For the past several years, I've adopted a regimen of walking 10 miles or more each day (20,000 steps on the pedometer). I get up at 5AM and walk four miles before breakfast. It takes me three hours a day of solid walking to get to the 10 mile minimum. People I tell this to think this is some kind of incredible achievement. But it's really nothing at all and people from an earlier era would scoff because not too long ago, it was normal for humans to be on their feet pretty much every waking moment and many people would walk 10 miles just to fetch water and food.
“For the past several years, I’ve adopted a regimen of walking 10 miles or more each day (20,000 steps on the pedometer). I get up at 5AM and walk four miles before breakfast. It takes me three hours a day of solid walking to get to the 10 mile minimum.”
Good for you. I found that 10,000 steps per day program on the internet. Taking into account my stride length, thats about 4.4 miles per/day. This past spring, I started the program, but tried to do too much too fast, and injured my left foot and ankle. (I`m 60 years old) When that healed, I made the same mistake again, that time hurting my right foot and ankle. Finally, I did things more gradually, and got up to 14, 500 steps per/day (about 6.3 miles) I would have liked to have gotten to 10 miles per/day, but the injuries set me way back. Now with the cold weather coming, I`m going to have to cut back and I won`t be able to walk nearly as much as i would like to.