The dropout rate is about double the years before the last country run, while the organization has extended the finish time to 18:30. This was decided because Friday morning the first hours raining and thundering and many people were sheltering.
On Friday succumbed some participants still in the finish area. That was because there were long queues for the counters where medals were awarded, while the temperature rose again significantly.
Mars Leader John William Stein is a “very happy” man. The high number of dropouts in this Four-edition blames it in part to the weather and partly to the fact that 5,000 runners more than normal could do it, because of the anniversary of the walking tour.
“The hundredth is fixed more not lured trained participants, while here and there very busy and had along the way. But given the mass of people had not have gone better. “
King
King Willem-Alexander, on Friday because of the anniversary of the Four Days came to visit, was full of praise. “I have great admiration for all participants. And for all the volunteers who again ready for them every year. It is an incredible athletic achievement,” he said.
The king popped up unannounced on between the hikers in Brabant Cuijk and walked with them across the pontoon bridge over the river Maas.
He also visited a nursing station. During the march in Nijmegen took the royal visit to congestion in the hiking pack, because everyone wanted to shake hands or wanted to make a selfie. The king pinned some special tokens themselves the medal.
Dropouts
This year there were a remarkable number of dropouts. Even some experienced runners had to give the go. Also among the hundred most seniors, from 82 to 93 years, many dropouts, mainly because they drank too little according to researchers. But the hundred youngest participants, of whom the most 12 years, their first Four have all completed after a few.
Experienced hikers who walked the hundredth edition, saying it ” a very heavy ‘was. There were tropical hot days, it was sometimes cramped with impending storm and Friday began with an hour-long hoos- and thunderstorm.
On Tuesday and Wednesday were a lot of runners out. The Red Cross helped the road about five hundred runners with heat complaints. Several dozen walkers ended up in the hospital
Video:. Despite rain good atmosphere at Four
Blisters
The Red Cross has pricked 12,645 blisters. They used 11,000 lancing, 20 liters of iodine and 42,000 screens. Feet are taped with a total of 20 kilometers and 550 meters adhesive tape patch. In total, according to a spokesperson seven hundred employees in Nijmegen to work
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