staring down the barrel of a 120-kilometer walk

It's almost that time again: starting on Saturday morning, I'll be walking out to Incheon once more. If you've followed my Seoul-Incheon-Seoul walks, you know that each day is almost exactly 30 kilometers of walking except for Day 3—because of a taxi cheat that I do on Day 2, the Day 3 walk is only about 22 km. Tonight, I'm doing one last, brutal practice walk of around 30,000 steps, then I'm resting on Friday so that my feet will be nice and fresh and ready for abuse on Saturday morning. From Saturday to Tuesday, it'll be over 40,000 steps per day... except for Day 3, of course.

This will be my third trek out to Incheon and back. I'm beginning to think it may be time for a change, so the next time I have four days during which to walk, I might either go in the other direction, toward and past Paldang Dam, or pick an entirely different path, e.g., a section of the ambitious coastal path that stretches 720 km from about Gangneung all the way down to Busan. I am, in fact, itching to walk that path, and I might do it next year, depending on my job situation (i.e., depending on whether my new bosses will be amenable to such a project).

As I may have mentioned before, I'm also impatient to do this current walk because it'll be a chance to test out my new Gregory backpack. It's going to be nearly empty while it sits on my back, but I want to know how it rides, so I'll be filling it with light things like my rolled-up foam mat and some random, poofy articles of clothing, just to fill out the empty spaces so that the pack doesn't look utterly deflated while I walk.

So: big walk tonight, rest tomorrow, then trekking on Saturday. That seems to be the plan.