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While nothing interesting happening in my Elma life (I’m just playing random pipe levels and making Paprika) I write something about my latest sport project: 50km walking.

A week ago I was having good time with some friends and met there one guy who is into the adventure sports (long running, bicycling, rowing trips). I was interested in his hobby and we came up with an idea to walk some kilometres together. I told that I could try 50km, my current record was 33km or something like that (army treks excluded because I can’t really say how long trips we walked there). So there we were and yesterday at 10:00 we started walking with two other guys.

The first 20km went pretty well but then I started to feel pain in right leg, the speed of walking was faster than my own usual. Heart rate was near to 145 which is way too much for 10h walking. The other guys were OK (two of them are in totally different level with me, doing double marathons etc), heart rate 103 or so. 5km more and a few beers (yes, we had some booze and beers there, it was Saturday after all) later one of those sick guys called his wife to come get him and he left us. After that walking was much easier for me because we dropped the speed from 6-7km/h to 5-6km/h. The last 25km were easier (at least relatively). We also met px (Elma aspect!) and his girl friend during the second half.

In the end we had walked 52.6km in 10h 12 minutes. I was satisfied. Then sauna, some party time and sleep. Today in the morning I couldn’t walk anymore. My legs hurt so much that I can’t stand or walk. I move by using a chair as a walker (rollaattori). Quite painful feelings.

100km would be so cool to achieve, but that won’t happen in the near future. The next goal could be a long skiing trip because now my record is like 40km and skiing is much easier (like 2-3 times) than walking.