Time and calories: the walk

Author’s note: This blog was written with a half -full stomach at the end of a day in Vermont that was not fed properly. The author is happily full of hamburgers and ice cream now, and has a lot of fun for how dramatic his past car can be when he is hungry and tired.

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The sun is getting earlier and early now. Only a few weeks ago, walking later until the day and arriving at the camp at 8 was still in the light of day. Now, the sun is low by 6 and Dark gets at 9. The midnight of the hiker is actually the night again.

The limiting factors for miles in one day are time and energy. Energy comes from good dream and a good fuel. With poor fuel, or not enough, the body loses energy. On a 15-20 mile walk day, the body burns approximately 3000 calories. Am I eating enough to support that caloric need? Usually, no, that’s why my body longs for the middle of the day, and why I have been sleeping more frequently in recent times.

The refueling game can be difficult. When he is arriving at the grocery store after a hiking day and before walking for a few more miles to a camp, he is divided between the physical desire to eat everything he sees and the mental exercise of cost: calories: weight relationships. One would think that hikers would have it resolved for now, but it seems that every time I get to a store, I am doing the calculations for the first time. How much food will you fit in my backpack? Is it worth the cost and weight, will I want to eat another cool with peanut butter flavor when you already have a peanut butter jar? All these questions can mean that some bad options are asked in the grocery store, and you have more questions later by the path such as: can I survive a few miles in a single pop cake until I am in the city tomorrow morning, or should I move forward tonight?

I have sometimes had enough food or packed enough to the point where I was left without complete. In this particular leg of my walk, I bought «only enough», which meant that I had established breakfasts and dinners, in addition to snacks for the day, but there are no real lunches, and if you had to count the calories, it was not about 3000 per day. This resulted in my food bag on day 2, counting my bars and estimating the calories in the half jug of peanut butter, I had been and thinking if I should continue with my plan to walk 18 miles tomorrow and Nero to the city the next day, a few miles away in a blue slip to reach the city before planned.

Some people can be Puristas by Blaze White, but when it comes to reaching the city faster, so I do not suffer more time than necessary due to bad purchases of groceries, I am an advantage of sap of shit miles, blue and yellow belly. Sorry fails, I’m sorry mom, I’m sorry atc. I don’t want to climb Mount Stratton just for kicks when I’m hungry. And thanks, Maddie, the weekend backpack that shared your snacks with me, a terrible hiker who was worried about my poor calorie dinner.

Tomorrow I will do my best to get up early and feed my body the best I can with my remaining oatmeal and pop cakes, then I will reserve it to the city, maybe with some food in my bag, but in the end everything that matters is that I put a hamburger in my belly before the sun.

PD: I walked on Mount Stratton, and had a beautiful view from the Tower of Fire on the top. Then I opened in the city and obtained that hamburger. I suspect that the last weeks of Delicatessen put me in the habit of underlineing my lunches when the newly made sandwiches were in the menu, and therefore, I conveniently forgot that I have to buy enough food to eat at least three meals a day in my last series of groceries. I will do it better next time, since the delicatessen are gone and the path is becoming more difficult in the field again when we enter the last three states of our trip.

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