Day 83 July 28, 2011 Lake Superior Provincial Park to Wawa 71km

Welcome to the 70s!

The day began in the middle of a cloud. The beautiful vista that we had gone to sleep with was replaced by total fog. I was essentially running through a cloud the whole day.

I was a little disappointed about only running 50km yesterday and was determined to make it back to 60km today. I felt good but today was going to turn out to be the hilliest day of the trip. As I ran, I quickly became soaked, as, while not really raining, the 100% humidity of the cloud and light sprinkling combined to leave me drenched. I had to stop to change my shoes and re-tape my feet after only about 30km.

Mike was asking when I wanted to stop for lunch. Usually I stop around 30-35km although yesterday I had stopped at just before 40. Today I was feeling really good and was worried that if I stopped for lunch, that I would get stiff and have trouble getting started again on these hills. So I kept going until essentially Mike got hungry, at km 45. I walked as I ate and as there was no place for Mike to pull over I continued on to 49km before stopping for a quick break and to change into drier clothes.

When I started running again though, I still felt good and when 60km approached I decided to keep going to see how far I could get. The answer, 71km. Awesome!

That distance took me a little passed the huge Canada Goose that marks the entrance to Wawa.

I wonder if I can keep up this kind of mileage.