stepping out

I'm going on a long, long walk tonight to Bundang and back. That's about 50,000 steps and around 35 km, i.e., about the distance from Hanam City to Yangpyeong. I'll be starting a bit after 8 p.m. and, presumably, finishing a bit after 5 a.m. Sunday morning. Later on, I'll be doing a roughly 17-km walk with my buddy JW; JW proposed the walk without knowing I'd be doing the round trip to and from Bundang, but I said yes to JW's proposal because that, too, will be part of the test of my feet's endurance. I need to find out whether I can survive two days in a row of punishment; if I can, then I ought to be able to survive a month's worth of walking on the trail to Busan. If not, well...

Tonight, the weather is supposed to be cool and possibly rainy—not my favorite weather to walk in. I'm going, anyway. Wish me luck.