I’ve spent a while looking through a mix of various SWCP GPS tracks from various sources and now have a fairly complete single track which has the complete route.
I had to hack around with the file to transfer elevation data from other sources into the GPX file, then wrote a little app to split the route by elevation.
Here’s an example where each day is set to be almost exactly 1560m of ascent, getting the whole path done in 20 days (my complete track has an elevation of around 32,000m).
This isn’t going to work though – the third day is 52 miles (!), and the first few are in the low 20’s as it’s pretty hilly in Somerset.
But I’ve got some parameters to play with, and can keep tweaking to determine approximate stop points for each day. Then I’ll have to look around and figure out “accommodation” in that area.
Having said that, I’m planning on being very flexible, so I’d be incredibly surprised if I’m stopping at any pre-planned points after the first few days.
The 5 A-Z map books have arrived at home, just off to run back from work now bringing my running up to 50 miles in 4 days so far this week which feels like a pretty decent amount with 5 months to go…
Nerdy Numbers
For the nerds, here’s the output of my app above for each day:
Totals ascent: 1575.75, distance: 23.7415978662107 miles
Totals ascent: 1568.6, distance: 21.5111515743212 miles
Totals ascent: 1566.95, distance: 52.3794848407281 miles
Totals ascent: 1592.08333333333, distance: 17.2849213881955 miles
Totals ascent: 1562.16666666667, distance: 22.1157263505314 miles
Totals ascent: 1563.41666666667, distance: 25.9466561852134 miles
Totals ascent: 1571.81666666667, distance: 38.1206929523918 miles
Totals ascent: 1562, distance: 38.4663759847383 miles
Totals ascent: 1574.33333333333, distance: 36.9318170347537 miles
Totals ascent: 1568.15, distance: 30.5954271741702 miles
Totals ascent: 1567.76666666667, distance: 38.7520456416768 miles
Totals ascent: 1568.58333333333, distance: 25.8909009084384 miles
Totals ascent: 1562.95, distance: 28.0028414018874 miles
Totals ascent: 1565.75, distance: 34.2594189688704 miles
Totals ascent: 1567.79801587302, distance: 32.0625394588702 miles
Totals ascent: 1563.90476190476, distance: 26.2851729329516 miles
Totals ascent: 1569.23333333333, distance: 29.6921674127108 miles
Totals ascent: 1562.66666666667, distance: 28.9526442352098 miles
Totals ascent: 1567.46666666667, distance: 42.9849986675433 miles
Totals ascent: 1431.83333333333, distance: 26.7261862164952 miles
Overall total ascent: 31233.2194444444, distance: 620.702767195907 miles