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Statistics
Some random facts and figures you might find interesting or amusing! For a breakdown of each day's cycling, see our route log.
| Total distance |
29,169km (18,229 miles) |
| Days on the road |
615 |
| Days of cycling |
341 |
Rest days |
274 |
| Average daily distance (including rest days)
| 47.4km (29.6 miles) |
| Average daily distance (excluding rest days) |
85.5km (53.5 miles) |
| Maximum daily distance |
165km |
| Top speed |
69kph (43mph) |
| Some of the hardest days/stages...in no particular order |
Shashemene to Dinsho in southern Ethiopia - bad road, big hills, horrible kids!
The Moyale to Marsabit road, northern Kenya - searingly hot, rocky and isolated.
Crossing from Benin to Western Nigeria - appalling road, made worse because it was marked on our map as a "Primary Paved Highway"!
Mauritania between Nouadhibou and Nouakchott - sand, wind and salty water.
Western Sahara, Laayoune to Tan Tan with a plague of locusts.
From the Zambian border to Francistown, Botswana - strong headwinds, big distances and HUGE elephants |
| Number of punctures |
We admit it, we lost count. Less than fifty! |
| Most loaves of bread consumed in one day |
8 (Moroccan loaves are very small!) |
| Most efficient use of water |
4 litres - for washing, cooking dinner, washing up, cleaning teeth... |
| Cheapest mangoes |
1 pence each in Burkina Faso! |
| Worst meals |
A 'salad' in Ethiopia - which turned out to be a sandwich containing margarine, marmalade and cold, cooked rice.
Peanut curry, made in desperation in the Western Sahara out of milk powder, raw peanuts, curry powder, flour and a shrivelled green pepper.
Rice with spinal cord, Western Nigeria |
For more about the trip, have a look at our latest diary update.
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