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The second morning had less flow than the previous day. It was harder to focus on keeping the pace up. The terrain also involved hopping from field to field with lots of gates and stiles to slow things down.

Between Shap and Kirkby Stephen is where I saw the most other walkers, generally out for the day (not carrying overnight equipment). I can't really make sense of it, it's a pretty unremarkable section so I assume they're doing it as part of the entire Coast to Coast, but I didn't see anywhere near the same number of people on any other sections.

I had multiple sources for the route and sometimes they disagreed, which is unnerving for an FKT attempt. I followed signposts and markers first, otherwise I followed the route from fastestknowntime.com (based on Damian Hall's run) on my watch, and where I couldn't make out where that was leading me I used the route from the Far Out app. Sometimes all three source disagreed.

Having navigation on my watch while running has been a recent game changer for me. Now I can't see myself hiking without my GPS watch, reducing the need to get my phone out is a big win.

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Coast to Coast Morning 2 - Gates and elderly American couples

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Get the sunglasses out of storage

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