The term "walk" is from the Old English wealcan, or "to roll."
The difference between walking and running is that at least one foot is always on the ground when you walk.
As a youngster, Johann Sebastian Bach would walk 50 kilometres (31 miles) from his Lüneburg school to Hamburg to see J A Reincken, the organist perform. On another occasion he walked a mere 40 kilometers (25 miles) to Halle in the hope of meeting George Frideric Handel but arrived just after the composer had left the town by coach.
Scottish soldier Captain Robert Barclay-Allardice, (1779-1854) once walked 1000 miles in 1000 consecutive hours.. His remarkable walking feat was performed at Newmarket between June 1 and July 12, 1809, during which he walked 1 mile (1.6 km) in each of 1000 successive hours, to win an initial wager of 1000 guineas.
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was very fond of hill walking. On one occasion he walked 263 miles (423 kms) through the Scottish highlands in 8 days.
During a walking tour of Scotland, John Keats managed 600 miles in a month, always rising before dawn in order to complete 26 miles before noon.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes five people in the 18th and 19th century whose professions are given as "pedestrian". These include Mary McMullen "called the Female Pedestrian" whose "most common event" is said to be 92 miles (148 kms) in 24 hours.
On October 24, 1932 Plennie L. Wingo of Texas finished an 8,000 mile (13,000 km) backward walk from Santa Monica to Istanbul, Turkey. He remains the Guinness record holder for "greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism".
The difference between walking and running is that at least one foot is always on the ground when you walk.
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FAMOUS WALKERS
As a youngster, Johann Sebastian Bach would walk 50 kilometres (31 miles) from his Lüneburg school to Hamburg to see J A Reincken, the organist perform. On another occasion he walked a mere 40 kilometers (25 miles) to Halle in the hope of meeting George Frideric Handel but arrived just after the composer had left the town by coach.
Scottish soldier Captain Robert Barclay-Allardice, (1779-1854) once walked 1000 miles in 1000 consecutive hours.. His remarkable walking feat was performed at Newmarket between June 1 and July 12, 1809, during which he walked 1 mile (1.6 km) in each of 1000 successive hours, to win an initial wager of 1000 guineas.
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was very fond of hill walking. On one occasion he walked 263 miles (423 kms) through the Scottish highlands in 8 days.
During a walking tour of Scotland, John Keats managed 600 miles in a month, always rising before dawn in order to complete 26 miles before noon.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes five people in the 18th and 19th century whose professions are given as "pedestrian". These include Mary McMullen "called the Female Pedestrian" whose "most common event" is said to be 92 miles (148 kms) in 24 hours.
On October 24, 1932 Plennie L. Wingo of Texas finished an 8,000 mile (13,000 km) backward walk from Santa Monica to Istanbul, Turkey. He remains the Guinness record holder for "greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism".
Earl Schaffer became in 1948 the first person to walk the entire Appalachian Trail from end to end in one continuous hike. He avoided blisters by putting sand in his boots and wearing no socks until his feet toughened.
In 1987 Steven M Newman became the first man to walk solo around the world. The 15,000-mile trek took him four years and untold pairs of shoes to complete.
MJ Eberhart – AKA Nimblewill Nomad retired at 61 in 1993 and became a perpetual hiker. Over 15 years he walked over 34,000 miles (55,000 kilometres). He became the first known person to hike the entire Appalachian Range in North America, from Newfoundland to the Keys and more and more.
Canadian Jean Beliveau completed a 46,600-mile walk around the world in 2011 covering 47,000 miles and passing through 64 countries. It took the former neon-sign salesman 11 years and two months. Beliveau used up 54 pairs of shoes on the walk which was to promote peace and non-violence.
The general advice is to walk 6,000 steps a day to improve your health and 10,000 to lose weight.
A person would need to walk for seven hours to burn off a super-sized Coca Cola, chips, and a Big Mac.
The verb 'to walk' dates back to Old English and originally meant 'to roll' or 'go back and forth'. It could also mean 'to curl one's hair'. It came to be used mainly for moving around on foot from the 15th century onwards.
The word 'perambulator' first meant a person who walks, then a device for measuring distances, finally a baby carrier pushed by someone walking.
The term "Jaywalking" was invented by car companies in the early 1900’s to shift blame for accidents from motorists to pedestrians.
A walkabout is Australian Aboriginal English for a nomadic ritual excursion into the bush. The term was adopted in 1970, during tours by Queen Elizabeth II of Australia and New Zealand for informal public-relations walks by politicians and royalty.
Human babies are helpless because we walk upright. Walking upright requires a narrow pelvis, in which our large head/brain would get stuck during birth, so babies are born with a smaller head/brain that develops more after birth, compared to other mammals.
We swing our arms when we walk because it is the most efficient way to walk. By swinging our right arm with our left leg and our left arm with our right leg we conserve 26% more energy than by other methods such as hands at our side or left arm with left leg/right arm with right leg.
Men walk significantly slower when walking with a woman, but only when that woman is their romantic partner. If she's a friend or acquaintance they go at almost full speed.
On average we make 243 walking trips covering 198 miles in a year.
An average person takes 18,000 steps per day.
In an average lifetime, a person will walk a distance equal to three times round the equator.
In 1987 Steven M Newman became the first man to walk solo around the world. The 15,000-mile trek took him four years and untold pairs of shoes to complete.
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MJ Eberhart – AKA Nimblewill Nomad retired at 61 in 1993 and became a perpetual hiker. Over 15 years he walked over 34,000 miles (55,000 kilometres). He became the first known person to hike the entire Appalachian Range in North America, from Newfoundland to the Keys and more and more.
Canadian Jean Beliveau completed a 46,600-mile walk around the world in 2011 covering 47,000 miles and passing through 64 countries. It took the former neon-sign salesman 11 years and two months. Beliveau used up 54 pairs of shoes on the walk which was to promote peace and non-violence.
HEALTH
The general advice is to walk 6,000 steps a day to improve your health and 10,000 to lose weight.
A person would need to walk for seven hours to burn off a super-sized Coca Cola, chips, and a Big Mac.
ETYMOLOGY
The verb 'to walk' dates back to Old English and originally meant 'to roll' or 'go back and forth'. It could also mean 'to curl one's hair'. It came to be used mainly for moving around on foot from the 15th century onwards.
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The word 'perambulator' first meant a person who walks, then a device for measuring distances, finally a baby carrier pushed by someone walking.
The term "Jaywalking" was invented by car companies in the early 1900’s to shift blame for accidents from motorists to pedestrians.
A walkabout is Australian Aboriginal English for a nomadic ritual excursion into the bush. The term was adopted in 1970, during tours by Queen Elizabeth II of Australia and New Zealand for informal public-relations walks by politicians and royalty.
HUMAN WALKING
Human babies are helpless because we walk upright. Walking upright requires a narrow pelvis, in which our large head/brain would get stuck during birth, so babies are born with a smaller head/brain that develops more after birth, compared to other mammals.
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We swing our arms when we walk because it is the most efficient way to walk. By swinging our right arm with our left leg and our left arm with our right leg we conserve 26% more energy than by other methods such as hands at our side or left arm with left leg/right arm with right leg.
Men walk significantly slower when walking with a woman, but only when that woman is their romantic partner. If she's a friend or acquaintance they go at almost full speed.
On average we make 243 walking trips covering 198 miles in a year.
An average person takes 18,000 steps per day.
The 10,000 steps a day rule, about five miles of walking, didn’t come from scientific research or cardiologists or a medical study of any kind, Rather it is marketing from a pedometer company in Japan - the Japanese character for 10,000 looks like a man walking and the number stuck.
The average human walking speed is about 3.1 miles per hour, or 5.0 kilometers per hour.
Most animals are digitigrade, i.e., they walk on their digits or toes. Birds, cats, dogs, turtles etc are examples. Humans are plantigrades i.e., they walk on the flats of their feet. Bears and frogs are some of the other plantigrade animals that walk on the entire sole of their feet.
All felines directly register- this means that when they walk, their back paw walks into the exact area where the front paw stepped, to minimize sound and to ensure stable footing.
The average human walking speed is about 3.1 miles per hour, or 5.0 kilometers per hour.
ANIMAL WALKING
Most animals are digitigrade, i.e., they walk on their digits or toes. Birds, cats, dogs, turtles etc are examples. Humans are plantigrades i.e., they walk on the flats of their feet. Bears and frogs are some of the other plantigrade animals that walk on the entire sole of their feet.
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All felines directly register- this means that when they walk, their back paw walks into the exact area where the front paw stepped, to minimize sound and to ensure stable footing.
Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.
FUN WALKING FACTS
The average housewife has been calculated to walk 594 miles (956 kilometers) a year in the course of her daily housewifely duties.
Research suggests that the average British child walks 12,000 to 16,000 steps a day. The average American adult walks 5,117.
Even though over 40% of the trips taken in the U.S. are less than one mile, less than 10% of all trips are made by walking or cycling.
At an average walking speed of 3.1mph, it would take just less than a year to walk around the world or just over nine years to walk to the Moon.
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People can recognise each other 90 percent of the time just from the way they walk.
It takes 200 muscles to take one step.
In 1996, the President of Colombia introduced a Bill to make drunken walking illegal.
Source Daily Express
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