Everyone walks everywhere these days. Where possible, we walk to work. (Have you seen the price of travel?) We walk instead of taking the car. (The planet, stupid.) We walk with friends in the park at weekends. (Especially now that everyone has a dog.)
We are all in thrall to our step count. What started as a straightforward benchmark of cardiovascular activity has become a modern metric of self-worth. You may not say your prayers before you go to sleep, but so long as you make it to 10,000 steps you can sleep easy. Walking isn’t quite as holy as wild swimming, but it still has the power to make you feel pretty smug.
