[RedDevil]

A new record today: 30 kilometer in one go!
That's about 18 miles and more feet than fit in all the shoes I own.

Colijnsplaat - Oosterscheldekering v.v. (the map is an approximation as it does not display 100% of the walking trails in the route); starting entirely along the coast and mostly inland on the back end.

I took my time at a leisurely 5.8 - 6 km/h so it took over 5 hours. But I could have kept on walking way past that, despite the wind picking up to gale force and some rain in the last few miles. Then, as the wind was dead south, I 'hid' behind the sea dike again on that stretch.

It was my second big walk this mini holiday, as the day before yesterday while my kids, wife and mother-in-law were having fun in Mini Mundi, a big indoor playground, I walked 25 km from Middelburg via Arnemuiden and Veere back to Middelburg. Though shorter than today it was much harder, with several bouts of hail and rain and strong wind all the time. I had an umbrella with me and it was very hard to keep on to it.
Hail precedes rain, then there's a couple of minutes with just wind. Hail Pluvius, rinse and repeat. No wonder thet for the whole 8 km of the unpaved walking stretch along the Canal through Walcheren (from Veere to Middelburg) the only oncoming 'traffic' was a hare!

Yesterday I was out for an hour only, but this time the wind was so strong that I could open nor close my umbrella, so when I finally got it open I left it like that. Two of the beams collapsed though allowing the edges to flap wildly, tearing holes in the fabric and spraying drip water around ... my gloves were soaked and at 3 degrees above freezing one hour was really the limit I could endure.

So today was a walk in the park really. Ah well, I now know I can do 30 km and still have adequate reserves. I may indeed do a commute on foot one day