Best and worst thing about your country

[SvennoJ]

S.Peelman said:

SvennoJ said:

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One of the coolest things about Holland is you can walk along the beach uninterrupted along most of the coast. All public space, would love to go for a run along the beach from IJmuiden to Den Helder or The Hague. (Not all the way that's over 50km!) You can have an entire beach marathon. All meticulously maintained and always somewhere close for refreshments. But you'll be dodging people all the way.

Well, there is the Strand6Daagse. Starts monday.

Not for me, I like walking, finished the Four Day Marches in Nijmegen for the 13th time yesterday, but walking such lengths on the soft sand of the beach and dunes is torture.

My dad used to go on yearly beach walks with his work buddies. You can run in the hard sand along the surf, but that's where people are of course. Yeah trying to run on the soft sand is worse than running through snow.

I did many four day marches in my youth but nowadays I go for a 20 to 25km run every other day to be by myself as a form of meditation. There are organized runs here as well, as well as cycling tours but I prefer the quiet and not seeing anyone for hours. Same when I was still heavily into cycling, always looking for deserted roads.