Similar situation as previous day. Beautiful morning by Sorksjøen. Heavy discussion about what to do... My leg felt very stiff, both bones in the feet and the shin muscles. I started late as I tried to give it some time to rest more. I could run, but slowly and again through pain. No problem here, but you must always think ahead. I visited friends at Remind Canoe Camp. Here my Norwegian love started long years ago... Started running towards lake Femund and continue on the shore towards Elgå. VERY runnable terrain most of the time. I had in my head, that I want to run the whole Femundsmarka the next day, all the way from Elgå to Vauldalen.

Way over 70 km in quite rough terrain in over half of the distance. But my beloved part of Norway, good forecast and I felt so good and strong. Just the leg. I really didn't know if to trust it or not. It was hurting a lot, but it wasn't getting worse today. So at the end of the day I even tried to run on it fast for a few km. around 5min/km, which is not fast normally, but here it was 2x faster than a pace I would call fast. And... The leg was quite Ok = didn't hurt more when running. I felt super light running even uphill, so I have decided that I would do Femundsmarka in one go the next day.

I really needed to get much faster, to have a chance to stick to to the already very tight schedule. My plan was to run/hike/progress from today every day at least 50 km to get out of the time pressure.