We went for a walk through hardcastle crags near hebden bridge this morning with our pooch. We tend to walk as a strung out group and the dog always seems to be trying to shepherd us together, running for the lead person back to the person at the back. She doesn’t run off out of control or off the path so I wondered how much further she walks/runs.
With a little gps logger, it turns out it is twice our mileage. We did 4, she did 8 miles.

Did she get any KOM?

Ha. No..she didn’t go in any one direction long enough…back n forth..back n forth. I was thinking she might beat some fell runner types when it was uploading but no luck.

Interesting. We always joke that the dog walks twice as far as we do – seems it’s true!

Fellow dog owner and that would have been my guess – double or perhaps even more.

Brilliant, which tag did you use? Considering getting simple tags for my kids so they can compared their rides against each other (only slightly competitive brothers!).

It’s well known that dogs cover twice the distance. You’ve just proved it.

I used a little igotu logger thing from maplin that I had hooped onto her collar.

I took it a step further earlier this year:

Me – phone
Daughter – old phone
Dog – garmin 500

Results were dog double my distance and daughter splitting us evenly

I admit this is deeply geeky 🙂