“The inhabitants of Wijchen and Beuningen are eager to finally cheer you on again today”, says Sackers, who set the legion in motion with a firm “Let’s go for it”. The special weather advice team, which includes doctors and a meteorologist, considers that they run responsibly if the runners are provided with good advice about, for example, extra drinking. At the start it will be 24 degrees, later the temperatures will rise, but in the afternoon there will be a cooling breeze with wind force 5.
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Mars leader Henny Sackers fired the starting gun at exactly 4.00 am on Wednesday morning.
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About ten percent of the more than 42,000 participants decided to leave the Four Days Marches for what it is this year: a total of 38,500 starting tickets have been collected.
Tips via the app
The walkers set out with all kinds of heat tips that they received via the Four Days Marches app. For example, the advice is to keep moving a bit at rest areas and especially to eat and drink enough. Because the temperature can rise to 30 degrees this afternoon, extra places have been set up where hikers can tap water.
Sackers: “The weather conditions are such that the first day of hiking will be a challenge, but no further measures are necessary.” Maria Hopman, professor of Physiology at Radboudumc, emphasized that good food and drink remain important: “Even after the finish on the Wedren”.
Possible rain in the evening
The sun will shine first on Wednesday, but clouds will increase from the southwest. It will be 25 to 32 degrees, Weeronline reports. In the evening it may rain in the south and east. Thursday will be cloudy and in the north and northeast it will rain in many places. With 20 to 24 degrees it is less warm.