How long would it take to walk 720 miles?

Question

if a person walks 10 hours a day at a moderate pace.

How many weeks would it take to get from start to finish?

Answer 1

Is this a theoretical question, an actual query about doing a distance walk, or some homework you are too lazy to do yourself?
If it's a theoretical question, if you walk ten hours a day at a moderate pace, which is about 3 miles an hour, you will walk 30 miles a day and to cover 720 miles will take 24 days. That would be about 3.5 weeks.
If it's an actual question, there have been trans-continental walks (and runs) and how long they take depends on a number of things. What type of support is available? If you have a trailer or fifth wheeler that someone can park ten miles down the road each day, you have a place to sleep and a place to prepare proper meals for yourself. You also have a place to wash out your socks and tend to blisters and sunburn.
If you're trying to do it on your own, it gets very difficult in some parts of the country to find a place to sleep at night or a place to eat, for that matter. You also need to carry water for the whole day, and that can be a heavy load as well, unless you are in a populated area where there are lots of stores.
There are other hazards with long distance walking, in that most of these walks must be done along highways where you have no pedestrian sidewalks. The exhaust fumes and wind buffeting from large trucks and cars can be very tiring. However, if you have a goal in mind, such as fund raising for some worthwhile cause, it can be an interesting adventure.

Answer 2

I'd guess about thirty days. My average stride being 2.5 feet I figure I could cover, with a little discipline and some faster paced walking about twenty to twenty five miles in a ten hour day. If exhaustion didn't take me out I think right around thirty days.

Answer 3

A military march is 120 30 inch steps per minute.That's 300 ft per minute. 18,000 ft per hour. 180,000 ft per 10 hours. Divide by 5280 ( ft per mile ) equals 34.09 miles per day.
This pace couldn't be kept up, so the army gives the troops a ten minute break each hour, so now the numbers look like this.
15,000 ft per minute. 150,000 ft per 50 minutes. 28.40 miles per 10 hours. At that rate it will take 26. 408 days.
Soldiers with full field packs can keep up this pace, so you'll no doubt be carrying far less. You should have no trouble.
Happy hiking and good luck.

Answer 4

You could walk about 30 miles a day,do the math from there!

Answer 5

Most people walk one mile in 10-15 minutes... do the math.

Answer 6

What time of year? Location?

I can walk that in about three weeks, if in Death Valley or Sahara desert I would need more time.

Answer 7

You flunked math did you not. See they told you that you would need it someday. Truth always comes .

Answer 8

If you include breaks, time to eat, sleep, etc.. it would take you about a month.