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From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:59:00 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:52:07 +0100 (MET)
Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt <hhs@cbs.dtu.dk> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Philip Loguinov, Draymoor wrote:
>> Does anyone know about how far an average person can wak in a
>> day?
> I once did a 50 Km march with backpack (tent, food etc.) in a day
> (morning to evening).
Legionaire 's pace, ie the walking pace of a Roman Legionaire, was 4
miles per hour. They also had a rigidly defined scaled march
pattern (walk so long, break for so long etc), with multiple grades
for increasing distance rates etc (which I don't recall just now.
Anyone?). It was in fact the distance mapping of the distance which
could be covered by a legionaire was what defined the distance
between forts and stages on roads, and in turn defined (in many
cases) where towns sprung up (to support the garrisons/forts).
Britain's development was particularly affected by this.
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