«In 1807 he [Robert Barclay Allardice] challenged Abraham Wood, one of the best known competitive walkers of the day, to a twenty-four-hour race, the winner simply being the one who'd walked the farthest in that time. Out of what can only have been sheer arrogance, Wood gave Barclay a twenty-mile head start, but then got into physical difficulties, resigned after six and a half hours, and subsequently died.» - Geoff Nicholson, The Lost Art of Walking, p. 71
Raison de plus pour flâner et non de faire de la marche rapide.
