Title: Prague Yellow Line Walk Date: 18.12.2023 Modified: 18.12.2023 Status: published Tags: sport, prague, yellow line Keywords: sport, prague, yellow line Slug: prague-yellow-line Author: Andrey Albershtein Summary: How I walked along Prague's Yellow Metro Line in a day Lang: en
Quite often I like to walk from Zličín to Nové Butovice. This path has a really nice part starting somewhere on Stodůlky up until Nové Butovice. This is A bicycle path.
A few times I went to Anděl and even Národní třída. I though - well, can I go up to Černý Most? Can I walk the whole yellow metro line?
So, on Saturday 18th November I decided to go. I took:
- bottle of water,
- headphones,
- fully charged phone,
- list of podcast episodes to listen,
mapy.cz app,
with downloaded Prague map, to track my walk- a few medical patches in case of blister,
- and two apples to eat
I went without any stops (except traffic lights) for 5 hours 58 minutes in total covering 27.8 km.
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incredible. I calculated that I need about 2000 to 2300 calories to stay in the
current weight. So, 1600 is more than 2/3 of my daily needs.
Somewhere near Radlická I started feeling some muscles wanting to rest. Passing Vysočanská my legs were really hurting and I was thinking about making a short stop, but it wasn't thaaat bad. Of course, all of that was only muscle pain, no joints or strange unpleasant feelings.
Overall, this was an interesting experience. Now I thinking about going along Green and Red lines; both of them are shorter. In terms of joy, I think it's too long. My mind was really enjoying first 2 hours of the walk but then I needed to focus much more than is pleasant for a walk. I blame it on the fact that in about 2 hours I got to the city center, where I had to be careful in the crowd and is that muscle pain become really noticeable which quite destructing.
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