"What if you walked 40 km a day for 4 days straight through Nijmegen?"
Your feet are screaming, your calves are protesting, but on day four you walk with thousands of people down the Via Gladiola — and that's a moment your body and mind remember equally. You go home with a medal, blisters that deserve their own stories, and proof that your body is capable of far more than you thought.
Joris (31), Arnhem — geography teacher, runs five kilometres every morning before he's properly awake
On day three, somewhere on a dyke near Groesbeek, I genuinely thought: why did I sign up for this.
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