Day 2 - I hate fitter people than me :)

(still back blipping my trip to the vierdaagse in nijmegen, walking 160km with blipper pippiline (her feet are on the blip). It started on sunday 13 if you are curious)

Day 2 is waaaaay harder than day 1. We were warned it is the worst day and we certainly are way slower getting everywhere, and by the end of the day the last kilometers are a pain. The landscape feels less fun, the weather is less nice...

There's still loads of cheerful people, and free nibbles, and music, and strange meetings - but the day still feels long and a bit painful.

The blip image is a break by the side of the road, watching other walkers come up. I think it reflect the way the day felt long and tiring pretty well.

I hadnt slept well in the noise (not only the sleepers, snorers, but the party sounds outside and people in the stairs making noise throughout the night) plus we were still tired from the day before.

Pipp has some nasty blister, I have pain where it seems my shoe is squeezing my ankle too much (it is, i will find out later), plus tiredness, plus really puffy feet. My pain is less if we walk fast, hers less if we walk slow. But we manage to keep walking :)

We start to find the simplest things funny, from the way people look, to private jokes like going "blah blah blah" at each other when we missed what the other said (in all that noise and crowd it is easy to do).

Whenever I see something neat I am reminded how I was looking forward to this not just for me, but to have all these tales to tell my mum for a change - and it makes me all teary (2 nights without sleep will do that). It didnt do that the first day I was too happy to have it get to me, but today it does.

Then some teenage girls cross the street right in front of me and make me stumble and fall. I manage to save my knees and instead get an ugly bruise on my shoulder, but it is nearly too much for me - with the lack of sleep making everything worse I am one miserable camper for a whole kilometer. Pipp bravely puts up with it.

In spite of all this I am still glad to be here and still enjoying the achievement, and the novelty of it all. So many intriguing people seen in passing, so many different ways to enjoy life on the road.

Must absolutely sleep tonight, though, else tomorrow wont be fun


Links
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Sunday 13 (travel) my blip - pippiline's blip

Monday 14 (waiting) my blip - pippiline's blip

Tuesday 15 (walking - the easy day) my blip - pippiline's blip

Wednesday 16 (walking - the tough day) my blip

Thursday 17 (walking - the better day) my blip - pippiline's blip

Friday 18 (walking - pain and determination) my blip - pippiline's blip