rescheduling

I had thought about leaving for my four-day walk tonight, but I'm going to leave on either Monday or Tuesday—120K from Incheon to Yangpyeong. Once I'm in Yangpyeong, I'll decide on whether to do a fifth day out to Yeoju since that's one of my favorite segments of the early part of the Four Rivers. If I document the practice walk at all, documentation will appear at the new walk blog. 

Monday and Tuesday are both rain days, but if I start from Incheon very early on Monday morning (i.e., find a motel on Sunday night and stay overnight before starting out), I ought to be done with the walk in the very early afternoon, by the time the rain starts (it's forecast to be an afternoon rain starting around 3 p.m.). Tuesday, the forecast is also for an afternoon rain, so again, if I start early in the morning, I will, at worst, hit only the beginning of the day's rain.

How rainy October can be surprised me last year and was part of the reason for my "downfall," i.e., the injury that took me out for a month before I got back on track. I'm hoping that November will be largely rain-free, but you never know. Without being as bad as the Pacific Northwest, Korea is nevertheless the land of precipitation. I'll anticipate better this time and thoroughly tape up my feet to prevent the sort of nonsense that happened during that heavy rain last year. The last thing I want is to injure myself on a practice walk.

Of course, even more basically, I'm doing this walk to see whether I can, in fact, do such walks anymore. It may be that I can't. It may be that I can only do such walks by stopping every ten meters. I've got to find out what my relationship with food will be like on walking days. If eating + walking = angina, I need to know how bad that problem is going to be. If it's prohibitively bad, the purpose of this practice walk is to push me to cancel the big walk.

As always, fingers and tentacles crossed.