[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

We did 500 miles

Get out

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I prefer a hike to a run, I tried running for a bit but I absolutely hated it, not great for the joints either

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Hiking is better than walking.

Yeah can understand the appeal of a hike although it's difficult to do it very regularly

Also true about the joints, I've not had many problems before but I'm doing long distances now and I do feel it. I was being sold on the merits of trail running the other day and I might look into that after I've got my marathon out the way

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I’m not sure if it’s unhealthy, it’s just how we all cope with grief in different ways…I was similar when my dad died in that I became gym obsessed and would try to go three times a day and would begin to panic if I wasn’t able to go…releasing endorphins is also linked to to releasing emotions, isn’t it…?…and it’s also a time when we feel a huge loss of life control, which pushing our bodies physical can help to put back into place, you know…and you experienced a great sense of calm from your walking …you may not be able to explore that right now with work commitments but it’s something you’re still holding and might enjoy again at some point when it feels right and you’re able to…

Exactly. You get it completely. And I too often felt a sense of panic and unease whenever life intervened and I couldn't go for a walk. In a roundabout way I guess I was succumbing to peer pressure and going along with a few friends' opinion that it was perhaps just a teensy bit unhealthy to go out for as as long as I did and as often. And of course, this was January-February, so it was freezing cold. But as you describe, it felt precisely the opposite of unhealthy in the moment. And for many of the same reasons you stated.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Exactly. You get it completely. And I too often felt a sense of panic and unease whenever life intervened and I couldn't go for a walk. In a roundabout way I guess I was succumbing to peer pressure and going along with a few friends' opinion that it was perhaps just a teensy bit unhealthy to go out for as as long as I did and as often. And of course, this was January-February, so it was freezing cold. But as you describe, it felt precisely the opposite of unhealthy in the moment. And for many of the same reasons you stated.

….and that’s what friends do as well, isn’t it…they worry for us because it’s a solitary road that we go through and it’s their time for feeling helpless also, their concerns are just how they’re coping also……

[smudgie]

Since the 15th December I doubt I have walked a dozen steps.
However I am losing weight

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

I would walk 500 miles

….and I would walk 500 more…

[Cherie]

I love walking as to be fast walking though, none of this ambling along business, I used to run but yeah takes its toll on the knees