What will happen if I try and walk 100 miles with breaks just for snacks and water?

What will happen if I try and walk 100 miles with breaks just for snacks and water?

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You'll have probably ended up walking 100 miles while taking a couple of breaks for snacks and water.

Honestly nothing much will happen. You will be very tired at the end of it and if you are looking for any muscle gain, you will receive so little it is not worth it.

If you are doing this to test your willpower, it is not a bad idea, but might eat up a lot of time that could be better spent doing other, more beneficial things.

you need to walk another 400 miles. then turn around and walk back just to fall down at her door

Blisters. Lots of them. Look at ultra Marathon and iron man athletes at the end of their runs. Their feet get torn to shreds

Not looking for muscle gain just want to do it to do it I suppose.
Would probably start walk on a Friday evening and make it back sometime Sunday.

Even at a walking pace? I was thinking to bring socks and swap out maybe 12 hours or so.

Assuming the average walk speed of 3 mph, which doesn't take into account the severe exhaustion you'll eventually experience, that's 33.3 hours of straight walking. I mean, it's feasible, but I'd throw some nap breaks in there if I were you.

i see what you did there

If this were me, and I have actually considered this before, I'd save up a couple hundred dollars and split it into 4 days. Walk 25 miles, towards a cheap motel roughly in that area, refuel, sleep, repeat. Preferably sleeping all day and walking at night, so as not to get sunburnt and dehydrated.

But that's just me.

You would need to take breaks for sleep, I imagine.

A hobbyist marathoner would run a marathon (26.2 miles) in around 4 hours. If you're walking, maybe it takes you 6 to get that far. That'd be around 16 1/2 hours to walk 100 miles. That's taking for granted that it'd get harder the further that you go. I bet, if your legs could handle it, it'd take you closer to 20 hours nonstop.

You could do it around a track, I suppose. That way you can make sure you stay adequately hydrated. Otherwise, it'd be hard to carry enough water with you and it would be more of a hike than a walk. I would want sleep at some point during 20 hours of continuous exercise.

Humans are capable of doing amazing things, so I wouldn't say that you couldn't do it. Surely there's something else more compelling that you could do with such a herculean effort. It's not like that alone would make you a good walker. It's not like that effort could "tide you over" for a month.

There will be plenty of water refill along path so I'd only take maybe 2 liters or so.
This would be in urban/suburban environment mostly so my bigger concern is somehow hurting my feet beyond just soreness or being victim of crime.