It Is Solved by Walking

An amble through various kinds of very long walks

Amy Shearn
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readApr 16, 2021

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Photo: Joerg Nicht / EyeEm / Getty Images

What is the point of a very long walk? It doesn’t generally count as exercise, or maybe it could but that’s usually not what it’s really about. A long meandering walk is almost the opposite of the way most of us work out—those carefully timed-out accumulations of moves meant to be as efficient as possible. Walking isn’t efficient. It’s…

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Amy Shearn
Human Parts

Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person