Strolling Along The National Mall
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Dave concludes his trip to Washington DC with a ten-minute walk on the National Mall.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent and is happening in Washington, D.C., one of the most walkable cities in the world. |
| 0:11.4 | So let's take a walk. I am walking along the National Mall. I'm going to see if I can go from one end to the other in 10 minutes. |
| 0:20.5 | So the National Mall is this, as I always think of it, if I can go from one end to the other in 10 minutes. |
| 0:20.9 | So the National Mall is this, as I always think of it, it's this large green parcel between |
| 0:30.1 | the U.S. Capitol Building and the Washington Monument. |
| 0:36.0 | The National Mall is incredibly popular. It's popular with locals. |
| 0:40.3 | Quite a few people take advantage of the flat surface and will run. In fact, I can see a lot of people |
| 0:50.3 | I'm passing now who are walking. Most people probably walk along the National Mall. |
| 0:55.7 | We've got someone who is running. |
| 0:58.1 | You can also ride your bike along here. |
| 1:00.3 | In fact, there are some of these rentable lime bikes, L-I-M-E, |
| 1:05.7 | that are just parked along this walking path. |
| 1:08.9 | And I guess, depending on how this works, |
| 1:14.9 | you pay for it probably with a credit card. |
| 1:19.8 | It unlocks the bike and off you go and you can deposit it somewhere else in the city. |
| 1:24.7 | 24 million people every year visit the National Mall. |
| 1:33.2 | So technically, it is two miles from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol. |
| 1:38.5 | And that would be the technical definition, as I understand it, of the National Mall. |
| 1:41.8 | This blew me away. |
| 1:47.8 | It has 26 miles of pedestrian sidewalks. |
| 1:58.0 | 26 miles. So as I'm walking now, I'm on a gravel, very wide gravel trail on one side of the grassy area. |
| 2:04.6 | And there's a sidewalk that borders the perimeter of the mall and then you've got these |
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