A man can walk around the entire equatorial circumference of the Earth in 8,300.33 hours if he walks at a steady and unbroken pace of 3 miles per hour (mph). This is about 345.8 days, 49.4 weeks, 11.5 months, or.95 years of walking in a straight line without stopping. The distance between the Earth’s landmasses makes it impossible to walk nonstop for more than 8,000 hours. But this has been said to have been done by more than one person.
A faster way.
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, which is important to remember. The Earth bulges around the equator because of the way it spins. This makes the distance around the equator, which is 24,901 miles, 41 miles longer than the distance around the poles, which is 24,860 miles.
If someone walks the meridional circumference nonstop at 3 miles per hour, it will take them about 8,286.6 hours, which is about 14 hours faster than driving. To find out how long it takes to get from one place to another, divide 24,901 miles by the speed (3 miles per hour).
Fastest Walker
British Olympic race walker Tom Bosworth is the fastest walker in history. In 2017, Bosworth walked a mile in just over 5 minutes, which is about 12 mph. This was the fastest mile ever recorded. If Bosworth were to “walk” around the world via the equator without stopping, it would take him 2,075 hours to do one circuit. This is about 86 days, which is a little over 12 weeks or three months.
People who walked all the way around the world
Even though it is impossible to walk around the world, this was done by several people. David Kunst was the first person known to have done this. He and his brother John left Waseca, Minnesota, in June 1970.
The two walked to New York City and then took a plane to Portugal, where they started walking across Europe again. Bandits attacked Kunst and his brother while they were in Afghanistan, which took away from his success. The robbers shot and killed John and hurt Dave very badly. Dave went back to the walk alone and finished it on October 5, 1974.
But Kunst’s accomplishment didn’t meet the requirements of the World Runners Association (WRA). The WRA is an international group that sets the rules for events like walking around the world. One rule of the WRA is that you have to walk at least 16,300 miles. This rule was not followed by Kunst’s by about 2,000 miles.
The WRA also decided that other people had officially walked around the whole world on foot. These are:
Fastest: Jesper Olsen, 662 days (January 2004 to October 2005)
Tony Mangan went the farthest, 31,000 miles (October 2010 to October 2014)
Olsen is the youngest at 33 years and 147 days.
Serge Girard is the oldest person, at 62 years and 315 days.
Olsen has been around the world twice, which is the most (including once from pole to pole)
Rosie Swale Pope, Tom Deniss, and Kevin Carr are among the other people on the WRA list who walked around the world.
Average Walking Speeds
One study done in 2011 found that people between the ages of 20 and 29 walk an average of 3 to 3.04 miles per hour. The same study also found that as people get older, their walking speeds tend to slow down. Researchers from the study found that people between the ages of 50 and 59 walk at a slower rate of 2.93 mph. The study shows that people aged 60 to 89 walk between 2.10 and 3 mph.
Walked for a Lifetime
On average, a person takes about 7,200 steps a day, according to estimates. Theoretically, if this person lives to be 80, he will have taken more than 200 million steps over the course of his life. Using the average man’s stride as a guide, a long life of walking can add up to about 110,000 miles. This distance will be enough to go around the world five times.
