Today's miles 23.1. AT miles 2137
A long but much easier day today, I was feeling slightly better this morning and did manage to eat some breakfast. The trail was downhill from Logan Brook shelter, where we left just before 7:30, to East Branch of Pleasant River. We thought we would have to ford the river but someone had laid a tree branch across the big gap between stepping stones so we could get across without the need to ford. We stopped for a quick break here. We then had a small Mountain to get over, Little Boardman Mountain and then the trail was a very gradual flat downhill for the rest of the day. The trail was easy going with not too many rocks and tree root obstacles so we could get a good 3mph pace going for the majority of it.
We stopped for another break at Jo-Mary Road, a forest dirt road then continued on trying to knock off some miles and catch up on yesterdays deficit. We passed a lovely beach area at lower Jo-Mary lake. The trail gradually got rockier towards the end slowing us down a bit, plus I was also starting to flag, my energy levels were dropping, I still had no appetite but managed to eat a couple of snack bars today. We arrived at our intended destination, Potaywadjo Spring Lean-to, just before 5:30. Although I didn't eat enough during the day, just a couple of snack bars again, I did for the first time in three days manage to eat a normal size dinner of noodles, tuna and cashew nuts. I'd probably only been surviving on less than 500 calories a day for the last couple of days, about 1000 calories today, not good when I'm burning 4000+ a day. Nigel has been demolishing all my uneaten snacks very easily though, nothing wrong with his appetite.
Feeling a bit better this evening I finally managed to get the last three days blogs written too.
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