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    YOUR ROUTE TO COMPLETING THE CW5000

    Jan 13, 2022 4 minutes
    Words Vern Pitt
    Photos
    Daniel Gould, Chris Catchpole

    HOW FAR IS 5,000 MILES?

    London to Kolkata, India

    The length of 76,628 football pitches

    10x round trips to the international space station (orbiting 408km above Earth)

    Over the circumference of Pluto (4,637 miles)

    42.7 laps of the M25

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