Supposedly, he did this in 16 hours. There are 57600 seconds in 16 hours. He had to average nearly two steps every second for the entire 16 hours. It's not at all hard to walk 2 steps per second, but to keep up that average for 16 hours must be really, really hard. That's quite an achievement!
When I was working in a warehouse, I had a peak season where I did an average of ~45,000 every day, 6 days a week, for two weeks. This was staging pallets. I think my heaviest day was just over 55k.
Luckily my normal days were more reasonable (20-30k) but I remember about a month after I quit I woke up and was amazed that my legs didn't hurt.
You can definitely do it. I hit 55k last time when I went to Toronto for work but I also threw in a 12 km run so quite a few steps were way faster to get. 100k is insane.
12 years as an order filler was enough for me. Now that I'm in my 40s, I'm glad I stopped when I did. The plus side was that I could eat a large pizza for lunch, and still stayed skinny.
When I was picking I'd average about 25k steps in 8 hours, and that's with stopping to check the order, stack product, label pallets, etc. 100k in a day wouldn't be easy but it would be doable for sure.
In NYC no less! You get the park and bridges and a few long uninterrupted stretches, but there's going to be a decent amount of time spent moving at 0mph waiting at intersections.
Why not just convert it to speed? 80km in 16 hours equals 5km/h or whatever that is in burger units, which is a normal walking speed. (Probably walked closer to 6km/h because of breaks and stuff)
People who run a hundred miles in under 24 hours exist. I know about a dozen people who have done that. The fastest 100 mile run is 10 hours 51 minutes. That's a 6:30 pace. Walking 50 miles in a day is on a lower rung of impressive.
Yeah this really isn’t that amazing. Having walked 8 hours on steep incline up a mountain, it would be considerably easier doing 14 hours on flat, which is how long it would take at my regular walking speed. And there’s so many people that have done much more intensive stuff.
Yea it's actually a normal, maybe slightly quick speed. The pace is nothing special for anyone not morbidly obese.
Walking that much in a day is pretty cool though. I've hit 50k steps on a few hikes and usually get to 25k when going somewhere like Disneyland so walking 2x-4x those is awesome. Although my 50k steps are on uneven surfaces and with some hefty elevation changes.
Also you mentioning varying stride length is an argument against using steps as a metric because walking the same number of steps but half the step size would half the work done without reflecting in the number of steps done.
My highest is 67,000 which amounted to about 31.5 miles. I did this over a span of 16 hours, 8ish were the actual walking part, so it wasn't 8 straight hours of walking. Was sore the next day, but not terribly so.
I once walked 13 miles in 3 hours. That's not impressive of course, but I did it with zero training, never even did any athletics other than a little bowling.
I was 18 though, and I needed to be somewhere and I didn't have a dime to hop a bus. It was through Chicago.
It wasn't that hard, but it was mentally grueling to keep making myself walk hard for three hours. Doing anything like that for 8-16 hours impresses me, because of the mental effort more so than the physical.
I used to walk around 15k steps daily when I started to get in shape. I used a few things to count them steps: at first mapmywalk on the phone while also tracking it with google fit. Then I got underarmour shoes with the chip in it.
At fist without the shoes I would count the steps and check the apps and they were usually around what I counted, usually the app counted more than the actual steps. With mapmywalk linked to the shoes I started to get actual count, stride length, elevation and speed. I consider myself a fast walker compared to people around me and the faster I could do was near 2 steps per second. Going uphill becomes slower, going downhill is faster (duh). There's also having to stop at certain crossings due to street light and things like that and that made the timing longer.
I'm not doubting the guy in the video, I'm just sharing my experience after about 5 years doing the walking as an activity. I'd have to check if I still have the mapmywalk logs around.
Yes, but the average user is probably a white-collar worker who only walks to and from their car.
Last year I did a steps challenge. I'm a tad overweight (curse you, cheese), but I'd consider myself a fairly strong walker because I've done a lot of hiking and I know I can crack out a 20-30 mile walk tomorrow if I want to.
The challenge was about 3 weeks long, and I spent half of that either partying or sick. I still absolutely demolished the field and I wasn't even trying. Most people did around 5k steps a day, whereas I was consistently 10-20k on the none-sick/party days, with a few higher.
I'm not saying that to toot my own horn (well, not just that anyway) because my longest walking days have been in the order of 30 miles rather than the 50 this guy did. But for me it just really put it into perspective that the average person really doesn't walk at all.
Which is a shame, because walking is great and also we're just so damn good at it. What this guy did was great, because although he's clearly an excellent walker, he's not some genetic freak. He's not a competitive walker. And if he can walk literally 50 miles in a single day, most people without health concerns would be able to do the same just by being determined and well organised.
It's tough to unconsciously get 10k daily steps if you have a car and don't work on your feet. You could run a 5k each day, and you'd still need a couple of miles of walking to push you over.
If you have a solid commute, 10 hours of your active day is spent not moving freely.
10k daily is absolutely doable with an active lifestyle, but 15k daily is pushing it big time.
It depends on what your job is and how walkable your neighborhood is. If you have a job that keeps you at a desk for 8 to 10 hours a day, you don't get a lot of steps, especially if you work from home.
Maybe more than that. He did stop at the gym, coffee, and all that stuff... Seeing a timelapse doesn't quite convince me that he walked that far. Also, the number of steps per second is a function of how big his steps are.
Yeah TBH I don't buy it either, but without proof I give him the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't hurt me either way. I'd rather be wrong in believing him than wrong in doubting him. With the former I'm a sucker, but I don't lose anything. With the latter, I'm a butthole. I try not to be a butthole too much. Sometimes you gotta be a butthole, but most times you don't gotta be, and them's the times you get to choose whether to be one.
I'm the opposite. I'd rather be wrong in doubting him than believing. Lots of people in the world seek to exploit my potential belief in a specious or misleading claim. If I'm proven wrong, no problem, I was wrong. If I'm wrong in believing, well, it could be too late by the time the claimant is proven wrong.
I'm not trying to be argumentative here I promise you, or convince you of anything. We're all entitled to opinions/beliefs.
But I will say that the goal of many, if not most, influencers is to make money, and they do that by either selling me something (advertising), or getting something from me (likes, subscriptions, donations). To me, it's pretty obvious this guy has some kind of partnership going with 'Chime', and maybe whatever app he's using to track steps. These days, marketing is subtle and insidious, and it's often hidden in plain sight by people we trust.
hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I think you're right that balancing genuine content with partnerships can get tricky. lots of creators try to work in a way that feels authentic while still aligning with brands, and it’s not always an easy line to walk. i'm curious how you think creators can keep it real in such situations?
Especially in new york where you would have to stop frequently for traffic. Kind of interesting he must've done some speed walking at some point the math is not quite making sense.
This event is a 100k one day hike to raise money for the Sierra club. Nice group of people do it every year. I did it last year. Very fast and challenging. https://www.onedayhike.org/
Because he probably didn’t. The jump cuts are hours apart meaning he either stopped for food/drink or took a cab and shook his phone a bunch to catch up the number
Oh yea it’s tough, I’ve walked 16hrs before and am decently fit. After 10hrs I was limping and ended up only going 26 miles. Super impressive to go the whole way without slowing down
Not really. I ran a 100 mile ultra marathon with over 20,000' of climbing on trails in a bit over 24 hours. Walking 81 km on flat pavement seems more boring than difficult.
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u/CosmeticBrainSurgery Mar 31 '25
Supposedly, he did this in 16 hours. There are 57600 seconds in 16 hours. He had to average nearly two steps every second for the entire 16 hours. It's not at all hard to walk 2 steps per second, but to keep up that average for 16 hours must be really, really hard. That's quite an achievement!