What is the average geocachers walking pace?

[bobo frett]

After a fair old discussion on the GAGB facebook page yesterday 22/12/12 about where to upload your gpx route to in order to view it, I got to thinking what the avg. cachers walking pace is. Are we faster or slower than a regular walker? Does the promise of plastic spur us on? Or are we that chilled we mosey along the fp's?

So I'm interested. What is your average walking speed? I can collate these and figure out the avg. cacher (I think, words I'm good at, numbers I'm not ).

I walked 7.7 miles yesterday over a 43 cache series and this was mine.

Avg Speed: 1.5 mph Avg Moving Speed: 2.7 mph Max Speed: 4.1 mph
I have no idea if this is good or bad in comparison to others. It is for me as I had no juniors or picture taking girlfriends (I only have the one) with me.

There are various websites to upload your gpx track to. Many gps' offer the track route feature which is then stored as a gpx file (I think, check yer manual).

Some of the websites are:

connect.garmin.com
gpsvisualizer.com
mapmytracks.com
everytrail.com

[eusty]

I've wondered that as we often check the stats on the GPS after a walk. But for the life of me can't remember what the moving average is usually

[frosty68]

I'm not sure about moving average, but we cache at about 1mph, there's no hurry
Might have a look on connect later

[northking]

According to Stevo185 he reckons on 1.8 mph. Depending on height of stiles, propensity to slip and looking for dropped logs or cache containers in the long grass mine is half that.

[martybartfast]

From todays outing:

Average speed 1.98 mph
Average Moving speed 2.42 mph
Distance 4.6miles
Time 2:20

However this was done in wellies, with a dog on a lead (which I don't usually have), and involved several attempts to cross what can only be described as a swamp! I'd expect to be doing over 3mph on the flat between caches on a normal outing.

[mollyjak]

Actually I have 3 speeds there is slow, very slow and stop LOL:lol::lol::lol:

[border caz]

My average walking speed is 2.3 mph. Going uphill it drops drastically and sometimes stops completely.

No idea what the average overall counting the stops and searches would be.

But I know I get round a lot quicker on a bike or in a car.

[Gushoneybun]

I tend to cover around 2.5 to 3 mph with cache finding, but it does vary. I did the Round Lyme series near Stockport, which was 11 miles and 53 caches in 4hrs 41mins total, that was all up and down hill plus some pretty boggy sections as well. Then I did a short walk on flat ground in Suffolk, found 10 caches in 3.5 miles and was back to the car in 1hr and 12 mins.