(Spoilers Main) Just realised that the early books mess up distances (and battles) for plot convenience almost as badly as the later seasons

Everyone remembers our heroes strolling country spanning distances in weeks with no mention, and how jarring that was. But then I remembered with a start that Tywin Lannister invaded and conquered a dozen castles along the Red Fork in like two weeks after Robert died, and Theon and his Ironborn walking from the Stony Shore to Winterfell, which is easily like crossing a whole country, undetected in what? A week? Now it's a bit funnier.