How long can someone physically walk for?

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• QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  your body is designed to keep going at all costs because we used to run around and chase things evolutionarily. iirc your body will start to digest your muscles in any sort of attempt to just keep going for a little longer

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Our ability to keep carrying on is what makes us unique. Most animals will get so tired that their body literally shuts down and they can’t proceed any further. Early humans used this to their advantage when hunting.

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• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ultra-marathon runners will typically run/jog for over 100 miles without stopping (except for a piss), and the hard-core ones will just piss themselves anyway.

  With decent footwear and training the only thing stopping you from walking will be your need for sleep which will come at the 48-36 hour mark. But even then I suppose the desire to not be shot will keep you going further.

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    and the hard-core ones will just piss themselves anyway.

    If you’re a guy, you can walk and piss at the same time. Just walk sideways and whip your dick out.

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    • CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Walking backwards works too!

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    God that’s a long distance! It’s beyond me

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    • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And me lol

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like Dean Karzanes. Dude can run almost indefinitely.

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• kaidenshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s been theorized that human beings’ ability to walk or jog long distances is what brought us out of our primitive era and made us the most advanced species on the planet.

  www.nature.com/articles/nature03052

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep. It brought about a new hunting strategy that a lot of prey didn’t have a counter strategy for.

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    • Wytch@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sweating is OP

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is unknown what the the max distance is. Terry fox ran a marathon every day over the course of 140+ days and ran around 3500 miles …… and he was missing a leg when he did it.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Was he running to find his leg?

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  • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just learned about Terry Fox from Do Go On. What a legend

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Absolute legion!!!

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• toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you use the book’s pace of 4 MPH, which is actually what many people would consider a brisk walk, would take 75-100 hours, or around 3-4 days. That’s a long time to stay up without sleeping, let alone being physically active the entire time. I’d guess someone who is reasonably fit might be able to do half of that before collapsing. Perhaps someone who was using drugs or doping might be able to do it.

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did wonder that they walked for days and hadn’t done training for it. I just can’t see it’s possible

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I watched the long walk and now I’m reading the book. I was wondering, how credible is the distance? It’s 300 to 400 miles. What would happen to your body on the way?

  I don’t know what happens in the long walk, but if you mean nonstop, 300-400 miles isn’t happening unless maybe as a death march. OTOH for someone who is in shape, 300-400 miles with stops for sleep and provisions is certainly doable. The Appalachian Trail is 2200 miles and lots of people through-hike it. It typically takes 5 to 7 months though some do it faster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail

  Oh man, the long walk sounds nuts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk_(novel)

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  • adhocfungus@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is very detailed about how the death march is tearing apart their bodies and minds. Some basically sleepwalk and get the tiniest fraction of rest. But even those that do are driven insane.

    I’m not really a fan of most of King’s work, but The Long Walk is worth a read even if you don’t like his other stuff.

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    • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The main I disliked about the few King works that I read was that the characters had got put into these horror-like situations and then had no freedom of action. This sounds like another one of those. I guess I’ll make a note of its existence in case I find it on a park bench someday, but I don’t feel likely to go looking for it. Thanks.

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think he’s a great writer that frequently drops the ball with the ending and has a few big flops.

    However, he wrote the Green Mile and the Shawshank Redemption, which are awesome. He also wrote Thinner, which I quite liked. I recently read, I have to remember the date 11-23-69 I think it was. That was pretty good. I think many people liked the Shining. I personally never saw or read it though. So personally I have mixed feelings.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    300-400 miles isn’t happening unless maybe as a death march.

    He-he, I guess you typed that before reading the wiki page.

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  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But they do poop in the book and the movie. In quite graphic detail lol

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Over 2000 miles, barefoot.

  But Americans collapse after halfway across the parking lot.

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  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, but have you seen some of our distopian level parking lots?

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most are at airports, but it’s amazing to me that number one is a shopping mall in Canada… albeit Canada’s Texas.

      The other non-airports were media-related amusement parks (mostly Disney)

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Holy shit

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Paweł undertook this challenge to raise money for the Diamond Soul Foundation, a charity he co-founded which supports people in their recovery from addiction. They also organize free one-week camps in Sicily for underprivileged children.”

    Very cool.

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    • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s incredible 😲

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Appalachian Trail is about 2000 miles and a lot if people walk that. Worth a Google search. There are documentaries, memoirs, plenty of before/after photos, etc.

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There was a pilrimage/challenge a friend of mine went on. It was walking 20 miles (96.5 km) each day for 3 days. That was in upstate NY where there are plenty of hills to keep it interesting

  Blisters, chafing and fatigue is common but many people do that every year

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  • Drekaridill@feddit.is ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know what math you’re using but 20 miles is 32.2 km

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    • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Now multiply this by 3 and you will understand what he meant.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Without rest? I don’t know. I could walk a marathon distance with the right shoes but would need to stop to pee. Two marathons? Probably not without training some months, and where would I find the time? Also, if it was in the day here, risk of heat exhaustion is pretty high at midday & afternoon.

  300 miles? No.

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  • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Assuming male, because it’s the internet afterall, you don’t need to stop walking to pee. Just saying.

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    • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You really do. Have you tried it?

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ha! Nope, lady and I guess technically no, don’t need to stop but it would get very uncomfortable!

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean I walk like 4 miles an hour when fresh so that would be like 100 hours if I could keep it up which im not sure I could keep it up for more than a few hours but like even assuming I could that would be over 4 days with no sleep which I doubt I can do. At some point I would be shambling like a zombie from the walking dead.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stephen King is really bad with numbers. Apparently in the book they had to constantly walk at 4-5MPH, but they dropped it to 3 for the book. But sometimes King will just pull numbers straight out of his ass and his editor just lets it fly.

  Similar case, in IT, he constantly described Ben as fat, as wider than he was tall, etc., basically fat shaming the kid, but his actual weight was just a bit over average. It’s just in 1958 when the book took place, there really weren’t fat kids, and the “fat kid” was the one who didn’t look starved. Not like now where everyone’s thick and fat really means fat. It’s a matter of perspective, but the fact of the matter is, we might even consider Ben to be normal or underweight compared with the 11 year old boys (what he was) of today. King just liked to fat-shame. (But he also gave Ben a huge member in the train scene. Like shockingly big. So he didn’t do the boy entirely dirty!)

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The skin on your feet would be doing some lovely things.

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What would happen to your feet exactly?

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not familiar with your source material. Are we talking about one continuous segment without stops, or can the walker rest at regular intervals?

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No rest and no falling beneath below 3 miles per hour.

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    • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No stopping and no falling below 3mph?

      It’s the plot for the latest in the Speed franchise

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    • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve not seen the film yet. I wonder, if there’s no maximum speed can you just sprint ahead and then stop for a little rest?

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