Saturday, May 13, 2006

Pennine Way finished

Chris andI wandered into the The Border Hotel in Kirk Yetholm at 5.50pm, parched and hungry after a final day of over 29miles across The Cheviots in blazing sunshine for most of the day.

All the pictures of the trip can be found on this site here. Hopefully, I will annotate them all, currently they are in date and time order starting from Edale on 27th April.

The final barebone statistics of the trip are:-

Day 1 (27 April) - Edale to Crowden 37,606 steps in just under 8 hours.
Day 2 (28 April - Crowden to Torside 29,029 steps in just over 6 hours.
Day 3 (29 April) - Torside to Colden 35,763 steps in 6.5 hours.
Day 4 (30 April) - Colden to Cowling 28,385 steps in just under 6 hours.
Day 5 (1 May) - Cowling to Malham 31,186 steps in 7 hours 20 mins.
Day 6 (2 May) - Malham to Horton ) 33,293 steps in 6 hours
Day 7 (3 May) - Horton to Hawes 24,679 steps in 5 hours
Day 8 (4 May) - Hawes to Keld 25,793 steps in 5 hours
Day 9 (5 May) - Keld to Middleton 35.514 steps in 8hrs 30 mins
Day 10 (6 May) - Middleton to Dufton 42,703 steps in 9 hours
Day 11 (7 May) - Dufton to Alston 38,602 steps in 9 hours
Day 12 (8 May) - Alston to Greenhead 37,457 steps in about 7 hours 30 mins
Day 13 (9 May) - Greenhead to Bellingham 42,943 steps in 9 hours
Day 14 (10 May) - Bellingham to Bryness 29,340 steps in under 6 hours
Day 15 (11 May) - Bryness to Kirk Yetholm 58,120 steps in 11 hours 20mins

Making a total of 530,414 steps in 15 days or about 264 miles at a speed of 2.4mph including stops (3.1mph excluding breaks)

1 Comments:

Adrian said...

Congratulations on getting to the end, although given the amount of walking you do from day to day, it was always going to be a matter of when rather than if ;-)

7:12 PM  

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