today's plan: depart for a brief stroll

My planned four-day test walk, 120K from Incheon to Yangpyeong, starts early tomorrow morning. Of course, my sleep habits and other routines are currently shot, but things will snap back into place as of tomorrow. I also have a diabetic toe wound from a couple years back that reopened a couple months ago (clipper accident while I was clipping away callus), and it hasn't healed, so I can expect soppy bandages underneath my taped-up foot come Monday evening.

The plan is to leave my place at 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. tonight, train out to Incheon, get off at Geomam Station, and dare the 3-kilometer gentle uphill from the station to my motel on foot. If I can't handle that modest slope, I might as well pack it in and cancel the walk tonight. I'll get to bed very early, probably lie awake for half the night, then get out of bed around 4 a.m. to be out the door by 4:30. I'll walk the 3K back down to Geomam Station, hitch a ride west one stop, then walk the 2-point-something kilometers to the Four Rivers trail's starting point. After that, it's a 30K walk to my first destination. I'll walk half of that distance along the Ara Canal first, then turn right and east along the Han River. When I reach the Gayang Bridge, I'll step off the path and go to my usual hotel/motel neighborhood to find a place in western Seoul for the night (as I've noted before, the hotels in Gangseo-gu are all predatory). If it's like every time before, I'll have new blisters and irritations after a total of 35K or so of walking.

Day 2 will take me from western Seoul along the Han, through and past Yeouido, until I hit the Tan Creek confluence and walk back to my place to spend my second night. Day 3 of the walk, I'll continue to amble east along the Han until I hit Hanam City, about 25K from my place to my usual motel there (the Baro). And on the final morning, I'll leave the Baro early and do the 35K from Hanam to Yangpyeong, a nice walk that's full of tunnels.

If I can hack the first night of this project, which is tonight's 3K walk, I think I can hack the following day (i.e., Day 1). If I can hack Day 1, I can probably get through Day 4. And if I can do all four days in a more or less timely manner, I can probably do 20 days along the Nakdong River at a gentle pace (what other pace do I walk at, right?). So—fingers and tentacles crossed for tonight. Any further walk-related updates will be over at Kevin's Walk 9.

Latest weather forecast (it keeps changing, dammit):

Monday: mostly rainy throughout the morning, i.e., most of my walk to Gangseo-gu
Tuesday: rainy all day through 2 p.m., so I'll be soaked on the way to my place
Wednesday: cloudy to partly cloudy/sunny, so it should be a nice walk to Hanam
Thursday: partly sunny all the way to Yangpyeong

None of the above might be valid by tomorrow, and the rain forecast keeps getting worse. Don't expect many photos, then. I'll probably keep my phone closed up in a Ziploc bag.