09-28-2016, 01:21 PM
Yes, it might be a bit brisk. I'll do it in about 9 minutes, but maybe 11-12 minutes is more reasonable. Still, that shouldn't be onerous in general, and in Europe or Japan it wouldn't be. But we talked (in other threads) about 60+ years of car-centric development, and for largely similar reasons many Canadians and Americans feel that walking 1 km is a huge undertaking and not at all realistic. (Really, walking briskly just 2x 1 km per day would already make a significant contribution to a person's fitness level.) On the other hand, people are willing to spend an hour sitting in their cars to get to work, and again the same to get back at night.
Full disclosure: I walk more than 10 km per day ...
Full disclosure: I walk more than 10 km per day ...