LeJog

[highlandsflyer]

Someone on here was talking about it just a couple of weeks ago.

I would do it in late summer, and do it North to South.

 

[VEGAS!]

I would love to it one day. Its just finding the time. I would rather take a couple of months and slowly wend my way through all the places I have wanted to visit enroute. Do as much of the way offroad too. I guess i shall have to wait until i'm retired.

 

[highlandsflyer]

That sounds ideal Vegas. Perhaps do it in sections? One a year, over five years.

I toured for thousands upon thousands of miles but never set targets except when I had a particular need to. Setting out to do a hundred miles a day would just ruin it for me.

Ended up doing around sixty a day most of my touring, but if I fancied getting drunk and chilling out there was never a plane I had to catch.

Lots of people doing the end to end seem only to have a short time to do it.

All power to them, but I need to take in the sights.

"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?"

(W. H. Davies)

Could well be my motto if the family did not already have, "à chacun son goût".

 

[kingpippin]

I did it on foot does that count?

:shock: how long did that take?

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3 months!! I'm not particularly fit and don't really exercise much, so I just got stuck in and set of from Land's End (incidentally it was a dive and not much of a tourist spot when I went there).

I stopped off in my hometown of Bristol for 2 weeks work and a festival halfway.

The best bit was either Yorkshire or The Highlands, but on foot I don't think you worry about the mountains quite so much and there's all the lovely pennine way and offa's dyke path's you can take.

The real debate surely is whether to you want to blitz it on the roads in the fastest time or appreciate it a bit more bumping over birdleways and country lanes, struggling with sat navs and OS maps to find the scenic way?

Sustrans routes are damned good. But I got tired of walking down tree-lined corridors without a view left or right (mind you - that or a dual carriageway? No choice.)

Someone on here was talking about it just a couple of weeks ago.

I would do it in late summer, and do it North to South.

Downhill is it? That's the lazy way!!

 

[al]

Anyone on here thinking of doing an end to end, remember I am 7 miles from lands end and only a 1/4 mile off the a30.

You can leave stuff with me send stuff like bikes etc....

The offer is there.

al.

 

[cyfa2809]

i think you only really 'do' it if you take it slow and take in the sites as above
otherwise, its just going to be a long road trip/travel

 

[highlandsflyer]

The reason I say do it North to South is you get the colder part over and can generally expect warmer less windy weather as you go South.

Saying that the North Highlands is the place to have a party.

I used to play in the hotel at JOG back in the day, the parties went on for days, not that there is much difference between day and night at midsummer.

Now I am thinking about it, how much of it can actually be done off road?

It may add a few hundred miles, but it must be possible to do a huge amount of it off road.

 

[kaiser]

I guess theres a few schools of thought. I reckon simply by attempting the end to end you are taking on a 'challenge' rather than a site seeing trip. If I had the time a wondering route would be great but then again would I want to confine myself to going between Lands end and John O Groats? If I was to do it and not simply because of time constraints I'd be doing it at a 'good effort' pace. Though its all shades of grey isn't it? Between nonstop timetrial and kingpippin's wanderlust

 

[kaiser]

Now I am thinking about it, how much of it can actually be done off road?

It may add a few hundred miles, but it must be possible to do a huge amount of it off road.

This is a popular discussion, it would take a long time but alot of folks think its possible what with all the long distance walking routes there are now.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Yeah, it is the kind of thing that is easy to get obsessed with, thank goodness for online mapping, etc. nowadays, should be much easier to work it out.

Doing it is entirely another matter.