By my reckoning that route will take me between 6 and a half and 9 hours depending on if I perform more like Loadpot Hill or more like Holme Fell. That's without faffing about with a map and compass. I'll think about it.
For my first day of practice I'm not even supposed to use a compass, I'm supposed to practice:
Orient your map
Brace Position
Attack Point
Handrail
Collecting Features
Thumb the Map
Which I've already done Handrail and Collecting Features intuitively just by using printouts of maps in the past and it being the obvious way to use them. But I'll do this course properly and attempt to do it as suggested.
Not sure if Loughrigg is the right place to practice day 1 as I'd need to use the GPS while practicing those skills but maybe it would work that way.
Needs thought since I think I've bored the forum with nav questions. I might not be a doctor but I'm not stupid - with an IQ supposedly of the 97th percentile I should be able to figure this out.
And if not I can go bore another forum with my questions
While I was writing that you posted some more routes. Thanks. I will need to buy an additional 2 maps (OS map sheet finder is horrid) to try those. Have now bought said maps, waiting for them to arrive.