much longer than the shortest road distance, usually or more. The walk is still undertaken by road walkers, often doing the walk, like Sir Ian Botham, for charity, or as a "challenge walk". They typically take a month or even less. Some walkers aim to complete the route piecemeal, perhaps over several years, to achieve the walk within the time constraints of a working life and before the possible health problems of old age. Routes There is no continuous long-distance path from Land's End to John o' Groats. There are long-distance paths for substantial sections of the route, and where they do not exist walkers connect them by rights of way and minor roads. Most walkers broadly follow these routes: from Land's End to Exmoor by the South West Coast Path; or by a shorter inland route through Cornwall and Devon by minor roads and paths, the Two Castles Trail and the towpath of the Grand Western Canal across Somerset by parts of the Macmillan Way West, the Samaritans Way South West or the Limestone Link to the Peak District either by an eastern route using the Cotswold Way, the Heart of England Way (or the Severn Way), the Staffordshire Way and the Limestone Way; or a western route across the Severn Bridge then by the Offa's Dyke Path, the Maelor Way and the South Cheshire Way to the Scottish Borders by the Pennine Way by St. Cuthbert's Way and a section of the Southern Upland Way to the Pentland Hills, then by a western route using the towpaths of the Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal, then by the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way to Inverness; or an eastern route across the Forth Road Bridge to Perth and Pitlochry, then by Glen Tilt and the Lairig Ghru to Speyside and the old Wade road to Inverness. from Inverness to John o' Groats, either by the John o' Groats Trail, a mostly coastal long-distance route that is rough but walkable; a route that is mostly on roads with a few stretches of coast walking; or some walkers head north west from the end of the West Highland Way at Fort William using parts of the Cape Wrath Trail, then head northeast through the Flow Country of Caithness. However, this route is through remote country and requires wild camping. Cycling Official Road Records Association records: Rider