Showing posts with label Walking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walking. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Walkability Scores of Places I've Lived


I'm not sure I completely agree with these scores, but there's some truth to them. Somehow, though, my Mississippi residence felt more walkable by far than my Texas residence did. And while my new Georgia residence does lack for walkability, in many ways it feels more walkable than Texas did. I think it comes down to how at home one feels in a location as well.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Distance Walked Each Week

According to Google maps, my current walk to work is 0.9 miles. My previous walk to work was 4.0 miles. I took the bus three days a week and walked home, meaning that I walked twelve miles per week. Now, I don't take the bus at all and walk all five days of the week both ways. The walk to the bus itself was a mile, so really that was five miles of walk each day I did so back at my previous office location. Never mind the explanations; here's the chart:
Looks like I'm walking significantly less per week than previously. Five to ten miles is still good for you according to something I read recently, but not as good as fifteen.

However, since I no longer walk as far, I've upped my other exercise, which usually consists of two miles of running or four miles of stationary biking four days a week (whereas previously I did this only one day per week). Add in these miles (assuming I split the biking and running evenly), and the mileage covered is actually a bit more now:
Of course, I walk at other times too, but I consider the walk to/from work as the most significant and steady.