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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8636451" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Thank you. If only I'd have kept it off, but the damn pandemic really threw me, and I'm happy to be back down to around 260. For now. Working on it. It gets harder every year.Absolutely. Like I said way upthread, I was roughly 1 mph too high when speaking about a day of walking. How rough the terrain is, how many breaks you take, what/how much you eat, and the weather, will all modify how long you can keep up the pace you set when you first set out.Sure. I will say, though, that I knew people who trained for long distance running, and regularly hiked, but also drove most places they went for fun, who got tired walking all day faster than I did, or my one friend who also walked everywhere. Not by a huge margin, but noticeable. Less noticeable than how easily they could smoke me in a footrace, of course. Also hiking sucks more than walking on relatively even ground, for me, ever since I got hit in the hip by a (thankfully fairly slow moving, relatively) car, so I can't really speak to hiking at various speeds.I figure it's like boxing vs swordfighting. Similar movements, still different muscles, and learning to box after years of swordfighting is still very tiring, much more tiring than the same amount of boxing training/practice/sparring in a given day is for a boxer with years of experience.Or Southwest Asia, which often gets grouped with North Africa culturally.</blockquote>

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