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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5343786" data-attributes="member: 59506">Yup, that's about right. If you want to break it down a little more: A normal person over easy terrain (like a road), can walk about 1 mile in 20 minutes (faster if they are in a hurry, slower if tired, taking their time, or heavily weighted with equipment). That works out to 3 miles in an hour, which incidentally is the same as a Medieval League (which was defined as the distance a person could walk in 1 hour!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). So, easy terrain and normal person/pace = 3 miles per hour.  A 12 hour day of walking (with stops for food, rest, and "other physical needs"<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />) averages out to about 10 hours of actual walking, or 30 miles.  Adjust up or down for terrain, conditions, urgency, and fatigue. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>