I guess my assumption that they would have a destination (e.g. the Nile River which was 162 miles away from base camp) was invalid. In the past 2 days, my brother in law Keir has been on a race through the Sahara, but they are just running around a track with no real direction:
Running around the Sahara
They’ve only gone 16.6 miles away from base camp, although they will have finished up with 49 miles of racing by the end of today (probably a couple more hours).
Today is a 28 mile day and a half hour ago Keir had gone 21.1 miles, as the crow flies, with one hour updates, which understates mileage by probably 8%. This means he should be done in the next 2-3 hours hopefully.
Tracking Keir across the desert with GPS Insight GPS Tracking
I’ll keep putting tracks up on the blog for interested people (e.g. Keir’s relatives…).
Interesting to see this type of tracking though — it is not the typical “where’s my driver” stuff.
Rob.