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Nijmegen day

40 km

One day of four at the Nijmegen marches.

Cover 40 km. Carry 10 kg. Only the distance is checked.

It stands on
Long fall
Walkers in the 1970 Nijmegen Four Days March behind a Swiss flag, some soldiers with rifles.
Photo: Eric Koch, Anefo, Nationaal Archief. CC0.

What it takes

Before you go.

Recommended first
Long fall
Weekly distance
About 40 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
Long run
22 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Long fall counts
Taper
An easier week before the event week

The story

At the Nijmegen Four Days Marches, soldiers walk 40 km a day for four days. Most military walkers must carry at least 10 kg. This is one of those days. Source: Nijmegen Four Days Marches.

The ladder

  1. 5 km
  2. Forager's day
  3. First flight
  4. Mawson's last miles
  5. 10 km
  6. Gold march
  7. Hunter's day
  8. Nut grove
  9. Twelve-miler
  10. Wallace's Line
  11. Wildebeest's day
  12. Half Marathon
  13. Toutle avalanche
  14. Roland's pass
  15. Olympus Mons
  16. Dawes's ride
  17. Laki fissure
  18. Royal Road
  19. Legion's march
  20. Persistence hunt
  21. Norwegian thirty
  22. Chalk Gate
  23. Racing the horses
  24. Rim to rim
  25. Barclay's walk
  26. Long fall
  27. Nijmegen day