walk. walk! walk?

This is allmost true for me because the stores, market and library are all 15 minutes away. My school is in another city so I need to go there by train, but the walk to the train is also 15 minutes! And from the train to my school about 5 minutes. The hospital is further away but fortunatly I don't have to go there that often. Why is this true for me you say? I have a balance impairment which prohibits me to ride a bike, and I haven't got a drivers license either. So pretty much my only option is walking or taking a bus/train. Waiting for them is frequently longer than the walk somewhere, so I walk A LOT .

Yes it would be an ideal world if that was the case. My partner and I do walk most places locally as nothing is a huge distance in our small town. We walk for a couple of reasons actually. One is for the exercise and to work those muscles that we do not use when we are planting or picking the fruit and vegetables we grow on our small organic farm. The other is financial in that we can see no sense in starting up the car to drive 5 minutes when we can walk the same distance in just a bit more time. The weather is not perfect here but the main things we have to put up with are the occassional storms and of course the very hot weather. We are in drought here and have not had much rain for a long time, so I think we could easily walk in the rain just for the joy of it. Actually walking is better for the environment and it is a good cheap form of exercise for most of us. It is something that we should do as often as possible really. The other alternative of course is to get a pushbike as that is as good as walking any day plus you probably get where you are going a little bit faster than if walking.

I would, I would! Walking is the best exercise for the entire body, they say. My biggest problem is that I hate to shop for groceries so when I go, I buy a lot at one time to avoid having to go back for awhile. I don't know how I'd carry all that home if I were walking!

I like to walk, I don't have a car so everywhere I go I walk. I take the Bus to work because it's to far to walk but when I go to the store or shopping I walk. Luckily everything I need is in walking distance. Sometimes when I have nothing to do I just go for a walk.

i rather walk...and i'll gonna used my precious feet given by our God...to walk is consider as an exercise..i walk not only 15 minutes but beyond 15 minutes i could walk even if it reaches miles away...

i always walk from our house goin to SM or Robinsons because it's indeed walking distance...but if i'm with my kids...definitely not helpful....i might not get to my destination and instead keep on chasing them.

If what you say were true. I would [B]only[/B] walk.That way I would be giving compulsory exercise to myself. But for me, things of interest(say, library) and necessity(say, my work-place)are not within that time-value of distance. My office if I choose to walk is a good 45 minutes of a slightly relaxed walking or a 35-minute profuse sweating brisk-walk from my home. I could really convert my going to office a regular exercise routine. But I think of what all I could do in 45 minutes. At least in the morning the weather is not a put off at all except in the rainy season. Evenings it could get late with late-stays at office necessitated. Further the pollution due to heavy traffic and almost absent walk-ways are the real put-offs. I am really pressed for time esp. for my academic pursuits entered into primarily to counter the repetitive boredom of my job. So, I jealously conserve time. But yeah I must exercise by forcefully sacrificing some those goodies I give to myself on the intellectual side. This has been the constant rub between me and my brother who is highly critical of my lifestyle, he living in the US and constantly aware of preserving health as the fitness-freak behavior is more there. In short what you say were true I would love to walk, not only I will simply forget any other means.