Your original post says, &#x27;baking&#x27; and &#x27;running&#x27; with no context. People&#x27;s ideas of seemingly simple tasks evolves as they get into it.<p>If you are just baking bread sure, you could do that with minimal equipment. But if you want to bake a cake, you need a cake tin, scales etc. If you wanted a really fancy cake...<p>If you want to run around the park, sure, pair of sneakers. I know ultra marathoners. When they enter a race they are given a checklist that they must have on race day. They have all sorts of gear to help them train. Not to mention the travel gear they need to get to the location their race is in.