• owsei@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Ok, wait. I regularly take a 1.5km (close to a mile) path uphill that I need 20min to walk (and people say I’m a fast walker). How are you all walking so fast? I need to wait for trafic semaphores and stuff, but how can walking almost 5km (more than 3 times my path) take only twice as long?

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      I walk fast cause I’m 2 m tall and have long legs, but my ex used to walk a Pokemon go route with me that was 1.6 miles and it took us just about an hour to go through it and back. She was not very tall and had no problem keeping up.

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      3 days ago

      Around 5,5 km from me to my Grandpa on the other side of my city with pedestrian lights etc. Takes me around 45-50 minutes. Fast walker, around average height for an EU man.

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      3 days ago

      15 minute mile is my “walking while listening to fast music” fast pace. It is definitely a brisk pace but this is not even close to jogging. And 3.5 miles is my normal distance.

      And even then, the point is more that if you are moving at 4 mph in your car, the car is doing almost no work. 4mph for a semi in shape human is perfectly reasonable to walk, so if that is all your car is providing you, it isn’t worth it.