Show less real exercise in cycling than walking walk for health is the slogan today and it was ras recently suggested that in spite of the amazing develop ment of hiking there were still too many i 3 oung people who didn dian t NN alk all enough it has been calculated that in walking a mile the average person takes tales 2963 2 steps in cycling a mile t tl e exercise taken Is equivalent to steps which means that the cyclist his to cover coner about three and a halt half in les to get tl ti e r same ame amount of exercise ever cise th that thit it the walker gets in one tl ti is Is an interest ng comparison which sets a new standard for walk ers many people who would R think nothing of cycling seC seventy nty miles in a day would he be appalled if they were viere asked to walk twenty in the same period but the exercise obtained in each case u Is equivalent there are I 1 akers of course who do twenty five live or thirty ml es a day but there are qu te a number who think that if they wilk ten or evea even less it Is time to catch a bus or train home ANil liking king is good ebere sebut e it is necessary if it we re are to rely on it for that purpose e to make sure we get enough of it london answers |