Before we had left last night the owner of hotel 1212 told us to come back and he would give us all a free breakfast and we could do laundry there. So after a huge breakfast, and wearing clean clothes, I started off running and immediately encountered the first of many hills.
For some reason I didn’t feel all that energetic when I started running at 11:30 and the hills didn’t do anything to encourage me. I ran very slowly up them and was exhausted when I stopped for a break and food after 15km. I felt a bit better for the second 15km but I was still pretty tired.
I have has some trouble keeping up with 60km. I’ve often found myself doing 60km, 40km, 60km, 45km, 60km etc. I had decided that instead of doing 60km one day and then struggling the next and only being able to do 40km that I would try and do just 50km instead, see how I got on with that and then slowly build back up to 60km. So I was planning to do 30km in the morning and 20km in the afternoon.
After the morning 30km, when I came in for lunch, I saw that Majid had his mattress out in the middle of the RV drying. His window had been open during yesterday’s storm of the century and his bed had gotten soaked.
We drove into the nearby town of Cabano for lunch. We met some people at the RV park down by the water. They told us that they only pay $1,000 a year to live in the trailer park, and it was very nice and right on the water. The only catch was you had to have a boat parked at the marina in order to stay there. Still seemed like a pretty good deal to me.
They let us dump out all the water we had recently filled up as we only discovered after filling that it was well water and we couldn’t drink it.
I started running again later on around 6pm. I felt great that last 20km. My legs didn’t hurt, my feet felt good, I didn’t feel tired, I wasn’t thirsty, there was no headwind, the temperature was perfect, the sun was setting and the scenery was beautiful.
Over dinner that night Majid told us about his experience midget tossing. I’m not kidding, he described the harnesses they wore, the mats he threw them on, and how the midgets would help by giving them a running start. I didn’t believe him until he showed us a video of them doing it. Only $5 on Thursday nights in Vancouver!!!!
Tomorrow I enter Riviere-du-Loup and Bert is planning to come run 10km with me!
You're doing an amazing job, Riley. Very much enjoying your blogs. Here's a thought for future blogs: What do you think about over all those miles? I assume the thoughts mirror the particular place or the predicament. Near 50k it has to be the pain. At the start, the enthusiasm. And during? Does it 'run' the gamut from the incidental to the deeply emotional? Let us know.
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