Bold Explorer Vows to Traverse the Length of Britain -- on Google Street View

At 27 years old, Matthew Partridge has decided to take up a great challenge. He will walk the length of Britain, from Land's End to John O'Groats. And Partridge has chosen a uniquely challenging form of travel -- clicking through Google Street View:

He said: "I can't be bothered with all the training, planning and hardships of actually doing the walk. That's why I've come up with this alternative."[...]

He's even limbered up with a bit of training — building up to two-hour stints in the evenings. He said: "You can cover 400 yards in about ten seconds."

And yet they say that young people these days have no ambition.

Link via reddit | Photo of Land's End by Flickr user Tanenhaus used under Creative Commons license

I remember reading a science fiction story in, I think, the 1980s, possibly the 1990s, titled /The Boy Who Walked Around The Moons Of Jupiter/. The boy --15 or 18-- in nothing but VR glasses and underwear, walks on a treadmill. At the end of the story, a reporter (the narrator) sees that the boy has pissed himself; he informs him of this, and the boy calls out to his mother to come and clean him up: "Mom! I'm wet again!"