Courtney Conley

And some of my favorite research on looking at that population with walking is relationship walking.

There's really cool studies looking at walking in groups for the elderly population and how that has a social connection and it improves their emotional health and it combats loneliness and feelings of isolation.

And that is the beauty of a walk.

Yes.

I think also, you know, it was interesting.

I was working at the running event in Austin, Texas, and I was teaching there.

And so a lot of the shoe stores were there.

And one of the bigger shoe stores had said that the majority of their clients now are actually walkers and not runners.

And I thought that was pretty interesting.

And I'm thinking to myself, I wonder why that is.

Like, are more people reverting to walking because they're getting injured when they're running?

Are they, you know, I'm making all these conclusions in my head.

I'm like, well, is it because we're going in the wrong direction with footwear?

Because we're creating the shoe that is basically doing the work for us and it feels so good and, you know, people aren't putting the work in anymore?

I don't know, but I'm certainly going to do my best to change that.