Planned to hike 40 miles in preparation for the 100 km one day hike in 2 weeks.
Lane organized the hike by joining various parks around the Washington, DC area. We were supposed to start the hike at 4:30 am from Scott's nature preserve park. I was already there at 4:30 and Ryan showed up a bit later at another parking lot. He didn't show up at the right parking lot till 5:00. However Lane arrived later than 5:00 and we actually started the hike at 5:30 am.
Most of the trail was flooded and I got into a bog up upto my knees. Took me a while to get out. Lane had also not done this trail and there were no blazes, just many paths that crisscrossed. We got lost and scrambled through steep hills clutching at tree roots and hopping boulders in the dark. We did maybe 5 miles in the first 3 hrs.
Then it got lighter and the trail was clearly visible. We started going at a faster pace and some sections hit 3.5 mph but maybe averaged 3 mph for the next 3 hrs.
We hiked for 6 hrs and reached a Macdonalds. Completed abou 14 miles around 11:30 pm. We picked up lunch then took it to a soccer park and ate there. We left around 12:30 pm and hike till about 1:30 at a fast pace of a little less than 3 mph.
The hike leader Lane was sick when he started. We stopped at a park and used the restroom and took a break for another 30 minutes. We hiked at a fast pace of 3 mph for another hour and Lane could not hike any more. We stopped at 2:30 pm and stopped for 15 minutes. He decided to hike to a road and then call his wife to pick him up. We made it to the road by 2:45 pm. Lane left around the 19 mile mark. It was just me and Ryan. We hit the trail just before 3:00. Ryan decided to set a fast face of 3.5 mph. By 4:00 we got to a restroom and took a 5 min break. For some reason Ryan started hurting badly and slowed down to a crawl. By 4:45 we had done 5.6 mph. A avg of about 3.2 mph. We then walked slowly for the next 1 hr 15 minutes. Ryan tripped and fell once and we went even slower. We made the remaining 3.5 miles to Georgetown and stopped in Barnes and Nobles and drank coffee/tea then called Lane to pick us up and drop us at our cars. Lane was supposed to see a doctor at 8:30 pm. Hope it went ok. Overall we did 28 miles and I took a lot of pictures (185). Will post them shortly.
We hiked for 12.5 hrs. The rest breaks were about 2 hrs. So we hiked for 10.5 hrs. I am estimating 450 calories per hour = 4825 calories.
Calorie intake= 3 Cliff bars, 5 Gu chomps, 2 peanut butter granola bars, 1 big mac meal, 1 African Autumn tea, 2 Gatorades, 1 electrolyte tablet.
Fluid intake: 2 gatorades, 1 water filled in the gatorade bottle, 1 12oz tea, 2 600 ml water bottle
Ambient temp: 57 to 59 degree farenheit.
Clothing: Nylon hiking pants, dryfit full sleeves shirt
Carrying a hip belt with 2 water bottles. |