Day 43 June 18, 2011 Les Bricailles to Trois Rivieres 51km
18 Jun
No breaks!
I swear Paul doesn’t sleep. He’s wide awake when I go to sleep at night and he’s wide awake when Mike yells at me to get out of bed in the morning. And, he’s a cooking machine! Yesterday he made eggs; this morning he made eggs and pancakes!
After talking with Gwen yesterday, the guy who’s running across Canada the other way, I decided to try and run all at once today. He started out at the same distance as me, 50km/day and now he’s up in the mid 70s. And he doesn’t stop much. He gets water/food every 8km and breaks for about 10mins for lunch, otherwise he just keeps moving. So that was what I was going to do today.
I started off slowly, about a minute slower per km in order to keep to my plan. I felt pretty good until around the 25km mark when it started to get really warm. At 30km Mike handed me a sandwich and some chocolate milk out the window for my lunch and I kept going. I had to stop to put on sunscreen though and once inside the MCC I got sucked in to listening to Tucker Max for about 20 mins. I also decided to change my shirt, as the black one I was wearing was way too hot.
I started up again slowly, my pace well below what it usually is, but I kept plugging away and but the end of the run, at 51km, it was only 4:15pm. Awesome!
My feet hurt more than usual today though, and I’ve got a lot of new blisters. I’m not sure at the moment why that is, the only thing I seemed to have changed is that I’m taking fewer breaks.
Mike and Paul chatted all day in the RV save for the few times they took turns coming out to run for a bit. I’m not sure what they talked about, but every time I passed by and looked inside the two of them were laughing.
I finished listening to The Host today. It was kind of slow so I’ve decided to listen to something with a little more action: SEAL Team Six – Story of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper. I passed through a number of small towns, a lot of countryside and by some enormous hydrogen plant. I finished at a gas station that seemed to be the centre of activity. In the short time I was there stretching and filling up with gas we saw a Harley Davidson, Mustang, and Hot Rod convention of sorts. I don’t know if they were all together or three separate functions.
We found another RV site and again they let us stay for free. These RV campgrounds are pretty sweet, definitely better than random parking lots. With all this extra time in the evening from finishing earlier perhaps I’ll be able to catch up on my blog…
I’ll try going without a break again tomorrow.
