Probably not the farthest but when I was about 14 I walked 4 miles through a forest, train yard and across a highway, in a snow storm, to make it to dinner at steak n shake with my first girlfriend. A friend was supposed to give me a ride but he ended up in after school detention. It was a dumb, freezing cold, no sidewalk trek that took nearly 3 hours.
16 miles. I was hungover, stepped out of my flat for a can of coke, and then just didn’t stop walking until my headphones died. Took the train back home.
I walked about 500 miles. Then I walked about 500 more.
Wait, are you the guy who passed out on my doorstep?
Would
About 25 miles. About 30 years ago, I had a stint with meth, short-lived, thankfully. I walked from the north end of my city to a suburb south of the city to my sisters house to detox after a bender and running out of money. Funny thing, in retrospect, I had just enough money left for bus fare but when I got on the bus, I was still so sketched out (paranoid) that I couldn’t bear to be around other (sober) people. So, I got off the bus immediately and walked. Not my finest hour.
7.9 miles to get home from high school. Missed the bus.
I guess that might not be the farthest but it’s the farthest I remember.
Some girl yelled “loser!” at me from a car halfway. No idea who she was.
I walked just short of 50km to see if I could. I was hungover and stopped for a smoke every hour or so, but I made it. I also had a big water bottle and music headphones to keep me pushing forward
4 days in a row about 40 kilometer (about 25 miles) during ‘De Nijmeegse 4-daagse’ a big walking event in the Netherlands. It was fun! Lots of spectators along the way making a it one big party.
Same, but 50, because the husband isn’t allowed to do 40km because sexism? And doing it alone is kinda dumb.
~30km with a walking group at university, from one city to another.
The worst part was the rain near the end.
Also 20km but through the frozen moors - some people that saw us on the way there thought we were new recruits training for the military!
9 miles recorded by the GPS. If I draw a straight line from where the car was parked to where the GPs died it was 10.5 miles.
I thought I found a cool easy way to turn out simple out and back hike into a loop. It was a big mistake and we were completely unprepared. We didn’t have nearly enough water and there were zero readily available water sources on the mountain.
That day was a big lesson on preparedness learned the hard way (but not the ultimate lesson/hardest way thank goodness).
25km visiting Rome, just turisting around.
5mi starting from my place to my then-gf’s neighborhood.
She wasn’t home at the time. I knew she wasn’t going to be home. Stupid me just wanted to see if I could make the journey on foot.
After I made it, I ate McDonald’s at a nearby mall and Uber’d straight home…
I don’t know the mileage, but I walked ten hours up a mountain and down, then up and down and up and down two more. It was supposed to be a two hour hike but the lead friend took us the long way around because he read the trail map incorrectly. We had two kids under five with us. Water and snacks ran out eight hours before we made it back to the campsite…
I averaged in the ballpark of 12 miles a day for over a week when I visited Chicago. Woke up around 9 every day and basically didn’t sit until 9-10. I was sore for a while afterwards.
About 10miles this past year , just curious how hard it would be. Boring more than anything else. Next time is 20.
18 miles on a hiking trip with full backpacks. Was racing to beat a sudden Sierra snowstorm that was bearing down on us. Had to ford through a glacier runoff lake that had risen to cover the trail. Made it to the car and out just in time.
