Our friends from Essex and Herts were quick off the mark last week with their first 'rule of six' walk' PHOTO Gill Struthers
Our webmaster Gavin has been busy collating the group's social walks so far, either through the entries on the walks database or, prior to that, old Striders. As far as I know, this is the first time we've had a 'league table' of social walks and leaders, and it makes interesting reading in the run-up to the restart of our walks programme. You'll notice that the most frequently-trodden areas are south of the capital, with Hampshire and Surrey dominating in the manner of Manchester City and Liverpool in the Premier League. Meanwhile, just as Harry Kane sits on top of the table of this season's Premier League goalscorers, Jerome Ripp heads London's Walk Leaders' Roll of Honour...
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LDWA London Walks League Table
Since our first walk in August 1994 we've had 1,374 social walks of varying hues, led by 130 different people, and starting from no fewer than 441 different locations, of which 191 have only ever been used once! The shortest advertised walk was 4.5 miles, the longest 62. Most popular walk lengths have been 7 miles for an evening walk (76 times) and 20 miles for a day walk (232 times).
The top 5 walk leaders are as follows:
Jerome Ripp
114
2004-2020
Ron Williamson
63
2015-2020
Lonica Vanclay
62
2004-2020
Susanne Waldschmidt
54
2004-2020
Peter Buchwald
48
2009-2019
Top 5 starting points (with a tie for 5th)
Guildford
36
1997-2019
Petersfield
27
1996-2019
Richmond
25
1995-2019
Sevenoaks
21
1999-2020
Dorking
19
1997-2020
Lewes
19
1998-2020
Jerome, the Harry Kane of walk leaders
And finally...
With our programme restarting this month, all these weeks of solitary walking are coming to an end and instead of this:
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...we'll be back together again. Happy non-solitary walking, everybody!
