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My take on the article
I must admit that I have succumbed too often to purposeful walking and I am the poorer for it. When I started my goal of walking at least 10,000 steps a day, my walks were purposeless, free and uplifting. But slowly, I began to spoil my walks with destinations and chores.
I am grateful to the author of the BBC article for reminding me of something I already knew, but was neglecting. Purposeless walking is the real deal. Nothing can replace it, not even cycling. Not even purposeless, bike-path cycling.
As the weather warms, I’ll be happy to get our bikes down from the garage wall, and I’ll enjoy the rides, but I would be cheating myself to let them become substitutes for the kind of walking that Finlo Rohrer has written about.