100k Step Challenge

100k steps in one day - doable?

TL;DR at the end.

Me and few of my friends had a plan, to do something crazy - 100 000 steps in one day.

Date was set - 9th of June 2018. Start was whenever Saturday started and end when Saturday finished.

Got to Tartu from Tallinn around 1:30 a.m in the morning, having left behind 2 days of Geekout event and basically coming straight from Geekout afterparty. 2 days of standing already had a nice toll from my feet, but nothing to worry, 100k steps is like a walk in the park.

Having myself equipped with Sony Xperia Z1 with very low battery capacity and three 10000mah battery banks, 3 liters of water, change of clothes, laptop (I had it with me when I came from Tallinn) and then off I went. Turned on my sports-tracker and started the journey. Having a plan that I can make half hours of nap during the way since I was up since Friday.

Start was quite amazing, people playing table tennis early in the morning (3 a.m). and city was full of people who just went or came from different bars. Continued my trip next to Anne kanal. And saw the sunrise near the Sõrpuse birdge where my path went towards Ihaste. At that place my compadres texted me that to hold up, the are starting their path as well. Obviously they were at the end of this view and I didn't feel like to wait around half hours.

One of landmarks where we all made pictures was the graffiti on the bridge of Ihaste. Other guys went several times pass that bridge and took several pictures and picture edits of it.

Passing through Ihaste I saw that they are having Horse Sports Centre (Ratsasprodikeskus). I had no clue that this kind of thing exists there. Pleasantly surprised.

Around 4:30 a.m I got out of Tartu and took direction to Luunja. After the border of Tartu, there are lot's of new developments, some of either have their own lakes where fishing and swimming is prohibited people who are not living there. Cannot even imagine the price tag of those developments. Few more steps and there was a forest and one deer spooked me. I just walked forward and tried to avoid major roads. Just narrow and small places.

During the road to Luunja there are lots of places where you can go swimming and camping near Emajõgi. One of them which I passed had few fisherman who enjoyed the morning and tried to catch some.

Finally around 6:30 I got to Luunja. The place was completely something else that I had expected. I always was hoping for cucumbers, as Luunja Kurk. I, all against my exceptions found really nice river side, harbor, swimming place, new park, one old park. Also a pink basically full size horse sculpture. It worth of a walk. Unfortunately I had to recover this walk from the GPS coordinates which I had on the pictures. Luckily I made a lot of them in there.

There my feet took me across Emajõgi and I got to Kaagvere. There is now nice 6 hole disc golf track and basically I was on opposite side of Emajõgi. On the other side there was Luunja. Trough Kaagvere I got to Roiu. Starwed, haven't had a bite since 21:00 p.m on Friday, just 2 pieces of chocolate. Sat down on the grass and waited when the shop opened. Instantly at 10 a.m shop was full of locals and everybody knew everybody. Felt myself as total outsider. Got some snacks and Vytautas and trip took me to Põlva-Tartu highway. Some bike competition was going on, but didn't see any.  Competition signs where already before Roiu. This was the first time when people asked direction from me - how to get to Lennumuuseum to see Air show event.

From Põlva-Tartu highway got few more snacks and continued my trip to Kambja. Haven't never really been there, so I checked it out. First when I saw that it is uphill, then I figured, how long way it can be. It was a very long way. At least at the border of Kambja I saw first familiar faces. Most likely they were surprised to see me there. Kambja, on first sightings had at least 2 churches, a beach where to swim, bit bigger shopping malls and a lot of people visited the cemetery. 

Next stop for me was Nõo. This was long road. Before startting this road I saw some more familiar faces. I had to decline a lift. The road to Nõo was quiet. Only thing what bothered me was empty broken bike inner-tubes, water bottles and gel snack packages on the side of the roads. I had so much more respect to bikers before, this basically went to the same level as people who smoke in the car and throw cigarette packages to the site for the road.

Before I got to Nõo there was Unipiha manor and the park of it. Near by was also Luke manor, but 3 kilometers of gravel road was bit scary as I already felt how my feet don't like asphalt anymore. I started to feel every small rock trough my shoes.  Unipiha minor park was actually neat and I had small break next to the park. Going forward there I saw strawberry plantation, first I though that it is some place where you can hold events, but those were just camping houses for foreign workers in that strawberry plantation. 

Once I reached Nõo and passed it, I got very nasty highway so looked the first exit out. Finally found one - Külitse. This took me trough Külitse and to familiar place called Haage - place on the way to home. I knew that from Haage there is very nice road for travelling either by foot or bike and it had a gas stop where I could do final recharge. Coke and sugar it was. Even on that road some of my colleagues wanted to give me a lift. 

From here the road was most painful, feet didn't work, lots of kilometers to go. Life was not very nice anymore. When I got to Biometicum then it took tremendous amount of time to reach to the Riia street. Where I stopped the tracker and took the bus to city center. Finally small shower to give some rest to my muscles.

After that I made one final stretch to get to Shisha Studio for one hookah. I met my friends on the way and they though that I was either really drunk and beaten up or something worse....It was not so bad, I just walked very slowly, limped, was swollen from the face due sunburn, standard regular Saturday.

TL;DR version:

Table

Duration	Distance	Steps	Kcal	Step length	Link
3:11:46	17,05	19096	1495	0,892857143	Part # 1
1:00:59	3,90	4367	314	0,893061598	Part # 2
5:03:22	15,39	17235	1306	0,892950392	Part # 3
1:42:58	7,98	9161	677	0,871083943	Part # 4
1:54:12	7,84	9122	681	0,859460645	Part # 5
1:22:04	6,05	7110	497	0,850914205	Part # 6
1:09:09	4,28	5452	360	0,785033015	Part # 7
0:42:10	3,06	3471	258	0,88159032	Part # 8
1:06:36	4,28	5725	358	0,747598253	Part # 9
0:49:24	2,85	3617	253	0,787945811	Part # 10
0:40:05	2,32	3199	197	0,725226633	Part # 11
0:23:50	0,88	2458	91	0,358014646	Part # 12
0:05:36	0,16	573	23	0,279232112	Part # 13
0:12:58	0,62	1148	56	0,540069686	Part # 14
19:25:09 h	76,66  km	91734 steps	6566  kcal	0,835677066	Full map

Map

At least my friends did it, superb guys (y)

So what did I miss, like 4 kilometers? :)
Cheers and till next time.