Keeping fit with train travel

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[grahame]

We have gyms in town and sports clubs around, but I much prefer to get my exercise out and about using public transport and I have often advocated trains and buses as a way of helping keep fit during the normal run of things.

An app on my phone which - err - I had not noticed until recently has been keeping tabs on me and has rather confirmed some of my exercise non-regime than help keep me fit.  I was surprised at some of the numbers coming out of it, but then thinking about some of the element in there - yes - I can believe them.  Walks of 20 minutes to and from the station all add up, and the use of kms rather than miles gives rise to rather more impressive numeric values.



The 16.9 kms yesterday probably includes ...
2.0 Home to station
3.0 Dawlish Warren to Dawlish
1.5 around Dawlish
3.0 around Teignmouth
2.5 Marsh Barton to Double Locks and back
2.0 Station to home
... additional with around and about at various stations along the way. 

[Mark A]

Yup. Walks/cycles to and from public transport can be of great benefit to the individual.

(Not to say that the railway, thinking of the likes of Bristol Temple Meads shouldn't work to ease where possible** the distance passengers need to walk between services rather than do the opposite. Also, bus companies, please note.)

Mark

**Thinking about the impossible, e.g. Glasgow's stations, it's remarkable how the distance between the ends of Glasgow Central's terminal platforms and the station frontage is actually the same distance as that between Glasgow Central and Queen Street. Thinking about it in that way, the obstacle of a change of stations in Glasgow shrinks somewhat.