Possible Clues:

• Walking
• One way to travel
• Hoofing it
• Walking or running
• 'How to achieve a walkover (2,4)'
• 'If one is carried away one can't be this (2,4)'
• How walkers travel
• By shanks's pony
• Walking about 30cm requires no energy
• Pedestrian bit of poetry's certainly not uplifting at first