Virtual walk through the pyrenees mountains by having local walks and bike rides

This is the GR10 trail in the Pyrenees, many explorers from Boreatton Explorer Group have hiked along it in the past for various challenges such as Gold DofE

Since SBSMG haven't been able to go on any walks recently due to the pandemic we have decided to do a virtual walk.

There are 3 teams (which you can sign up for on Eventbrite) which will compete to finish the distance of the GR10 trail which is 866 km or from Hendaye in the west to Banyuls in the east.

You will be able to take part by submitting local walks and bike rides to us which will contribute to your groups distance. All you will need is a screenshot of your walk from any tracking app that shows your distance, this doesn't necessarily need to include a map of your walk so long as we can see the distance. This can be from any fitness app such as Samsung health but if you don't have one already I would recommend using Strava which can be downloaded from Google Play and the APP store.

When you sign up on Eventbrite you will be randomly assigned a group. If you are a family please book however many of there are of you but keep it in the same order (ie only click the register button once and there is a dropdown box to select how many of you there are), you will then be able to join the same group, you will however all have your own distances. For example if a family went on a 10km walk/ bike ride and there were 4 of you, you would contribute 40km in total to the groups distance.

To give a bit of competition the 3 teams will compete to complete the walk first, once this walk has been completed then another walk will be uploaded to the blog. The distances will be updated every night at about 9pm so if you submit your walks/rides after that it will be updated the following day.

To submit your walks and rides or have any questions please email the screenshot/ question to sbsmgbooking@gmail.com

Bookings will close on the 25st August at 11.30pm and you will be able to start submitting distances on the 26nd and stop submitting distances by the 2nd September. You will be emailed your team via the email you put in Eventbrite.

To sign up please click this box and book on the Eventbrite: