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This is vital for planning your routes. If you can calculate your average travel speed you will know how many hours or days it will take you to reach your destination. This then informs you as to how much survival gear and supplies you need to either forage, carry, or cache along the way. Your average travel speed will be most heavily impacted by the following variables:

Weight of your Bug Out Bag - An average person should carry no more than 25 percent to 30 percent of their body weight in a backpack. More than this is possible but highly challenging, plan your Bug Out Bag accordingly. It is even better if you can try and perform a test carry of your bag over a significant distance when planning it. You need to be able to carry your pack for hours, if not days. Bringing too much weight will hobble your progress, bring only what you need to survive.

Terrain you will be crossing - The average walking speed with a pack is 2.5-4 miles per hour over FLAT ground. When considering your route you need to be aware of what type of terrain you will be crossing. People often make the mistake in thinking that hiking downhill is easier than uphill. This is often not true as hiking with a pack downhill will mean that you need to take special care to have proper footing and to brace your steps. Will you be picking your way through rubble or crossing a body of water? Plan a realistic pace as a part of your survival planning to have a better outcome.

Overall fitness - A very fit person will obviously be capable of covering more ground than an unfit person. Assess yourself realistically for this trait, there are no egos in survival. If it has been a while since you went for a run, plan accordingly. The great part of making a Bug Out Plan is that it brings to light your weaknesses. This allows you to address them BEFORE they become a liability. If your plan would benefit from additional fitness, start off slow going for walks or runs and then build up to conditioning your body to hike with the additional weight of a pack.

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