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By Ryan (registered) - website
Posted April 30, 2012 at 07:06:55

Excellent article, Adrian! Speaking from personal experience: I'm overweight, but were it not for my 6 km daily walking commute, I'd probably be dangerously obese.

There's just no way I'm going to cram a dedicated workout into my schedule - there already aren't nearly enough hours to get through all the things on my to-do list (case in point: the RTH redesign, which still isn't finished...). Walking to work is incidental exercise, a beneficial side-effect rather than a primary objective of the time spent on my commute.

Sidenote: I used to ride my bike to work year-round, but my schedule changed and I switched to walking, mainly because I wasn't getting enough exercise on a bike. As Ted Mitchell noted in a 2006 RTH essay, the bicycle is the most energy-efficient vehicle ever invented, and gets a fuel efficiency of 595 km/l (1,400 mpg) equivalent.

Comment edited by administrator Ryan on 2012-04-30 07:09:40

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