From: pU@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <20030916113308.13238.00001302@mb-m15.aol.com>, xmarx467@aol.compost   
   says...   
   >   
   >When I was a young teen I used to calculate that I could travel three times   
   >farther in the same amount of time on horseback as on foot.   
      
   Nowadays, out here in the southwest, I ride an   
   ATB (all-terrain bicycle) and can cover roughly   
   three times as much terrain in a given time that someone   
   on foot covers. And that's considering that I   
   live in the mountainous southwest where my rides   
   take me from my house at the 7,500 ft elevation   
   up to 10,000-plus ft - huff 'n puff!   
      
   Interestingly, I've traveled the far west on   
   a bicycle - a road bike with 15 to 18 speeds -   
   and my average speed over all types of terrain   
   used to be 15 mph. I could tell someone I'd   
   be such-and-such a place at a certain time based   
   on that average speed and it rarely failed.   
      
   >when over flat, smooth ground I had a normal walking gait, without a pack, of   
   >4 mph.  This slowed with size and weight of pack or other encumberance,   
   >roughness   
      
   I hike most Mondays with a group of oldsters like   
   myself, and some of them carry pedometers. But   
   they usually don't set them for the shortened   
   pace that hiking up mountain trails requires. So   
   they end up showing a much greater distance for   
   a given hike than those with GPS locaters show.   
   The GPS technology is a marvel, considering all   
   the things it can do.   
      
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