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Walking is Fitness

How To Appreciate The Olympic Sport Of Race Walking

Walking is Fitness

Dave Paul

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8597 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Paris Olympics start later this week. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave explains why the sport of Race Walking looks odd, but requires impressive skill and strength.

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0:00.0

Today's 10 minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent.

0:07.0

So let's go for a walk.

0:10.0

Temperature I'm out in the morning pre-sunrise.

0:14.0

The temperature today is very mild.

0:18.0

A little on the humid side, but we're in South Carolina, so that's just normal. And later

0:25.2

today, the humidity and the temperature are going to work together to make it feel very uncomfortable.

0:34.4

So the Summer Olympics are coming up in Paris. There's one event that tends to draw an awful

0:44.0

lot of attention, not because it's a popular event for people to watch, but it tends to be a popular

0:51.3

event for people to make fun of.

0:55.0

And that is race walking.

0:57.0

Have you ever seen a race walk?

1:00.0

It's people who are walking very fast.

1:03.0

They're racing, but it looks odd.

1:07.0

It looks maybe even funny for some. And so it draws attention because of how it looks, how it

1:17.7

appears. But these are athletes who are walking in a very specific way. There are some very

1:24.9

specific rules to race walking that I want to talk about. So if

1:28.7

you happen to catch some of it, you'll have a better understanding and I think a better appreciation

1:34.4

for what it is those athletes are doing and just how hard it is. There's a 20K men's event,

1:46.0

a 20K women's event, a 20K women's event.

1:52.1

And I should have done the math here before I started a 10K.

1:55.9

I've run a 10K and a 10K is 6.2 miles.

1:57.3

It's a little more than 6 miles.

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