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Forager's day
8 km
How far a forager walks to feed a family.
Eight kilometres. An ordinary day's gathering.
- It stands on
- 5 km
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 5 km run
- Most weeks
- A run of about 45 minutes, in 7 of the last 8 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 2 hours on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of riding or swimming counting as 30 minutes
- Running itself
- At least 1½ hours a week
The story
In the years they walk most, Hadza women in Tanzania walk about 8 km a day gathering food. GPS tracking over 2,078 days. Source: Wood et al. 2021, Nature Human Behaviour.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- Forager's day