What Happened to the Woman Who Walked 675 Miles?
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Welcome to The Ministry of Silly Walks, have you developed a new walk?
yes. yes i have Thoughty2.
@@divest_.2759 Is it particularly silly?
@@Thoughty2 Very particularly silly sir.
Now this is interesting.
How about back walk moving in the direction of your back without turning. Like looking front walking backwards
So you're saying a scottsman walked 500 miles, and then walked 500 more just to be a man that walked a thousand miles.
Just to fall down at the door
@@dripkidd8572 DARA DA DA
I was looking for this
@Alex Harris
I've got bad news, you have the wrong artiste
ruclips.net/video/tbNlMtqrYS0/видео.html
16:02. Alcohol is a proven performance enhancer in walking. I've personally, and I know many others, who have walked tremendous distances to get home after a night of drinking
And get home sober again
just cut out the middleman and go for a walk guys... sheesh
Yeah johnnie walker
@@timwoodward8113 ha ha!
Fascinating. Seems like every sport has a performance enhancer like that, eh?
'HEY, I'M WALKING HERE!!!'
-Ye Old Pedestrian Proverb
So is that from rick and morty, or midnight cowboy?
@@Nissenov bruh
@@Nissenov forest Gump lol luietenant Dan
@@Nissenovmidnight cowboy foresure
Nobody:
The guy who invented sliced bread: my God this is the best thing since pedestrianism
I found this hilarious.
@@jjadebrooklyn and I found this comment with 70 likes. Not this comment, it’s a different video...
And if they ever got a sport injury, they could easily walk it off and stay in the race.
Excellent.
Actually, yeah. Just watch those ankles.
Haha. 👌
If I had robot legs, I’d never get tired when walking...
This is true .
It would be funny seeing some dudes speed walk with a straight posture with angry faces
I saw you when he was talking about you
that's literally me when I walk
Theres an entire olympic sport with just that.
People jokingly call it the deathwalk
I can't believe you're not verified, how dare they.
Bruh... DID YOU JUST MADE A JOJO REFERENCE?
Never thought I could be so entertained from a 22 minute video about walking
Couldn't walk away?
@@OddBr18g What a fun exchange to walk in on!
Right !
My mom does what I like to call competitive talking, she can stay at a store for about 3.5 hours
Nice but my mom stays at the store for like 3 minutes
It's her only social interaction outside of her home. Let her have it (and hope you don't end up like her)
I am sure everyone by now agrees that thoughty2's wordplay is the stuff of legends.
Almost as good as Lemony Snicket
Absolutely. That's half the entertainment. And the creative use of stock footage + funny edits. I love it here.
Probably learned from Eminem.
There's a lot of alliteration
This dude walked and became a competitive athlete
Okay never mind walking a thousand miles in a thousand hours is actually insanely impressive, he deserves every single unit of credit he can get.
Yeah
You think you can then try
Man if Weston wasn't hit by a car at 88, dude probably would have lived to 100.
He'd probably live a lot longer than 100, the more active a person is in life, the longer they live.
yeah... fuck that annoyed me so much when he said he was hit by a car and couldn't walk anymore. Them damn automobiles smh
he died at 90
yeah i felt sorry for that poor old chap
@@peyton3509 pesky autos
Speaking of daft competitive sports, what about daft jobs for competitive sports? I have frequently heard about someone to accompany golf caddy’s in the earlier days who would get covered in jam to attract flys, bees, wasps and other flying mini beasts, they where called jam boys and I would love to see a Thoughty2 video on the subject!
That is the funniest thing I've ever heard! I must look it up. Hahahaha!
Best I can do is Brazzers video...
"People were inventing stuff to do" ... I laughed way to damn hard at that line
I imagine people started thinking, "Man, we need to come up with more shit to do, and FAST! We're watching people WALK for crying out loud!"
Same. XD
@@SaviorGabriel lol 😂
I was excited to see an Australian shout out but was left with a joke at our expense hahaha
Very entertaining.
Reminds me of Cliff Young an Australian potato farmer who won the inaugural. Melbourne to Sydney ultra marathon of 875 kilometres. Cliff who was 61 back in 1984 ran in his work overalls and boots, minus his dentures, was trailing badly at the end of the first day. While all the other competitors settled down for 6 hours sleep, Cliff didn't. He ended up winning by 10 hours. Cliff hadn't realised there was prize money ($10,000) and felt bad for the other 5 who had completed the race and split the prize money between them, keeping none for himself. He became an overnight celebrity. The next year at 62 years old he married a 23 year old woman in a big ceremony held at a huge shopping complex. Prior to the marriage he was still living with his mother.
Sorry, went off thoughty2 subject matter, but I thought it was a good story that maybe someone in the world might like
Why do you look like everyone in the thumbnail
Nice
@@samuelvanorshaegen For a second I though that they were all his face photoshopped on😂
thumbnail was changed since this comment was made, nice
@@dreadskeleton he actually made me look like an idiot
@@lewiswilliams3347 well at least he gave your comment a heart :)
Nice job 42. Would be interested to know what kind of shoes the walkers wore? Amazing stuff.
Alright, I'm dropping out of university to join the competitive walking scene and become the best walker who ever walked the earth
@Granger your parents, facepalming silently.
I tried just that and starved to death.
you walk, boy!
www.worldathletics.org/athletes/slovak-republic/matej-toth-14227241 way to go
You have one of the more interesting channels in youtube my friend! Keep it up!
Reminds me of when Hal did it in Malcolm in the Middle
Race walking is an Olympic discipline:D
Hahaha such a good ep!!! Throwbacks
Did he shoot people half way through?
One of the strangest parts of the election was fact checking.
By its nature it’s subjective by choosing what to fact check, so how can it be fair?
Just did a video on it and new to RUclips so appreciate any feedback.
ruclips.net/video/y_dcehWsOG8/видео.html
@Just a Yeti on the Internet
Tweaking or twerking?
I love your channel! You present all your videos in a factual and professional manner while your use of humor is absolutely spot on! Ive always been incredibly picky with my subscriptions but you made the cut :D Keep up the fantastic job!
Last time i was this early corona was still just a beer
Noice 😂
But the coronavirus has been around since 2003. Possibly even before then. This joke is neither valid, not funny. 😐
@@mightyhuygi5068 Modern coronavirus was discovered in 2019, coronavirusES have been around since then
@@footlad4163 no. The coronavirus has been around. Adding an es to the end only states that there is plural
Therefore this comment isnt an argument but instead an agreement.
@@mightyhuygi5068 No im stating the coronavirus he is referring to is covid 19, he is still wrong, im just making sure no misinformation is spread.
This cheered up my Monday , your channel is the best thing I found this year ❤️😃❤️
If there was a movie about this I'd love to them use the 500 miles song.
The song actually became a hit after appearing in a Johnny Depp movie.
@@Kaddywompous that's actually quite interesting
Oddly the song is called aomething like "I'm Gonna Be" or something like that.
@@CONSOLETRUTH2 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) is the full title :)
Thoughty2 needs to record an end addiction hypnosis recording. His voice is so enchanting, I bet such a recording could save thousands of lives.
I just spent almost 22 minutes watching a history lesson on walking as a sport and I was entertained and engaged the entire time somehow.
You've an amazingly low threshold of interest
There's some kind of pedestrianism where I live. A few dutch towns and cities around where I live are called "De Langstraat" and they made the event "De 80 van de langstraat" (The 80 of the Langstraat) where people walk 80km (a little under 50 miles) in one go, you start at 8pm and the last person has to finish at 4pm the following day, if you finish after that you're disqualified. I've partaken in this challenge once and failed (Got to 46 miles tho) but I was 16 back then, I'm almost turning 20 so I'm getting ready to challenge my body once more when the whole pandemic is over, to see if my mind is capable of doing it this time. I highly encourage people to just take a bit of time to challenge themselves to do this. I've learned a lot about my body and mind while training for this challenge, and I've had a lot of fun actually doing it.
honestly these sound a lot like endurance walk or military long marching training
Essentially they are one and the same, except one allowed you to have fans. XD
You don't walk anywhere close to 1000 km or miles in a endurance walk/militair marche
The longest military march ever is 45 miles is 15 houres during the mexican border war(for the US atleast)
Your channel is so informative. big thanks to you
The Paralympics version was hosted by John Cleese as a specific silly minister
Edit: I think thoughty2 just stole my joke, but made it more blatant
I remember watching that, the "Twit Olympics?" if I'm not mistaken... Laughed my ass off!
Man that was interesting as hell. I didn't even know where this sport originated from. Truly the history books are jam packed with such stories. Keep on doing what you're doing 👍.
Imagine an anime about extreme walking.
Edit: Walking Bizzare Adventure
😂😂😂 nice
Setsu no Walking
Knowing anime, it’s probably already thing somewhere
This could potentially be Thoughty2's best ever video I savoured every second of it
"Most of the best books haven't been written yet."
"Stick a Flag In It" is on the book shelf.
Love all your videos but this one is definitely one of my favorites so far! So very well done, and a subject I didn’t know exists! Brilliant work!
Enjoyed it thoroughly 👌 thanks
*Hal from Malcolm in the Middle enters the chat*
Look at me, I can walk!
Looking for this comment
@@moddingtalk321 yep, me too.
With that stupid helmet
You are so underrated! I love your content and keep it up!!
Me: *thinking Thoughty2 was going to give an actual Australian example*
Thoughty2: ‘About the length from your house to your neighbours house.’
Me:
I clicked on this video expecting to be bored and go to another video shortly. But in your normal style, you always make any video entertaining and comical. Thanks for your channel!
Never have I been so interested in a 20 minute video about walking
I was a member of the Shore AC in NJ, the premier N.J. Athletic Club.
Elliot Denman was a our president and a 1956 Race Walking Olympian.
I competed in many races including the London to Brighton Walk, which I failed to finish, but
did manage about 22 mile, paltry but I was new to the sport at the time.
It's still a popular and demanding sport with, as you so eloquently show,
quite an interesting past.
I have known many RW competitors and champions and they are as
dedicated and gifted as any athletes in the world, and in fact , the sport is far from extinct.
Cheers,
Frederick "Rik" Spector
Legitimately gasped out loud when you said Edward Weston was killed by a car. That’s so awful honestly. I have also been hit by a car in a crosswalk but thankfully survived. That car also failed to yield to a pedestrian. I am just imagining the fear he must have felt seeing this giant unfamiliar machine coming at him and realizing it was going to hit him, and it just breaks my heart to know it was while he was doing his favorite sport that he had been doing for decades before cars were even a problem. That just feels like such a cruel ending. :(
On a lighter note though I cracked up laughing when you said Abraham Lincoln himself came out to greet him. For some reason the mental image of that is just hilarious to me.
I love the variety of topics you address
I've heard jokes about walking being a spectator sport, but I'm so happy to finally see a video going in depth into it.
Another brilliant informative video 👍
Not only do I walk for recreation, but I live in a rather small town, so I walk whilst running errands. I can't even begin to count the number of times that people in cars have offered to give me a ride.
While I appreciate the sincerity of their offers, it makes me feel l a little sad that walking is looked upon as something that is not a valid mode of transportation anymore.
I honestly don't think that people realize just how much they are missing out on...
awesoness good work man.
I walked once.
I remember it fondly.
Well, you'll get hungry again eventually...XD
@The End me either, it’s so easy for people to lie about things over the internet. Only the greatest people in history have walked and I don’t think big bootros is one of them. Me personally though have walked more then once, not to brag
Big Bootros, I am truly sorry that you had t endure such a traumatic experience. But as they say, Time heals al wounds. Another one is, What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger. So you’ve got some reasons to hold on. One day the pain will go away.
i walked several times. once for every one of your mom's house
Somebody: "Its like it was yesterday."
Somebody else: "It *was* yesterday."
*A Woman walked 675 miles, This is what happened to her body*
Chubbyemu would be proud
I missed that one to,
Guess we'll never know😂
@@justaline2505 je has the stupidest names for the people that are in videos
@@buildawall5803 what?
Hi Mr Arran
This was a very lovely history “lesson”.
I think this story “hit home” so much for me bc the only “athlete” sport I potentially get could take part in nowadays would be “pedestrianism” and I’ve heard of the modern day version of the sport but never the history behind the sport.
Thanks for sharing your videos you’re a brilliant story teller 💫
“Thanks for reading 😉, you can now comment below on my comments 🙇♀️ (the emoji is bowing) ”
With kindness and respect 🙏💚
Grace
Let me impress you with the fact that I can walk from my house to my neighbors house
@Nancy Rodriguez I'll take that bet.
@Nancy Rodriguez I think that the two houses are the same house, and you don't have any neighbors.
@eyeoftheebeholder00 and assume you need a ride, because no one would walk on purpose.....
Your uploads are very nice to watch, very well narrated!
Thoughty’s storytelling was unusually pedestrian in this one.
@Thoughty2, Sir, I absolutely love your channel. I find myself loving to learn about things I didn't even know to exist. Thank you for what you do.
I got excited when you were gonna explain the distance in relation to Aussies, but you memed us 😂😂
Is it accurate ? 😂
Dude, I absolutely loved this episode. I love walking and until now had not a clue that others did too. XOXOXO
Thought can you do a video about hypnotism please, I was just thinking about it
Yesyesyes
yesyesyesyes
I took apart in a couple of walking contest when i was a kid and it’s not easy! Keep in mind you’re not walking to the supermarket for shopping or doing an hour treadmill at the gym. you have to maintain an intense walk for several miles beside other competitors and referees.
"I walked 500 miles and I'll walk 500 MORE!"
WOW! Great video as always mate 😉...I think I'll go for a walk myself it looks like a lovely day..at least out my window 👌🏼.
Ya know what I always wondered is...back in the day when people would go for a walk, they would sometimes say "I'm off to take my evening constitutional.".
Curious phrase....🤔
Who else saw a line-up of Thoughty2 run-walking??? Perfect fit.
I never would have thought that listening to an audio about walking for 21 minutes would be so interesting. Thanks for that.
Can't believe this was THING at all. I guess I should walk mora often and drive alot less
It would add years to your life.
I had the distinction in July of 1976 of meeting Plennie Wingo, the guy who walked backwards. I have pictures. He had little rear-view mirrors on his glasses, and was at that time walking along US route 395 near Bishop California. He was 81 at the time.
My 4x great grandfather was a British sailor who jumped ship in Valparaiso Chile and walked the coast all the way to San Francisco CA for the gold rush. As the crow flies that's about 6,000 miles according to Google, and of course following the few established roads and paths of the time would have been a much farther distance.
one of the best uploads recently
Does anyone know why most of the pedestrians shown had some small object in their hand? Were these used as a tool for establishing and maintaining balance when the pedestrian grew tired? (Weston holds something similar to a razor, and Anderson holds what appears to be a bow without the string).
Since no one else has given you even a guess to this good question, I will give you one. It is only a guess. You said one looked like a Razor, well from the sound of it you might want something to fend off someone trying to change the outcome. A Razor, or knife is small but effective and never needs reloading. I hike a fair amount and find a walking stick to be very useful. It helps keep your balance, has literally stopped me from falling after triping on something. It is helpful in climbing up a hill or stepping up onto a rock, you can literally pull yourself up with it. Some people like a longer one, others like a shorter one. Beyond my suggestions here I don't have an answer for you. Hope this either helps or gets you thinking how the item they carry might be useful.
Knowing that he walked the same distance to reach the moon and back is one of the coolest things I have ever ever heard.
John Astley be like “Like a duck to water...”
Rick Astley be like “I’m never gonna give you up, I’m never gonna let chew dowwwwn. Never gonna run around girl & hurt chew.”
*Error: Unable to identify humor*
@@DZ477
Rick rolling is still a major problem in the inner cities and the project.
@Aaron Burr Atwood Ada Anderson lost her life in a tragic rick rolling accident.
If it's Chew then shouldnt the man singing be Han Solo?
@@aceundead4750 Never tell us the odds.
I love these videos. He somehow makes things like walking sound interesting
18th century : boring
21st century : snowflakes, safe space
You forgot Screentime, Traiblazer, & B-.
@@conradojavier7547 ohh those shitty marvel heros
T2 is amazing. He can make the seemingly mundane seem absolutely facinating
Sure, sure. Try and get the "me now" generation to walk two blocks to the store!
Since in some countries like Australia it is forbidden to walk outside "without an important reason" you can't even do it "legally" (of course that is a huge rabbit hole here).
This was great video!
"duracell bunny on crack" LOL
Gotta love ya channel pal. Receivin education along with humor in it. Can't wish for better education than this. Ya should become a teacher pal. People actually learn somethin from ya as educator
I'm guilty of engaging in spontaneous race walks. I lost all of them.
Really cool and informative video! Haven't heard of this sport even before. Unreal how much they walked back then. Nowadays in the Netherlands we have the "Nijmeegse 4-daagse" which is a event where people walk 40 km (25 miles) every day for 4 days and supposedly it's pretty darn hard, but it's nothing compared what they did back then!
I was in Greece at the 2004 Games and I remember laughing when they announced “race walking” 🤣
Yes I read about the Regents walking and fighting in the biography of Captain Barclay Alardyce. A brilliant read indeed.
Pov: you've never been this early to a Thoughty2 video and you don't know what to say and can't come up with something witty and funny
exactly
well i guess you kinda walked into that one... heh heh
Yes
No.
Pov: this dudes not using "point of view" right lol
I personally know the first woman to ever cross Alaska solo. And she did it over the winter.
Her story is amazing, and though little known, is well documented. She's alive, and very approachable. You might wanna check her out.
Just Google "Reinette Senum Alaska". You'll find her.
I think I’d enjoy walking too if I were coked up the whole time
The stuff you get me to listen to, simply because you’re doing it, is amazing😹😹😹
"Boots were made for walkin"
Just subscribe after watching this.
Now time for some binge watching!😁👍
If Weston had ADHD, there a chance that cocaine did make him sleepy.
The "discoverer" of ADHD admitted on his deathbed that ADHD is BS and that he made it up.
@eyeoftheebeholder00
ADD and ADHD “Run” (pun intended) in adults as well you know
I'm Canadian so we have Terry Fox who ran across Canada east-to-west... also he's an amputee.
Juss gonna point out the fact that thoughty2 is getting fed by another man at 11:22
NOT THE CROWD CHEERING "KEEP WALKING" @ 2:18 LOL😭😭😹😹💀😹😹😭😭
"Pure human decency" back before "diversity" became our "strength"
Thank you for taking with us all some time .
I like the Hindu version a lot better..
"Hey let's see who can better purify themselves by walking on top of burning hot coals" 🔥😂👍
did you just trick me into watching a video about competitive walking even though I intentionally skipped out on it the first time before you changed the title?
I’m not the only person that read that title wrong
ONE OF YOUR BESTS! (AND THAT'S VERY, VERY GOOD).
The next generation is doomed,
Replacements of these events are:
Uber/taxi's/home delivery/Internet/NHS/dole budgers.
One evening in 1979, after not having contacted him for some time, I telehoned my brother .. to find that he was getting married the next day. There was no way I could ensure getting to the church by public transport so I set out to walk just over a hundred miles ... in twenty hours ... walking through the night, often taking short cuts along country lanes. I made it with a couple of hours to spare.