Hello CityStriders,
Happy New Year!
I’m just curious if there’s some information on how many % of CityStriders is actually running / walking / hiking / a combination of those. I’m a walker myself and started coloring the map of my home town (Otwock), nearby Warsaw and some other places in Poland. Too bad I don’t have much competition over here, but for now I love this!
BR
Arno
I do all 3 but I’m typically running new streets vs walking. For hiking “red lining” I think has been a thing for a long time now. I use CityStrides to see what trails I’ve missed in the Adirondacks and try to take alternate routes up mountains.
I started out mostly running, except for walks with my wife.
Then I tore the meniscus in my knee, so only walked.
Now I would say I’m up to 25% running, 75% walking, but am slowly adding more running.
Somewhere in the ideas forum there was a proposal for different color lines on the lifemap, based on how the lines were made (activity type).
I would prefer the lines not be different colors. I think it would be ugly and pointless tbh.
Sorry about your meniscus, did you need surgery? I tore mine last winter hiking a mountain. I dont even know how. I just thought I had overdone it until I couldnt bend my leg the next day. Thought I needed surgery for sure but a cortisone shot did the trick. My doctor was like, just degeneration from getting older. It took some time but I can’t even tell now.
I run streets that I haven’t run before, and then run/walk streets that I’ve previously run, just to help me recover and cover more distance. That said, I don’t have too many mountains in my city, otherwise I would definitely walk them, as I’m yet to progress to being a mountain runner. 
I also have a lot of small dead-end/cul-de-sacs to do, and for some reason, running those feels less strange than walking. As for different colours for different activities, if you could toggle that setting then I’d prefer that.
Steve
@dallas.devries Thank you. I did not need surgery. Just thoughtful recovery (no running). Slowly adding more running, and loosing Christmas cookies calories, is my 2023 plan.
Happy New Year!
Eric
Thanks for your answers guys!
I’m not running myself - I’ll admit I simply don’t have the condition to do so. Walking 20km is fine with me, running 1km… well I think I’d need an ambulance then. 
I’m also one of those who only walk. I’m currently #1 in my city and in the top 100 globally on the CityStrides leaderboard. That shows walking doesn’t have to be a disadvantage compared to running, which I originally thought would be the case.
Top 100 with walking is super impressive just based on the time commitment.
I run once or twice a week and walk the dogs on other days. Sometimes go for a lunch break walk depending where I am. It’s interesting to mix it up plus citystrides encourages me to get out and explore new places.
Great question! I’m a walker, and have become quite obsessed with ‘ticking off’ streets on CityStrides. I love that it makes me walk routes that I would never normally go. 
I walk. Everything I have done has been by walking and I am in the 92nd percentile.
Pretty much all of mine is walking, as I am too much of a lummox for serious running, but I also have managed to be in the top 20 (not now because I never am in the winter). The person who mentioned the time commitment is right, though. In the summer, I go out every night after work and get another eight to ten miles collecting streets, and every other weekend I try to do at least ten miles (and often much more) on both the Saturday and the Sudnay.
Just call yourself an “ultramarathoner in training”, then you can call it running or walking and both will be accurate.
This is a fun topic. I am strictly a walker (hiker when available) and have been for a handful of years. I was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of 50 (crazy that it took that long for it to be discovered) and committed to something I could carry on the rest of my life, and improve my lung capacity while doing it. I’ve always been an athlete, so the news was pretty scary, but after a few years of management, tons of strength training, and daily walking, things are now really good.
I decided that I wanted to document my walks and was frustrated that there wasn’t really a great place to do that, then I found CityStrides. I kicked off on the eve of my 55th birthday (April 7) this year, and haven’t missed a day yet. I try to get in 10,000-20,000 steps a day, and and really enjoy the mapping and accomplishments we get here. I am now ranked somewhere in the mid 500s overall with about 8 months under the belt, and look forward to seeing how far I can go in my first full year on here.
I was able to complete a handful of cities around the globe (Milan, a few boroughs in London, a few cities in Corsica), and am now settled in Los Angeles for a bit, where it seems I’ll never run out of roads.
I’d love to be able to toggle between runs and walks on the leaderboard, because they are quite different endeavors and I’d love to connect a bit more with those who have walking practices.
And for what its worth - with my commitment to walking daily, no matter where I am, has dropped my weight from 162 to 150, and my lung capacity is now 125% what a non-cystic fibrosis male my age is expected to have. All to say that I’m grateful for this platform and the community that keeps me moving.