Have energy fo the "game that is a foot"

I suppose there are few fictional characters that take on a character you think are real like Sherlock Holmes. He was born in 1854 interesting five years before the writer who invented him was born. His last case was in 1914 when he was sixty years old. In retirement the world's first consulting detective was a bee keeper in the English countryside. Dr. Watson and Holmes first teamed up in 1881 some six years before the Holmes stories first appeared in the Strand Magazines. It appears Holmes had an active career for about 30 years before he retires and occasionally enters the game.
Of course all of this is fictional and fits the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who like Holmes wanted to break away from the famous character he created. He actually killed him in the Final Solution and due to the reality that Holmes stories sold, wrote him back into reality. Because we have no record of his death many writers continued his adventures well into Holmes sixties. We see over and over Holmes being reinvented and yet we can always recognize him. From Gillette, Rathbone, Brett, and now Downey who physically is not Holmes still carries the spirit of Holmes in all his strangeness. PBS now carries a modern Holmes whose stories are no longer in a magazine but on a blog.
Well what does all this have to do with walking? Good point. If you look close at the person of Holmes most of the time he spends his time reading the papers and writing of peculiar interest to the science of crime detection. When he is on a case he will spend days without moving from his chair, smoking a pipe. Without a case he may brood for weeks in what appears to be a depression. But when the game is afoot he burst on the scene with great energy and physical ability. In the times I picture him with great aerobic abilities, can fight, and has great strength when needed. Ah the world of fiction is great, we can smoke and never exercise but when needed we have an athletic body. Holmes is a genius and singular in interest and he has the advantage that his creator can write the perfect solutions. I am one of millions who don't care we buy it. Holmes has fascinated me over 45 years. I have many interests but I don't mind visiting 222 Baker St. now and then. They actually have a walking tour in London related to his adventures that never took place. Amazing!
In life though, if we want to walk the countryside and moors or miles in London we got to walk three to seven days a week. Pipe smoking definitely won't help us. I like the smell of it but we know better. For Holmes the "game is a foot" was solving the crime or mystery. I suppose for you and I "the game" may be some interest we have. To refer to another detective who uses the "little grey cells" whatever it is that we are focused on it helps to walk. I have read several reports of how walking actually stimulates our brain to grow. So better than a tobacco filled room (remember those) get out and enjoy the fresh air. Keep walking