To help keep his weight down, and to "clear out the cobwebs," Mr. Mintz gets up every day at 5 A.M. for a brisk five-mile walk through the tree-lined roads near his sprawling Bergen County home.

Sunday, a four- to five-mile walk through the Greenbelt of Staten Island, meeting on Staten Island in the ferry terminal after the 10:30 a.m. ferry from Manhattan; information, (718) 720-1593.

And so they faced the five-mile walk, down to the loop road which crossed the river and ran past both bases before rejoining the road it had originally left.

A five-mile walk.

On mornings when money has run out, as it had yesterday, they leave the motel by 5 for the five-mile walk.

The five-mile walk around the 3,000-acre Valley Forge National Historic Park in Pennsylvania begins at 1 P.M. and is expected to last about two and a half hours.

DOZENS of people are expected to join a sponsored five-mile walk at the weekend to campaign for an end to the killing of whales.

On Sunday afternoon Peter, the man with whom I live, and I enjoyed a leisurely five-mile walk, pushing our 18-month-old son, Wilf, in his baby jogger.

In an average year, 40,000 to 65,000 people participate in the five-mile walk.

Residents of Windham take part in the annual three to five-mile walk known as the Turkey Trot.