Do you / did you run just because walking was too slow?

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If I'm going some place a relatively short distance away, I'll often run just because walking is too slow, even though I'm not in any particular hurry. Nobody else I know seems to do this.

Then, when I was at my last appointment with my psychologist who specialises in ASD/Asperger's, I noticed that the patient before me (a kid, but not all that young), ran down the hall to the reception area. I probably wouldn't have done that in that setting (it seemed kind of dangerous), but I might have at that age, and in other settings, I may very well have.

It got me thinking, though, that running instead of walking might have something to do with Asperger's. Do other people do the same thing? Obviously, this is only applicable if you don't have mobility issues that inhibit running.

I have a tendency to walk across spaces or vault over objects because it is more convenient. I do find myself running places too.

I've always hated running. When I was a kid people were always saying I walked too slowly. I seemed to always be late for school because of it. My mother, on the other hand, used to be always running or walking at a really fast pace, and it was all I could do to keep up with her. But she's told me that she's *never* seen my father run unless it was an actual emergency. I must have inherited it from him. Even though I can walk for long periods of time, running would probably give me a heart attack now, and my knees are bad.

Mine is usually the other way around -- I walk too fast, and I could step on less convenient steps and dodge everything on the way. And when I walk up the stairs, I usually skip a step up and jog the way down.

Others had to run to keep up with me and kept telling me to slow down and wait for them instead.

Unless I'm really tired which means I'm just as fast as the norm's if not a bit slower.

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Technically two of these answers are correct for me, I am disabled now and cannot run at all but prior to that I was so slow and running and would get stitches and be out of breath, but I am now still a relatively fast walker I think this may because I have long legs.

For me, running in public was a sign of an emergency, or a total lack of foresight. I did sometimes walk very quickly. Usually, I have used a bicycle for much better results without the jarring. However, when I felt excited even in my 50s, I might spontaneously flash down a hallway in a cat-like, silent rush.
Beryl Markham, an early aviatrix from Africa, ran everywhere most of her life. Great autobiography, with a rather gobstruck intro by Ernest Hemingway.

I sometimes find walking too slow (especially when I have to walk behind others), but often I just run because I feel like it. I run around school all the time, but usually slow to a walk around blind corners.

I once had a pair of rather stylish shoes with rather slick, almost flat soles. After one slip, I discovered that I could ski down a carpeted stairway, which I did several times a day.

I have never seen the point of running to a place, at best you will look like a deranged crazy person on the street, worst case you are seen as a dangerous deranged crazy person. Yeah just has never been a thing I wanted to test...yeah sure great some people will just think 'oh that is odd a person running down the side of the street' or others will think 'did they just rob a place, should I call the cops or run them over" So yeah generally I think it is best not to be seen in public running in what could be taken as a suspicious manner.

But over-all why run, it draws attention, I prefer to quietly walk than be some kind of spectacle.

I do hate slow walking though, especially in malls...it's like, ummm I can walk I don't need to go toddler speed, yet I'll have full grown adults walking in front of me with the slow pace of a confused toddler....If these people want to emulate toddlers fine but I actually like to walk when I am in a building looking at stores, so they could at least venture to the side instead of taking up the whole goddamn walkway so faster people can't pass them.

I don't run but sometimes I find myself walking so fast that I can't catch my breath.