2023 in numbers

My stats for the year:

TOTAL DISTANCE IN 2023

  • Run (outdoor): 287 miles / 459 km

  • Cycle (Outdoor): 595 miles / 951 km

  • Cycle (Zwift): 1,519 miles / 2,426 km

  • Walk/Hike: 759 miles / 1,215 km

  • Total = 3,160 miles / 5,052 km (target was > 5,000 km)

Walk / Hike = recorded hiking & walking events, not general steps.
Total includes “other” activities such as SUP.

KEY EVENTS IN 2023

  • 2 x Ultra Marathons: Goring Gap 50 and Race The Sun 50

  • 1 x Marathon: Brighton

  • 3 x 10k running events: Mortimer Trail, Bradenham Blast and Compton Verney

  • 49 parkruns, including 12 new locations

  • 23 parkrun volunteering occasions

  • 4 new Historic County Tops: Ben Lawers, Ben Vorlich, Ben Lomond, Hill of Stake

  • 28 new Present-Day, alternative or previous County Tops:
    - England: Whitehorse Hill, Haddenham Village, Racecourse Road, Nether Hall, Mill Hill, Staverton Clump, The Slipe, Bow Brickhill, Corley Moor, Meigh’s Wood, Rednall Hill North Top, Bassett Avenue, Fort Southwick, Holly Hill, Liddington Hill, London Road, Heath Mount, Langdon Hill Southwest Slope, Blagdon Hill Farm, Niver Hill, Hanging Hill
    - Wales: Garth Hill, Tair Onnen, Mynydd y Betws, Merthyr Common, Pen March, Coety Mountain, Wentwood

  • 33 new OS Trig Pillars bagged

  • 3 international / island High Points: Pico de las Nieves* (Gran Canaria), El Toro (Menorca), Mt Etna* (Sicily) … *=highest accessible point

  • Completing the Surrey sections of the Greensand Way and North Downs Way

  • The Portsmouth Semaphore Line cycle route

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