WALK HOW FAR?

Just of casual interest. I was just reading a portion of a book from about 1900.

NOT a fitness book, but, an essay written by a physician of the day.

Forget the surrounding verbiage....

"ask yourself -

Am I able to walk ten miles with ease?"

Got that? A physician of the day assumed an ordinary person would be able to walk 10 miles "with ease"!

Today we forget that, before the automobile, people DID walk everywhere, unless they had a horse or cart, and EVERYTHING, or nearly everything, was done by hand.

I pride myself at age 79 of being able to walk 3 miles. I know that I have, in my younger days, run 6 miles, and have done forced road marches in the army, but, walk 10 miles with ease... simply because that's how you get around?

Nope. Got it pretty easy, Coach... er... Drill Sergeant...

Donovan Baldwin