May 7, 2007

• London Walks

  With the warmer weather here (I'm talking 60's - warm for London), I've gotten back into walking. Yup, just walking.  London is a city meant to be explored on foot. The transport system is very poor and will drive you crazy with its inefficiencies.  But that's not really my main motivation for walking. With its maze of streets, you'll only find the most interesting bits of it on foot rather than passing along the main roads in a car.  There are so many curious hidden away streets and buildings all over the city to discover. So that's what I like about it. Oh, and I also haven't been to the gym in months and this is my one way of getting some exercise.

  I found a really cool website where they provide you walking directions from point A to B, tells you how long it will take, how many calories you'll burn, and also the CO2 emissions you've saved by not using a car or bus.  Walk It.  I found that a one way brisk walk from my home to work burns 170 calories.  That takes about 32 minutes which is hardly any slower than public transport.

  Another website, Shortwalk, demonstrates just that and produced a map that shows the walking time from each tube stop in central London. They frequently discovered that walking took roughly the same amount of time.

  

  For organized walks, there's info at Walking the Way to Health and Saturday Walking Club.  

   

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