What is the longest distance you have walked in a day?
Four miles would be the most for me. I read that Charles Dickens would regularly walk twelve miles in a day.
Not sure, but it would be no more than 5 or 6 miles.
One exception: During 3rd phase marine boot camp at Parris Island we went on a long hike, but I don't recall how long. Somewhere between five and ten miles I think.
With a pack !
The reason I'm replying to you and not OP will become apparent...now. Probably was one of my first visits back home to NY after having moved. Must have been mid-late-'90s. IIRC I arrived at Grand Central (might have been Port Authority) and it was a beautiful day and the city just filled me with energy. Walked down to my old haunts in the East Village and then made my way north and before I knew it I was up past Columbia and had to backtrack to the 80s at either Broadway or WEA where I was staying. So probably a bit over ten miles. My dogs were indeed barking by dinner. Funny, on arrival my pace immediately acclimated to ~4 MPH where anywhere else I am at more of a stroll or mosey speed.
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P.S. I grew up on Riverside Drive then WEA both in the 90s.
My parents split before I can remember, but for most of my youth, I lived at 83rd & WEA with ma, and dad was in the Belnord at 86th & B'way and then 101st and WEA. If you ever visited Big Apple Comics (my first real job) in the early '80s our paths may have crossed. Was heartbroken to hear H & H Bagels closed down. I remember Calhoun being built, and you could see my building at the end of Romancing the Stone looking up WEA. :)
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