Alan Cook
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More of this Feature • Part 1: About the Walk • Part 2: Sept. 4-10 • Part 3: Sept. 11-13 • Part 4: Sept. 14-18

Related Resources • Phase 1 of the Walk: 1999 • Phase 2 of the Walk: 2000 • Phase 4 of the Walk: 2002

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1. (Bonny's rule) She must be able to find me at all times. In other words, I have to stay on roads. This year I carried a cellular phone (called a mobile phone in the UK) for the first time. 
2. I can walk in either direction. 
3. I can walk the various segments of the End-to-End in any sequence. For write-ups of the first two phases of my walk, see the following sites:
Phase 1 | Phase 2  

Summary of the walk so far

• Phase I (1999) 274 miles in northern Scotland in 11 days 
• Phase II (2000) 215 miles in southwest England in 8.5 days. 
• Phase III (2001) 282 miles in western and northwest England, ending in Scotland, in 11 days. 
• Total miles walked so far: 771. 
• Total days walked so far: 30.5 
• Total miles estimated to complete the End-to End: 100 
• Average distance walked per day: 25 miles. 

A note on shoes-I wore one pair of Reebok shoes for the whole distance this year. I wore the same pair for almost the entire walk last year (and rested them in between). Even though I own 5 or 6 pairs of the same model Reebok shoes, this pair is the most comfortable. After almost 500 official walking miles in them, and an indeterminate number of unofficial miles, I have retired them. 

I wore two-ply socks (available at running stores) and powdered my feet with baby powder or cornstarch each morning. 

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