03-11-2020, 11:27 PM
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Re: walking question
When I first started working in central London, my job often involved delivering stuff on foot. To make life interesting I would sometimes pick a person out some way in front and and a finish line , perhaps a lamp post or a phone box, then race them to it, long strides only, no running. Of course they had no idea I was racing them but I must have looked a complete tw@t speeding past them at the last second.
These days I'm a bit slower but I would say walking up hill I would be inclined (get it?) to take smaller steps, long strides up a hill could look just as ridiculous as they did in my youth.
03-11-2020, 11:33 PM
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Re: walking question
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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When I first started working in central London, my job often involved delivering stuff on foot. To make life interesting I would sometimes pick a person out some way in front and and a finish line , perhaps a lamp post or a phone box, then race them to it, long strides only, no running. Of course they had no idea I was racing them but I must have looked a complete tw@t speeding past them at the last second. These days I'm a bit slower but I would say walking up hill I would be inclined (get it?) to take smaller steps, long strides up a hill could look just as ridiculous as they did in my youth.
Wan't it John Cleese who did the ministry of silly walks?
04-11-2020, 12:16 AM
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Re: walking question
Originally Posted by Lion Queen
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I know someone who used to live at the top of a very steep hill, she used to walk backwards up the hill, she said it somehow seemed easier to get up the hill . I'm not joking either
04-11-2020, 09:18 AM
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Re: walking question
If taking shorter steps, try not to make it look like mincing.
Edit: I'm going on a walk today. I haven't done much walking lately and it exercises different muscles to cycling. Part of the walk will involve going up a steep hill. I'll try a few different pace lengths if nobody is watching.
04-11-2020, 06:30 PM
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I think stride length would be determined by the steepness of the gradient...Those hills would be described as 'undulations' on some of my walks Mart....If I may......Running up hills is more energy efficient than walking, because the amount of time each leg has to bear your full weight is drastically reduced, and momentum is added to the equation....
04-11-2020, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I think stride length would be determined by the steepness of the gradient...Those hills would be described as 'undulations' on some of my walks Mart....If I may......Running up hills is more energy efficient than walking, because the amount of time each leg has to bear your full weight is drastically reduced, and momentum is added to the equation....
I can't (or wouldn't) risk running due to a kneecap that I broke into three bits when I was in my forties. It gave trouble for a number of years and running might cause it to start again.
Best thing about cycling and walking (for me) is that neither activity jars the bones as much as running.
04-11-2020, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by mart
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Photos often can't show the length and gradient of hills but anyway, they were the ones I walked up and gave thought to the length of pace. I have been pedalling up them for years. Not sure if I still could but might give it a try sometime.I can't (or wouldn't) risk running due to a kneecap that I broke into three bits when I was in my forties. It gave trouble for a number of years and running might cause it to start again.
Best thing about cycling and walking (for me) is that neither activity jars the bones as much as running.
04-11-2020, 10:17 PM
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Funny really but the but the last bit of knee pain to disappear before it finally went away altogether was when walking downhill. I suppose having to hold the bodyweight back. At the time, I got water on the other knee because of not being able use the broken one all that well.I'd just started running with friends before I fell and broke the knee.
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