Itisallgreek2me

Saturday, 2 July 2022… Left my apartment this morning to walk to Myloi, a little bit of retracing my steps from 3 years’ ago. Met up again with Grigori, the Park Warden who reminded me of how much he loves Olympus, before taking the easy, well constructed path to the waterfall and return.

Briefly considered walking part of the E4 trail, however, good sense prevailed… not wise in this heat. I had hoped to walk the upper part of the E4 from Prionia to Agio Spilaio and the Agios Dionysios Monastery but the 2 Euro each way shuttle bus to Prionia isn’t running and I couldn’t justify E50 for a taxi to get me there and back.

Decided to take a path down to the Enipeas River Canyon and return to Litochoro that way… thinking speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward. When I reached the bottom, the bridge I was expecting to see did not exist, only rocks with blue and red painted dots. Removed my shoes and socks to cross to the other side, returning to Lakkos and Spitaki for a large Amstel, club sandwich and wedges.

Today I followed live online the progress of the runners in the Olympus Mythical Trail race. Incredibly, the first runner home, a Greek, ran the 101km in 17h22m18s. The first female runner home, in overall 11th position, ran the race in 21h18m30s. Ali (Alistair Watson) the English guy I talked to yesterday, put in an amazing performance, coming home 10th in 21h18m.

I don’t know how they do it… I walked around 6km today and was exhausted. I’ve never experienced the kind of heat that we are having here now. I wonder… what will it be like in August.

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