> A person has a best movement rate of about 50 miles a day. This
assumes
> 10 hours of travel, reasonable terrain and carrying no real load.
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Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying, a person would be able to average 50 miles a day unloaded along a good, flat road - say a Lunar highway running along the Oslir River valley. IMHO, this is much too fast. People simply don't walk 5 mph. That is jogging speed, especially when talking for 10 hours of movement. 10 hours is a respectable finish in most 50 mile ultramarathons, and those folks are jogging the entire time.
>From my experience I would say 35 miles is a much more reasonable
starting point. Thru-hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail carrying
light loads across a very well marked trail with absolutely no danger
of being attacked by chaos or angry clan neighbors, will do 35 miles
a day a *few days* in the 3 or 4 months it takes them to walk the
2700 mile trail. That travel rate is in the flattest and most easily
traversed sections of the trail and is a good base, imo, for movement
rates. But of course YGMV.
Cheers,
Mitch
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