Ive finished! Ive walked 1200 miles in 7 weeks and 4 days! Ive walked along roads, through fields, along rivers, over moors and over mountains. Ive had all sorts of weather from scortching hot to bitterly cold, gale winds, fog, thunder and lightening, but on the whole I think Ive been very lucky with the weather! Its been very hard mentally and physically at times but also very enjoyable and life enhancing. The wildlife and scenery have been amazing and I was even lucky enough to see an otter and just yesterday a seal. I will continue with the blog during my recovery time in Orkney as I know some people are interested to see the amazing sights of these islands. My thanks to everyone that has followed my blog for your encouragement and your generous donations to Naomis House Childrens Hopsice. It gives me great pleasure to know my efforts will help to support such a worthy cause.


LEJOG - Lands End John O Groats

Thanks for visiting my blog... This expedition has been two months in the planning and training and will hopefully be two months in the execution. I will endeavour to entertain you with a few tales and interesting pictures of my trip as I travel the length of Great Britain in my Lejog challenge... so please call back and send me messages of support to boost my tired legs!

I am collecting sponsorship for Naomi's House childrens hospice. Naomis house provides support and respite care to people under the age of 18 who are unlikely to live in to adulthood. They have two facilities in Hampshire costing 45 million per year to run, serving sick children in seven counties. They are 93% funded by charitable donations.

You can sponsor my trek at http://www.justgiving.com/Malcolm-Woodford

Sunday 16 May 2010

Sunday - day of rest

Time for some accounting of the miles so far:

My original planning based upon measurements made on an AA road atlas (4 miles to the inch) had Broomfield as 164 miles. A more detailed analysis on gmap-pedometer has the distance travelled so far as 178 miles, an 8% discrepancy. Extrapolated over the entire route this means the total route will be closer to 1100 miles than 1000. So far I have averaged 22.25 miles daily which puts me covering 1100 miles in 50 days or 58 if I rest each Sunday. Throw in a few extra days contingency and the weekend break for my friends Stag Do and I will finish on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of July. Realistically there are too many unknowns with the terrain ahead and I will just take each day as it comes and not worry too much about the exact finish date though I still hope to finish in early July before my sister has her babies (twin girls)

Day 1 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729384 ......... 18 miles


Day 2 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729387 ......... 24 miles

Day 3 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729390 ......... 24 miles

Day 4 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729392 ......... 16 miles

Day 5 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729472 ......... 22 miles

Day 6 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729473 ......... 20 miles

Day 7 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729476 ......... 30 miles

Day 8 - URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3729478 ......... 24 miles

Total miles 178
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