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4 mph takes talent, especially over distance. Andthat’s on hard surfaces. From what I understand walking on sand is deceptively taxing. I’d say 2-2.5 and not as
by hinkley 2y ago
4 mph takes talent, especially over distance. Andthat’s on hard surfaces. From what I understand walking on sand is deceptively taxing. I’d say 2-2.5 and not as the bird flies distances. So ten to fifteen hours of walking if your feet let you.
- stephencanon 2y agoThe desert in question isn't all sandy dunes; there's a lot of rocky or compacted surface (see photo), so you can make pretty decent time (but yeah, sustaining 4mph would be pushing it for most people).
- xarope 2y agoI've done 97km in 26 hours before, in the Sahara (I think we started around 8am, and finished around 10ish the next morning), which works out to about 2.3mph, so I'd agree 2-2.5mph is reasonable. hmm, [0] this says the longest stage was 91km in 2009 (I did it in 2015), so I could be wrong, but I'm going by what my garmin told me. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_des_Sables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_des_Sables
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- HPsquared 2y agoThe surface is hard enough to drive a car on. Walking can't be all that bad on such a surface.