"paddy spencer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:What do people consider a realistic, "good" average walking speed? All
the OS walking books and mags like Country Walking seem to have been
assessed by people who walk twice as fast as we do :-(
I'm 59 and fit enough to walk 15 miles over varied terrain every day for a
week or more with a pack of about 20 lbs. I don't have the patience to work
out a route and apply Naismith's rule, but I know from experience that in
pleasant weather on flattish terrain (say the C2C from Urra to Glaisdale)
with occasional short stops, I'll average 2.25 mph. On more
pain-in-the-[censored] terrain (say the SWCP in Purbeck or around Lynmouth), I'm
likelier to do 1.8 or so. As a point of comparison, the six-mile
on-the-road walk at home without a pack I do at 3 mph.