r/BeAmazed 6d ago

Skill / Talent This guy walked 100,000 steps / 81km in one day

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u/typ0r 6d ago

Why not just convert it to speed? 80km in 16 hours equals 5km/h or whatever that is in burger units, which is a normal walking speed. (Probably walked closer to 6km/h because of breaks and stuff)

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u/imMadasaHatter 6d ago

I was thinking the exact same thing, it’s a perfectly normal and even slow walking speed. 16 hours of it is the impressive part

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u/gsOctavio 5d ago

I don’t think it’s slow, probably like a 16 minute mile on average (assuming breaks etc) which is a very slow jog but pretty quick walk.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 5d ago

People who run a hundred miles in under 24 hours exist. I know about a dozen people who have done that. The fastest 100 mile run is 10 hours 51 minutes. That's a 6:30 pace. Walking 50 miles in a day is on a lower rung of impressive.

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u/Protodankman 5d ago

Yeah this really isn’t that amazing. Having walked 8 hours on steep incline up a mountain, it would be considerably easier doing 14 hours on flat, which is how long it would take at my regular walking speed. And there’s so many people that have done much more intensive stuff.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 5d ago

Like anyone who has done an Iron distance tri or more. A LOT of people have done that.

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u/mcockram85 5d ago

Yeah I did a 100km run last year which topped out at 105,000 steps over 10 hours so I wouldn't say there is much impressive about this claim.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 5d ago

Love the people downvoting you. That's a super solid 100k.

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u/mcockram85 5d ago

It's fine it wasn't intended to be a brag or anything but just pointing out that a first timer doing a 100km would surpass the effort here.

I'm not disputing that it's a long way but it's not some incredible effort.

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u/lilcummyboi 6d ago

It's burger unitz, with a z

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u/typ0r 6d ago

You're right, my bad.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 4d ago

Really made me LOL

Thanks

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u/diamondpredator 5d ago

Yea it's actually a normal, maybe slightly quick speed. The pace is nothing special for anyone not morbidly obese.

Walking that much in a day is pretty cool though. I've hit 50k steps on a few hikes and usually get to 25k when going somewhere like Disneyland so walking 2x-4x those is awesome. Although my 50k steps are on uneven surfaces and with some hefty elevation changes.

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u/Additional-War19 5d ago

“Burger units” 😭

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u/desl14 5d ago

i'm hiking once a year with friends for 50km with a pace about 5km/h but it still takes us about 12 hours due to occasional rests

sure we could do that faster, but 80km are a lot more exhausting than 50km

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u/typ0r 6d ago

The distance is in the title.

Also you mentioning varying stride length is an argument against using steps as a metric because walking the same number of steps but half the step size would half the work done without reflecting in the number of steps done.

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u/HeyLittleTrain 6d ago

I don't think that taking half-sized steps is half the work.

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u/typ0r 6d ago

Good point. Hadn't thought of that.

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u/HacksawJimDGN 6d ago

It's 1.74 steps a second. Rounding up to 2 steps a second means he would have been done in under 14 hours which is a huge discrepancy.

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u/Jaakarikyk 5d ago

He had stops