Crowds at first aid posts in Four Days – NU.nl

This reports the Red Cross across NU.nl. “In total there are now hundreds of rescuers to work.”

At the beginning of the day there were 75 people employed then was scaled by 25 additional workers.

“First aid is currently for pricking blisters,” said the organization. It mainly concerns people who suffer from fainting

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Beverages

” participants should continue to eat and drink well. ” The advice is if possible to walk to the next station and to wait otherwise.

The course has four first-aid locations on the second day of the marches. On the first day have failed 1,206 runners, a higher percentage than in the previous three years, according to the organization of the Four Days

Video:. Busyness at first-aid stations during the second day Four Days

Storm

the organization of the Four Days late Wednesday from noon mobile signs with a warning of storm on the second walking trail riding. According Four Meteorologist Jules Geirnaerdt there is a chance that these storms in the afternoon above Nijmegen. Around that time many runners make their final kilometers through the city of Nijmegen.

It is Pink Wednesday in Nijmegen. On that day, protrudes from the center to win the walkers. It can be on Wednesday more than 35 degrees in the city. Defence shares on the edge of downtown bottled water to the runners.

First walker

A little after 9:00 am Briton Simon Brownlee was the first across the finish line, the is the second day in a row for Brownlee that he is the first.

“all along the road were water sprinklers and water points already in operation. Possibly also because the military before us started this morning,” said Brownlee against Gelderlander

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By: NU.nl/ANP