/hob/ - Hobbies

>>64065
It's indeed a scenic picture but I am mostly confined to walking on railroad tracks and it's rarely as scenic as pictured. You should go out and walk, if you can.

>>50416
I almost exclusively walk after the sun has gone down. Sometimes I pretend that I'm in a real life rpg. The real world is incredibly absurd, and treating it as the game that it is allows me to experience some modicum of childhood wonder again. I wear a milsurp jacket and fill the large pockets with interesting items I find on the ground.
>Where do you walk?
Along the beach, or among the city folk and quiet streets. (My eyesight is not fit for the woods at night, and I dislike the idea of drawing attention to myself with a light. Theres not any woods where I live now anyway).
>How long do you walk for?
It depends. I used to live by this great 8 mile loop trail around a lake, but the park always closed at sunset, and I've since moved anyhow. 20,000 steps on a particularly good night walk (10 miles). I like to count to 8 in pace with my steps to clear my mind of words and repeating sentences.
>What kind of shoes do you like to wear?
Hiking sneakers. Merrells that have stuck with me quite a long while.
>Do you take photos?
Some things are too beautiful to be captured in pictures, especially with my old phone. I don't take pretty pictures but if I find an interesting scene (like a building on fire or a fight), or an interesting place or object that I would like to remember, then yes.

>>64079
Based Merrell wearer I like your style

I want to walk so fucking bad mates but I genuinely have nothing to go to and it's dangerous as fuck here. Fuck that guy from four years ago who says it's all anxiety and cities are safe. It's not. Your statistics are a bullshit fallacy. The truth is I'm surrounded by mentally ill homeless people and racist black people in a dominant black area. I am in a high traffic urban areas but many of the streets don't even have sidewalks. There's no nature to go to. There are never any deserted hours as it's a city that never sleeps. I can't go anywhere or enjoy anything. Just locked in my house LDAR for the end of time. It's bullshit. I wish I was born somewhere else. Being born here ruined my life bad.

>>64289
True. I used to be in a place like that, such places can be unwalkable. It transformed my life when i moved just because i can go out and walk

>>50416
I just got surrounded by police on the interstate at 1:00am or so. I went for a walk when I started to feel like I usually do and found out it's illegal…
I can't even walk bros… It can't be like this… Ted Kaczynski was right…

>>64289
>urban areas
>many of the streets don't even have sidewalks
how is this even possible. I know america blah blah but it can't be that bad. Aren't there laws or regulations against this?

>>64314
Can confirm. I live right in the middle of a city and there's barely any sidewalks to walk on here. There's a small stretch of sidewalk on one side of the road that goes on for about a quarter of a mile and then it stops. Then you just have random spots of sidewalks here and there but there's barely anything to them and only on one side of the road and usually the side you don't want to be on. Same as >>64289 said, there's way too many homeless, junkies, and violent blacks to even go for a walk anymore. Some of them have tents camped out on the few spots of sidewalk here. This place isn't friendly to people who bike or walk either. You'll 100% be harassed for it. There's a "walking path" that most of the people here use but it doesn't get you to anywhere. It's just a paved path that's pretty much paved over an old railroad that ran through here. It's only safe to be on during the middle of the day as you can imagine that the bad people make their way towards the evening/night. Some even sleep on parts of it or waiting to attack people. succubi who go for evening walks or can't make it to their cars by the time the sun goes down usually become victims of robbery or rape. People I personally know have been killed on it. There used to be a spot on the edge of the city where you could watch fights happen one after another on the weekends. Cops avoided it I imagine purposefully, as there was drugs being sold, prostitution in the open, shots fired, and anything else you can imagine in an anarchist environment. When I used to get high, I'd go up there to buy as it was cheap and nobody asked any questions. I can't even begin to tell you what kind of shit I'd see there. People fucking all over the porches of a church that they took over, people shooting up, passed out being pissed/shit on, young succubi being fucked by 40+ year old men, and one night a guy standing next to me while waiting for a bag was shot down in a drive by. America is a third world shithole and anyone trying to claim it's not at this point is a fucking moron. It just has it's pull because there's a decent amount of rich people strung out in various places but that doesn't mean shit for the 95%+ of the rest of the population living in dire straights.

>>64315
The people who live in rural areas, surbibia, and yuppie districts have no idea that what you are talking about is a thing or is as pervasive as you are talking about. Talking to them about how terrible conditions are in U.S. cities is like talking to Boomers about modern day personal finances.

>>64314
I live in a moderate US city apart a metro area, and it's common to have no sidewalks

>>64315
>>64316
Sounds like hell, this is what happens when you stop putting people in jail. Recently saw a story of a I think San Francisco activist succubus who was murdered, her family was fighting to keep the murderer out of prison because that's what she would have wanted. America is screwed if people would rather be murdered than appear racist.

>>64319
The left has that essence. Just remember what the rapefugges did to those leftists who arrived to the stations to greet them.
>because against muh racism
>and muh racism ended up being based af

>>64319
Yes because people can be put in jail indefinitely just like that for any offense.

>>64319
city people aren't human fam. They commute for up to a full hour every single day in urban traffic

>>64324
Is this meant to be sarcasm? Either way I don't think you are aware of the recent changes that have been made since the greatest black man to ever live died of a fentanyl overdose. They are setting the bar a lot higher as far what sends a person to prison and how long they are kept there. Have you heard that in some places minors aren't prosecuted for stealing cars? Guess what happened because of that, there is a new trend of minors stealing cars, who would have thought?

don't care
stop making every damn thread about your /pol/tard whining ty

>>64319
It really is, I've been trying to save up to move. It's hard when rent and bills takes everything you make and it's still not enough. I've had to resort to freelancing and selling off personal items that I've kept over the years. If it wasn't for all of the "nostalgia" that's been rampant over the last 7 and some years I would be in some deep shit. I don't have any friends or family to rely on either. Not that it really matter, you can't trust most people in today's time. Way too rare to even find a like minded person outside of dedicated spaces online. Not like there's ever going to be a fucking Wizchan meet up and who the fuck would even bother with that shit. We're all shut-ins who hate society.

>>64336
It's relevant to the topic, stop complaining about /pol/ every time you see something that makes you uncomfortable, besides, no one goes there anymore.

what are some ways to make walking a challenging workout?
I can think of:
Power March( NOT running)
using ankle weights, mildly heavy,and walking at a brisk
walking with a heavily loaded backpack

>>64345
slopes/inclines, stairs

>>64345
Weighted bag would work. I carried 50 pounds worth of supplies when I went on a long canoe trip, it's a workout.

>>64345
rucking is underappreciated. If you max out your speedwalk and hold it you'll burn about as many calories as if you were running

This isnt walking per se but doesnt deserve its own thread either:
what y'all think of mixing roller-blades, bicycles, and maybe even skateboard as a means of moving within and throughout the city?
my city has a public\free system of bikes, and I can carry a skateboard, or roller-bladers myself. mixed with a heavy, extensive dose of walking: can I effectively stop using motorized, public transport this way?

Spring is arriving, weather is warming up enough to start enjoying crisp bright days before it gets too warm and humid in the summer.

>Where do you walk?
I have a small lake I walk around nearby mostly, and then I add some of the more quiet/scenic parts of my neighborhood (European suburb) sometimes. Besides that I sometimes drive to the forest, beach or mountains if I'm on holiday at family to walk around there.
>How long do you walk for?
I usually aim for about an hour on my daily walks, around 8km. If I'm going somewhere for a walk I'll do two or even three hours.
>What kind of shoes do you like to wear?
I always wear sneakers (white Converse, Feiyue, Superstar, Samba), unless I'm going to walk on terrain with a lot of dirt or when it's raining. Then I might bust out pic related.
>Do you take photos?
Very rarely. Most of my time is spent just looking around or in front of me.

>>64487
8km/h is not walking

>>64488
Yeah it is.

>>64489
thats a 12 minute mile its not a jog or walk, its running

>>64490
running is just walking but fastly

>>64492
average speed is 4km an hour so…. maybe 7?

>>64492
Incorrect its an entirely different form. If you run like you walk you'll sacrifice stamina and eventually injure yourself

>>64494
>sacrifice stamina and eventually injure yourself
strength is built through struggle
>>64493
4km/h, yeah for LITTLE SHIT KINDERGARTNERS maybe

>>64495
>strength is built through struggle
thats not a reason to disread proper running form

>>64495
>4km/h, yeah for LITTLE SHIT KINDERGARTNERS maybe
someone who not only doesnt walk, doesnt run, but is probably an overweight hormone take (troon)

brag faggotry and uncalled for hostility is just what this thread needed

>>64488
wrong.

I prefer cycling, i like feeling wind in my face and being able to travel much faster and further, and judging by how much sweat i produce while cycling, i can confidently say that it is a more rewarding form of exercise.

I can't walk around my neighborhood because it seems like 1 in 10 houses has their stupid mutt out in their yard without a leash. I've been chased by so many dogs it's unbelievable, dog owners destroyed this place and now I only ever see people go outside if they have a dog with them to scare off the other dogs

>>64506
I would kick a dog if they chased me, and if they bit me I would shoot if they are more than 30/40 pounds.

>>50416
I love walking. I wake up around 5am and go to a 1 hour walk at 6am. At 5pm(sometimes at 6pm) I go for another 1 hour walk. Sometimes I walk for 2 or 3 hours, depending on how I'm feeling. Today I decided to run, but after 10 minutes I was so fucking tired I just went back to walking. I want to be able to run for 30 minutes nonstop, at least, just to have some goal in life.

>>64511
10 minutes running is an unironically great amount of stamina for a novice runner. I think you will be doing 30 minute runs in no time at all.

>>64502
ok. there is a bike thread.

>>64514
Enjoyment isn't the only form of reward, hedonistic simpleton.

>>64514
>>64519
As Protagoras says, 'Man is the measure of all things,' although I am not certain how many men are emitted as an effluence from cycling.

I often go to the forest, it's very fun and free in the forest, in the forest I'm a friend of foxes, mice, moose and wild boars, it's a pity that it's difficult to build relationships with them

When I'm out walking at night and there's a car driving past, I have to fight off the intense desire to flatten myself to the ground or hide. Don't know why.

Used to enjoy going to a nearby park less than a mile away, but my sanity was slipping back then…. Nowadays just thinking about doing so makes me fear possible consequences and as a result i'm physically inactive. Gained 70 pounds from schizophrenia meds…

I usually walk in place or around my apartment just to get some movement in without the need to leave the house. Just to tick a box to say I did something today.

>>50416
A couple times I went and walked on the side of a highway where I live, no sidewalks here. I don't do it anymore because there isn't much to see and nowhere to really go.

>>65639
is it common for people to walk there where there is no sidewalk? it would make me anxious standing out like that as a pedestrian, besides all the ruckus and danger that come with sharing the road with speeding drivers

it's something i have come to hate: when you step out of urban areas you've got towns that are a few miles apart, but it's practically impossible to just walk there. sometimes there are dedicated bicycle lanes and pathways and that's it.
but nobody cares since it's so commonly accepted. this is what makes rural life so repulsive to me. every little town or hamlet is like a small island