If she already walked 2.5 km and she goes back home wouldn't it be perfect for the egg to hatch?
Lots of people tend to forget that.
Though, in her defense, deciding to go home instead of heading to the next (unvisited) Pokestop is probably a good idea. She gets to go home and hatch that egg.
Unless she takes a car/bus; The travel distance still goes up, but much less than walking. Probably because it uses some kind of pedometer system?
Actually no. Based on datamined APK, the distance traveled calculation was made by activating GPS in certain time period and calculating the changes between the two points. The 'Speed limit' actually not 'speed' per se but leaps traveled per gps refresh-so yes you can get softbanned from gps jumping around because bad signal.
If she already walked 2.5 km and she goes back home wouldn't it be perfect for the egg to hatch?
She hasn't necessarily just walked 2.5 km in a straight line away from her house.
My left ankle is sore, too...
It hurts to walk...The Pokestops I haven't been to are a ways away...This stuff ain't fair to out-of-shape folks...I've been walking for a quite a bit now so that 5 kilometer mark shouldn't be far off!Gah!This appearance rate is...This is impossible.What's up with that, anyway?*huff**Been walking for an hourWhere the hell am I?T-The right...side of my groin aches...*ba-dump**puff*And my thighs are screaming out in pain...I think I'm at my limit...Even just visiting Pokestops is an ordeal...they're so far away...All the people I've nearly bumped into are also playing Pokemon GO.Let's see, how much farther do I need?*skree skree*CicadasAnd not many Pokemon have been popping up at all, either...But I'm already all the way out here, so I wanna hatch this egg!I'm going home.Let's GO back to my place...!