Actual Route and Distances

As you may have gathered from Gina’s blog posts, she had trouble with her Garmin bike computers on a few days – particularly at the beginning of her ride. Particularly troublesome were days 9 & 12 where, looking at the data, the Garmin just didn’t record several miles of the journey (so, if you look at the actual Garmin recording, you’ll see a straight line covering the period of time where the Garmin wasn’t paying attention at all).

Gina learned from this lesson and, from Day 13 onward, was recording on three Garmins simultaneously (previously, she was carrying the spares only so that she could swap devices in the event of a flat battery). Over these two days, there are about 15 miles of missing data – and we hope that this doesn’t invalidate the attempt in the eyes of the record books. For these days, I have included a reconstruction of the route (with the missing sections reinserted) for anyone who would like to follow the route themselves.

Day Number	Distance (miles)	Cumulative Distance (miles)	Ascent (feet)	Descent (feet)
1	10.05	10.05	503.0	628.0
2	42.12	52.17	2124.6	1900.8
3	25.96	78.13	1469.5	1212.9
4	24.60	102.73	1790.6	1661.4
5	27.71	130.44	1950.7	2505.5
6	44.23	174.67	1386.7	1585.3
7	36.57	211.24	2151.2	1853.4
8	29.25	240.49	1325.1	839.3
9	40.30	280.79	1610.0	2348.0
10	37.47	318.26	1933.0	1851.0
11	28.79	347.05	851.3	671.9
12	44.36	391.41	1666.0	1797.0
13	54.85	446.26	1339.9	1428.4
14	36.13	482.39	984.3	885.5
15	27.59	509.98	1554.0	1306.4
16	35.43	545.41	912.8	1131.5
17	44.85	590.26	1484.4	948.0
18	40.17	630.43	1019.5	1643.2
19	21.63	652.06	299.6	411.9
20	35.09	687.15	1048.7	546.2
21	33.86	721.01	1533.4	1953.0
22	41.99	763.00	1164.9	1086.9
23	45.00	808.00	1465.7	1569.2
24	46.87	854.87	1924.7	1933.9
25	28.57	883.44	1151.2	925.5
26	29.06	912.50	1600.3	1666.3
27	30.29	942.79	1776.0	1910.6
28	27.45	970.24	929.4	947.5

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Gina would like to thank everyone for their help and support. Thanks in particular to:

Paul Webster (the Paul in all these blog posts) and his wife for sparing the time to help Gina complete this epic journey.

Paddy Allaway of Velo Mate! in Harborne 07944339263  He gave Gina practical help and advice

The Bike Foundry 1539 Pershore road, Stirchley Birmingham B30 2JH who helped by giving Gina some items.

Finally, and (I think) most undeservingly, Gina would like to thank her son Pascal Harris (which would be me).

She says that without the help and encouragement of Paul and Pascal she wouldn’t have made it.

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