We lept at the chance of a short walk around manly Dam on Tuesday night with Tracy's husband Vic and Charlie the dog. For us this was all about getting a feel for walking a track at night, using our lights and for Mia and I trying out our poles. Aside from the fact this track is relatively easy and therefore not a great practice run for nighttime bush bashing/boulder hopping that we do at times on the actual tracks, we did make some valuable learnings:
Lesson 1: Poles are great, love that pole
Lesson 2: Dogs eyes glow in the dark
Lesson 3: When we walk, our pace is too relaxed, we need to walk fast like Vic
Lesson 4: We now walk at "Vic Pace" not "girls chatting pace"
Lesson 5: We need to turn our lights off for night photos
This weekend, a biggie, Stages 1/2/3 about 40'ish kms, testing feet, knees, food and attitude. Starting to think about not sleeping and walking through the night, Katie's keen and everyone with experience says don't stop or if you do make it a long sleep otherwise there's no point. Even the old ladies we saw out on the trail said this. We think they're all saying this for a reason, so will chat some more this weekend about it. Will need heads to be in a different place if we do this.
nice work on the night stuff! Is Vic pace the same pace as "get the hell out of here; there's a guy with a big knife?"
ReplyDeleteTotally, but without the running down grassy banks as fast as you can go, then heading to the nearest police station!
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