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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
The first decade of the 20th century had a lot of public amusements that would never fly today. My Grandfather told me about flag pole sitters, tight rope walkers and other doers of amazing feats. Harry Houdini was from this era. The Last Great Walk is a book about a prodigious walker who for a while captivated America.
" Edward Payson Weston was a pedestrian little man with a lofty ambition—to walk farther and faster than any American had ever done before. He is lost today in the mists of American oddity, but in his time Weston—who stood just 5-foot-8 and weighed 125 pounds—was such a celebrated figure that tens of thousands of people greeted him in Chicago during his epic attempt, in 1909, to cover 4,000 miles in 100 days by hiking across the continent. He was 70 years old."
http://online.wsj.com/articles/book...s-1409951902?KEYWORDS=Tales+of+a+Star+Trekker
This 70 year old man averaged ~40miles per day. coast to coast. He didn't quite make his schedule going west- too much Wyoming, and too much headwind. But coming back on a more southerly route he beat 40 mpd.
Supposedly Paleolithic men and women average ~15 mpd just going about their business, in itself an amazing feat. I walk everywhere, but I sometimes feel the hills and a few days of 6-8 mpd and I am not exactly eager to go again. This Edward Weston must have been phenomenal.
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" Edward Payson Weston was a pedestrian little man with a lofty ambition—to walk farther and faster than any American had ever done before. He is lost today in the mists of American oddity, but in his time Weston—who stood just 5-foot-8 and weighed 125 pounds—was such a celebrated figure that tens of thousands of people greeted him in Chicago during his epic attempt, in 1909, to cover 4,000 miles in 100 days by hiking across the continent. He was 70 years old."
http://online.wsj.com/articles/book...s-1409951902?KEYWORDS=Tales+of+a+Star+Trekker
This 70 year old man averaged ~40miles per day. coast to coast. He didn't quite make his schedule going west- too much Wyoming, and too much headwind. But coming back on a more southerly route he beat 40 mpd.
Supposedly Paleolithic men and women average ~15 mpd just going about their business, in itself an amazing feat. I walk everywhere, but I sometimes feel the hills and a few days of 6-8 mpd and I am not exactly eager to go again. This Edward Weston must have been phenomenal.
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