How Far Is 500 Miles

How Long It Would Take to Walk 500 Miles, Plus How Long It Would Take to Walk 500 More than?

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The vast bulk of you have probably heard the song "I'm Gonna Exist (500 Miles)" before and probably more than once. The vocal, first featured on the soundtrack to 1993'southward Benny & Joon, is a pop-civilization mainstay, actualization in movies similar Pitch Perfect as well as recurring in How I Met Your Mother. If you haven't heard information technology, or if you lot would similar to hear it over again, here's the video:

I, as a very bored person, was curious equally to exactly what 500 miles might look like, how long information technology would take to walk, and therefore just how invested The Proclaimers are in existence the men who roll a thou miles to fall downward at your door. Thus began my research.

I started with Google Maps and tried finding a place that, according to the fastest possible route past foot, is exactly 500 miles away from where I live. I alive in Portland, Maine, and roughly estimated after a few adjustments, 500 miles is on Shay Lane in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. According to Google Maps, it would take around six days and 21 hours to walk to Bellefonte, PA, without breaks. Later on some enquiry, I changed those numbers to account for what a homo logically requires during the solar day to sustain a 500-mile walk (and 500 miles more).

"Untrained walkers can complete a two-hr, 6-mile walk at an easy pace, usually with no ill furnishings."

Assuming The Proclaimers are invested enough in being the men who get boozer next to you, I estimated that a person this passionate would walk, on average, around xviii miles a 24-hour interval, later accounting for sleep, repast, and rest breaks. Therefore, we tin can determine that it would accept around 27.7 days to get in at the destination. If, equally it says in the song, you lot were to walk an actress 500 miles, it would have around 56 days, all told, to be the man who gets drunk next to y'all. However, 1 should accept these estimates with a grain of salt — not all walking paths are created equal. Some paths are at college elevations, some are flatter, and weather condition obviously plays a factor, as well.

Or, you could skip the hassle and apply the locations of Craig and Charlie Reid, the twin brothers who make upwards The Proclaimers, to make up one's mind the atmospheric condition and where they might cease up.

Craig and Charlie Reid live in Edinburgh, UK (in separate homes). From in that location, exactly 500 miles away (on a path suitable for walking), at the virtually border of the Great britain, is the pocket-sized boondocks of Bluish Ballast. If you want to get technical, it's actually a eatery near the town chosen Two Smokin' Barrels. The terrain forth the path looks flat, with a number of fields and towns along the manner once you get past Lanchester. Before then, there are some elevated hills, and so I would conservatively add an extra day's worth of time to get across, which accounts both for the rain in England and the number of pubs along the way.

Before I go far at my decision, there is 1 issue we need to debate with. Though the i,000 miles walked in this song are walked to bear witness commitment toward a relationship — Da Da Da Dun Diddle Un Diddle Un Diddle Uh Da Da — from Edinburgh to the lowest tip of the Great britain, the farthest place one could travel past foot is simply 542 miles. Afterward i travels 500 miles to Blue Ballast, it is difficult to determine which way the person would become after reaching that bespeak. I would assume — despite their dedication to being the men who are lonely without y'all — that information technology would be the easiest path possible. What love interest would ask for more? It'due south some other 500 miles, after all, and then we should probably cut them a suspension.

Ergo, since the walk to Blue Ballast takes approximately 28.seven days and the walk to the final destination (assuming you go on the easiest road possible) takes an estimated 27.7 days, the time it would take The Proclaimers to walk the full 1,000 miles, co-ordinate to my estimates, would be effectually 56.4 days. That's less than two months, and in the grand scheme, that'south a blip in time compared to the lifetime spent waking up next to you. Da da da (da da da).

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