priceless
One mile. Pfffft! !!
Ummm...I had to walk a mile from grade school. This was because I had walked TO grade school a mile that morning. IN ADDITION, we walked home to go to lunch AND...walked back to school (no school lunch program back then. Heck, no school lunchroom, period). When I was a kid, very few people had two cars and probably only 50% of the moms could actually even drive a car. I will admit, this was done on sidewalks in a safe suburban neighborhood in flat-as-a-board Chicago. The snow might not have been three feet deep (and then came the winter), and the walks might not have been uphill both ways, but it was darned cold a few months every year...you couldn’t ride a bike to school until sixth grade, as I recall.
I noted at my grade school’s 40-year (no, really, 40-year) reunion that not a single classmate had experienced a heart attack, and with only a few unrelated and explainable exceptions (drug overdose, type I congenital diabetes), no one died. I believe that exercise and activity, especially when you are young, was probably a factor.
Young people today aren’t going to be getting much of THAT that behind an Xbox and being chauffeured around.
I can swim a mile (1750 yds) in 35 minutes ... not particularly fast, but respectable. I plod along like a diesel boat, loving every minute. I think an 18-mile walk would kick my butt!