Walkathon Plus

There was a piece in the Times (Arts section) yesterday about Will Self, a Brit author. He's here to promote his new work, "The Book of Dave," which sounds intriguing and wacky, but you'll need to read about that yourself.
What was even more intriguing and wacky was the fact that he walked to Manhattan from Kennedy Airport (6 hours) and this is a normal course of events for him.
Here's a bit from the article:

Smoking is Mr. Self’s only remaining vice. He used to be a prodigious drinker and drug-taker, famous for late-night altercations, not always coherent public appearances and marathon hours at trendy spots like the Groucho Club. During Britain’s general election of 1997, he set a new standard for journalistic infamy by getting himself bounced off John Major's campaign plane for snorting heroin in the bathroom.

But Mr. Self has been clean for eight years or so, and some of the energy he used to expend on carousing now goes into epic hikes, sometimes as long as 100 miles — from London, say, into the Lea Valley and through the Epping Forest to north Essex.

Sounds like our kind of guy, right?