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Day 67: Innerleithen to Peebles (7.5 miles)

As I am now on my 67th day out of a predicted 100-102 days total, I am more or less 2/3rds of the way! At this point, according to the digitised route I have walked 804 miles however... according to my phone and some calculation from Maria, I have actually walked 929.4 miles! It will be interesting to see the difference in the final total. I’d love to know the total ascent - again the digitised route says it will be around 111,000 feet. That’s something I’ll have to check at when I’ve finished but it will be at least that I think. Again I must thank my daughter, Maria Kemp, for doing such a great job of keeping the blog up to date over such a long period of time without fail! (Note from Maria: Blogging is much easier than walking!) A slow start today having made the decision to go for the riverside option today. I couldn’t resist popping into Coop to see how they were doing - the shelves looked rather more healthy than at Jedburgh a few days ago - but I just picked up an orange juice a...