Lael Wilcox: around the World faster ..

[matticus]

Every road in Alaska?
Where there aren't very many roads?
Tough challenge 😂

There are about 4,500 miles of "highway" (on the mainland). I checked for you x

I don't know if that's 4 roads or 4,500 roads, sorry.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There are about 4,500 miles of "highway" (on the mainland). I checked for you x

I don't know if that's 4 roads or 4,500 roads, sorry.

Mostly it is long roads with few junctions based on my travels in Alaska. A lot of graded gravel highways such as the Dalton highway, which I presume would be included.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Already past 1,000km and not even 3 days in.

Like that map also shows current overall and women’s record.

 

[Sea of vapours]

Like that map also shows current overall and women’s record.

It's good that they've added the 'current record' dot. (For anyone who's not looked, the 'current record' dot is moving at the pure average of Mark Beaumont's total distance divided by his total elapsed time, which gives 9.60mph.) It provides for lots of ways to look at how the attempt is going.

One of those ways is to calculate out how far ahead of the dot Lael needs to be at the point when she reaches a flight. She'll take six hours flying,; add airport time at each end and contingency for arriving in time; so that's probably at least twelve hours total time for the flight. Conversely, the Beaumont dot on the tracker will reach Halifax and appear immediately in Lisbon, and carry on moving at 9.6mph. So in order to stay level after the flight she needs to be twelve hours at 9.6mph ahead, or 115 miles, approaching the airport in Halifax. Right now, she's 109 miles ahead, and that's been steady for quite a while now, given or take a mile or two. The longer flights obviously require a greater margin.