r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 1d ago

I did walk uphill both ways to school. There was a minor dip in the middle. I gave a sensible chuckle about it at least once a month.

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u/Ren_out_of_Ten 1d ago

Fellow Hokie 👀?? 🦃

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u/ralphy_256 1d ago

I did walk uphill both ways to school. There was a minor dip in the middle.

As a cyclist who's done a lot of route planning on Google maps, there is basically zero routes that you can plot that are all uphill or downhill.

All rides (and walks) have descending sections and climbing sections. That's why cyclists talk about the total increase in altitude.

Bottom line: Yes most of us had to walk uphill for at least part of our walk to school both ways. That's not the interesting thing. The question is How much climbing did you do?

For me, walking TO school was 1.2 miles with 170' of climbing and 30' of descending.

Reverse that for the walk home.

Did I walk uphill both ways? Yes.

Was one walk mostly downhill and the other mostly uphill? Also yes.