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Posted: **Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:11 pm**

According to this afternoon's BBC Five O'Clock News a party of British explorers has just reached the source of the Nile, having walked 4,000 (four thousand) miles in 8 (eight) days. Wow! Some walk!

Posted: **Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:16 pm**

Not only that, but it was 60 miles longer than they were expecting it to be!!

Posted: **Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:15 pm**

petard249 wrote:According to this afternoon's BBC Five O'Clock News a party of British explorers has just reached the source of the Nile, having walked 4,000 (four thousand) miles in 8 (eight) days. Wow! Some walk!

Haven't heard it but unless it is a hoax, someone is going to have to help me with the arithmetic.
4,000 miles in 8 days is presumambly 500 miles a day.

Top marathon runners do about 25 miles in 2 hours, hence 300 miles a day, non stop.

It don't add up, but then it is getting late and the brain cells are slowing down. And it's still the beginning of the month.

Posted: **Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:18 pm**

Just read it on the bbc web site and now it makes sense.
80 days??

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