#virtuallejog — Public Fediverse posts

I've been working on a secret project this month. 20 years ago I lived in the UK and decided I had to go on one epic bike ride before leaving the country so in July 2006 I cycled from Land's End to John o'Groats - the length of the country from the furthest South-West point to the furthest North-East. The route that I took was just over 1700 km and it took ten days of cycling. It was fun, but also quite dangerous. A lot of those km were on A-roads, some of them on dual carriageways which are motorway standard except that they lack a safe hard shoulder to pull over onto. In all honesty, I can't really recommend it.

Anyway, the secret project this month was to ride the distance of LEJOG while doing all the usual things that I do each month. I decided on 1407 km as the target as that's the shortest possible LEJOG route. No need to push myself too hard this time.

I only thought of this idea in the second week of July. I'd made a good start with the 200 km ride that we did on the first Sunday of the month, but I'd also had a couple of relatively lazy days so I had fallen behind the ~45 km a day required to finish the distance in 31 days but not by much (I told you it'd be relatively relaxed).
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Bit late with this (been so busy) but last month I finished my #VirtualLEJOG walk. I completed all 1,188 miles on 18th June. Look at that fully green line on the map!

It took 292 days, so an average of ~4 miles per day. When I started, I thought a year for the challenge was optimistic, but I've done it in just over 9.5 months. A dry-ish winter & spring helped enormously.

I need a new challenge now, not sure what, but having a goal motivates me to get out there. I'll need to think on it.

I have 12 miles remaining in my #VirtualLEJOG walk (my Lands End to John O'Groats 'virtual' walk).

Soon.

Latest update on my (virtual) Lands End to John O'Groats walk. I know I'll forget to post tomorrow (the last day of the month) so updating today.

This month I managed 145 miles, which is my highest total so far. Had a few days away mid-month which let me get some extra walks in.

This takes me to 845miles total and, were I actually walking the #LEJOG route, I'd be just outside Linlithgow, to the west of Edinburgh.

Less than 350 miles to go! 🦵

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