We were in a celebratory mood last nite. We had just completed a gorgeous stage, easy (since when is 10 miles up and over a pass - easy?), rewarding, wonderful in all regards. We got to this beautiful town of Grasmere that had lots of nice restaurants. And as I noted we had our best meal of the trip.
We'll I paid for it later.
It seems I have a bit of a knack for making food choices that give me food poisoning. Last big trip to India I got food poisoning, in business class no less, from this cute little pork pate.
And last night I couldn't resist the prosciutto with melon and feta and some nice oil drizzled on it as an appetizer. Now here's the kicker, April said hey that prosciutto looks kind of green and it has a funny sheen to it. Well I ignored her and dove right in. Delicious. Real farmyard type of taste. I didn't realize April was just eating the melon and cheese served with it.
So right at the end of dinner my stomach was feeling kind of funny. Jayne O'C called and my stomach was bubbling and she was wondering if I'm taking lactaid pills when eating rich buttery desserts. No.
Anyway suffice to say it was a rough night. The funny thing is our room was really small with the bathroom attached, so our whole room ended up stinking like a barnyard. April claims to have been kept awake all night by the smell. Ha-ha.
Ok to the hike. We had bfast, I ate really light, and we had about a 10 mile day. Up a valley, over a pass, down another valley, up another pass and down a valley into the village. I was a hurting unit. In a nice turn of events from yesterday's race, April offered to take my pack a few times.
Note the local names, we passed Stonethwaite Beck (a stream), passed Greenup Gill (another tributary), we climbed up Lining Crag (rocky promontory), and we skirted around Greenup Edge (high meadow).
Mountains were beautiful. Again waterfalls and streams all around. We think we caught our first glimpse of the ocean.
Physically we now seem to be past our aches and pains. Even April's foot seems better. The walking see......"peter just ran to the bathroom - april here to finish the blog!" looks like he was going to say "seems like it cured her plantar faciatis - which it did! Now with only 2 days left - I feel great! Peter wants everyone to know he is in a real dilemma - if he eats he'll spend his time running behind rocks and bushes along the trail tomorrow and if he doesn't eat he won't have the energy to hike at all. I say "Please sign in everyone with you're vote on what he should do" haha.....what fun this blog is!
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sad, no comments again! dad, guess you can add england to the (extensive) list of countries you get the shits in. come to think of it...is japan the only country not on that list? haha, feel better! hopefully it was only a 24 hour poisoning and you'll be able to eat again soon!
ReplyDeletedan and jayne here. our votes...dan says don't eat. you probably have some extra energy packed around the midriff area. jayne's vote is watch what your eating more closely. you could listen to someone else''s observation once in a while. i know exactly what you talked about with the green sheen on the ham. if you have enough toilet paper go with a little food. but let the bad ham work through your system. i once ate bad salami on the trail and got tomaine poisoning for a week. be careful. are you better yet? i have to say that i am quite nervous about hiking with the three of you. dan has endless energy and strength and can kick anybody's ass up the trail in this group. april is now pumped and healthy! so she is pretty darn fast too. pete maybe you will still have a bad stomach and i will be able to hike with you. but if your on full strength what the heck am i going to do. i will say that today i broke the time up mt. cardigan by a half hour. i was proud of myself. but now after all this blog reading i hope this is a trip i can do.
ReplyDeletesee you soon. kj