Race the Distance - Stonehenge Virtual Challenge

Photo from the Race the Distance website

Our next holiday adventure, although still in the planning stage is coming together. We will visit Norwich for a few days where we hope to catch up with friends and also enjoy Mr C’s 60th birthday present from last year. The present is an afternoon seas rather than an afternoon tea.

Our next destination will be a short hop on the train to London where plan to visit the Tower of London and see the ceramic poppies that have been reinstalled in the moat to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day. After some consideration we have settled on Windsor where the train station is next to a hotel we have previously stayed in.

Walking to Stonehenge

By now I am sure you are wondering where Stonehenge and my ‘Virtual Challenge’ fits in. I planned to purchase this medal and walk the virtual distance later this year but when Mr C suggested that we visit Stonehenge on the way home from Windsor it made perfect sense to start the 199 mile challenge now.

The virtual walk starts at the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales and finishes at Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The Preseli hills are where the huge Blue stone rocks are thought to have originated from.

It will be touch and go for me to reach the virtual distance to Stonehenge before I actually arrive there in person.

Stonehenge

6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 22nd 2025

6 Responses to “Stonehenge Virtual Challenge”

  1. Pradeep says:

    I have heard about Stonehenge in Wiltshire and also read about it. I would like to see it some day. Maybe the next time I am in England!

    • CherryPie says:

      If you do get the chance to visit I would recommend walking to the stones from the visitor centre.

      The stones are not immediately visible and they reveal themselves as you walk through the landscape (second photo in my post).

  2. Good luck with the challenge! It’s been a few years since I visited Stonehenge.

  3. I have never been inside there.
    I don’t know why they have to stop people getting too close to the stones.
    But they have been around sooooo many thousand of years.

    • CherryPie says:

      There are too many tourists to allow regular access to the area around the stones. The amount of visitors would erode the site away and idiots would try to chip pieces off the stones as a memory of their visit. This is sad but true.

      I have been inside the stones when i was a child but it would be fair to say that I didn’t appreciate what they were at the time.

      You can still go inside the stone circle outside normal visiting hours but you have to book a slot.

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