12-Hour Walk
I walked for 12 hours straight across New York City — here's why, and what it did to me.
- challenge
- nyc
- fitness
The idea
I wanted to do something hard on purpose — a challenge with no real payoff except finding out whether I could finish it. So I decided to walk for twelve hours straight through New York City.
No destination, no agenda. Just keep moving and pay attention to what the city, and my own head, did over the course of a full day on foot.
What it taught me
The interesting part wasn't the legs — it was the mind. The urge to quit shows up early and often, long before the body actually needs to stop. Once I accepted that I was simply going to keep walking, the noise quieted down and the hours started to pass differently.
This walk became the warm-up for harder things, including the 2-day fast I did a few weeks later.
I kept detailed notes along the way — the full hour-by-hour account, with photos and the route, lives on Notion.