How many miles do you walk a day? Coworkers acting like it's a big deal to walk a lot

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One of my coworkers is getting a lot of crap at work for not driving to work and spending an hour walking about 4 miles a day to his home. Is this normal for people to react like this or am I just with a bunch of jerks?

[HopeAgain]

1. Guilt

People dont like to feel bad about not getting any exercise.

[Sherman A1]

3. Agreed

And people have to make themselves feel better by putting others down in too many cases.

[greymattermom]

2. At least 2 miles every day.

Sometimes a lot more. I'm 72 and have the time.

[Sherman A1]

4. I do between 10 and 20 each day

On the exercise bike 🚲. 20 gets me to 10k steps and I check email, Facebook and DU as I do so. 17 so far this morning.

[eShirl]

5. it's like a free gym membership

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I'll go with buncha jerks. Does he give them crap for their waistlines?

[Anza404]

7. I walk alot

my min is like 20K steps per day i walk a lot without having to use a treadmill or anything like that. Walking to work is becoming more and more common for city and large urban area's id say. Save on gas, good for your heart and it often beats being stuck in traffic for an hour when you could just walk the hour.

[Phoenix61]

8. I'm going with bunch of jerks

Sounds like a great plan. Good for him physically and financially and great for the planet.

[zipplewrath]

9. 4 miles every day

The spouse walks 4 miles every morning. Everyone she knows is amazed. Mind you, they have no problem going to the gym for 2 hours. I can't walk to work because weather would be uncooperative, and it's 12 miles each way. But I walked 20 to 30 minutes each way to school all the way through college.

Not sure what kind of "crap" they are getting. But you'll get teased almost anywhere if you are outside of 1 standard deviation of the mean on almost anything.

[The Genealogist]

10. 7.5 - 8.5 miles a day

Part of the total on some days is jogging on the treadmill or doing the elliptical machine at the gym.

[OriginalGeek]

11. are they complaining

that he is making them look bad or that he is just showing up late and smelly and sweaty?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. Probably normal for most people, but I think it is weird

Most days I run 3 miles and then on the weekends I usually walk at least another 3 miles on top of that. I think that's just normal and healthy. Other people aren't healthy because they think healthy lifestyles are abnormal.

[The Polack MSgt]

13. I walk for more than an hour

every day. I have a dog, an 65 pound bull terrier staff mix.

Needless to say, she's a whole lot easier to love when she's tired.

She's in fantastic shape, but I'm still fat because I have fridge access and she doesn't

[rurallib]

14. wish I could walk like that again

got some bad arthritis in my back
Used to walk/run @ 5 miles a day

Still exercise using machines, but I sure do miss walking especially in the fall

[llmart]

15. I walk at least 4 miles a day, every day.

I've done that for 27 years. The 10 years prior to walking I was a runner and ran 5K, five days a week. I had to quit running because of back issues, so I started walking and biking. I live near a large metropark with a beautiful lake. There are very few days I don't get my walk in, all seasons in Michigan.

I'm almost 70. No one who sees me thinks I'm 70.

[nmgaucho]

16. I put in 4-5 miles per day

On the trails outside my place here in the New Mexico mountains....nature is my gym ; )

[SKKY]

17. Not sure how many miles I walk in a given day...

...but I do run between 25-35 miles a week. Sometimes more if I'm prepping for a race.

[kairos12]

18. About 4-6 miles everyday.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. You're working with a bunch of jerks.

As long as your coworker makes it to work on time and isn't smelly and sweaty from his walk, it's none of their damn business how he got there - whether on foot, bicycle, car, bus, hovercraft or helicopter. They're probably just feeling guilty for not getting any exercise themselves, but they need to STFU about other people's exercise routines, or the lack of them.

(I didn't walk to work when I was working; it was 12 miles, freeway most of the way - but even if it had been two miles I wouldn't have walked because I don't like walking and I would always have been late. Not walking would also have been none of anyone else's business and I'd have been annoyed by self-righteous walkers.)

[DFW]

20. You're with jerks

I work in Europe, so it's not like I have a choice. Cities like Brussels, Zürich and Barcelona are set up so that it's actually more convenient to walk than take any other mode of transportation anyway. Parts of Paris, too, unless you have to go to another part of the city. Same goes for München, Stuttgart, Hamburg, almost any city in the Netherlands, Prague, Budapest, København, Stockholm, etc etc etc.

It's also the reason I don't weigh 350 pounds (the food here is pretty good).

[Turin_C3PO]

21. Jerks.

[BlueSpot]

22. Why is this even their business?

Unless your coworker rubs everyone's noses in it for being lazy or whatever, I don't see why they have any need to express an opinion. Of course, if he walks to work in the mornings too and is stinky as a result, that might be a legit issue. If someone sitting next to me came to work smelling like a goat, I'd have a problem with that. Just saying.

Personally, I do about 8-9 miles a day (according to my step counter) unless something interferes. I work alone so nobody knows if I stink, lol.

[Major Nikon]

23. If there aren't many non-auto commuters in your area that's par for the course

Back when I used to commute by bike, people never really seemed to get used to the idea. I guess they just have no concept of what it would be like not to hop in a car to get to anywhere else. I'm not sure if I could exactly call it getting a lot of crap, but people were continuously questioning my choice and it gets old quickly.