Today we all headed back home after our huge adventure.
We left John o’Groats at the crack of dawn (it was damn cold and windy) to make sure we could get to Inverness in time for our flight – the hotel staff even came in early to do breakfast for us – maybe that was something to do with prepping for 300 people coming in from a Triumph car rally around Britain.
There was a lovely sunrise as we headed down the road and it was quite strange being driven back along the roads we had marched along over the last few days. At Inverness we said goodbye to Lynn and headed into the airport for our flight. The flight itself was unremarkable and then it was time for goodbyes and to start plotting what we might do next year.
Here are a few statistics from this years walk – we:
- walked 1,421 kilometres / 888 miles (2020 was 1407 kilometres / 879 miles)
- walked an average of 41.79 km / 26.12 miles per day (2020 was 48.52 km / 30.32 miles)
- climbed 18,116 metres (2020 was 16,800 metres)
- stayed in 35 different hotels (2020 was 29)
- had only 1 rest day (2020 was 4)
- were joined by 50 people for one or more legs (2020 was 42)
- walked for an average of 7h 27m per day (2020 was 9h 30m)
- only stopped to buy coffee / lunch & east lunch for 32 minutes per day
- had an average walking speed of 10m 44s per kilometre
- walked an average fastest kilometre of 9m 54s
- walked an actual fastest kilometre of 9m 25s
- burned an average of 4,800 calories per day
- took 1.7 million steps (same as 2020)
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