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Upcoming break from rucking.

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Today (I wrote this text on the 16th of November, 2025), I will write about the upcoming break from rucking. What is the reason for it?

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Between the 18th and the 24th of November, 2025, together with my beloved Kamilka, we will have days off from work. Thus, we decided to go to Kraków and Zakopane. I need to rest not only from rucking, but also from my office job (I don’t have to add that the same thing is true for Kamilka). Again, as it happened during our previous travels to, among others, the Latvian town of Liepaja in June 2025, Zakopane in March 2025, or the Estonian city of Parnu in June 2024, I am preparing to let go of all my “crazy” things I do.

These are:

a) doing intermittent fasting (I eat not earlier than 7 p.m.) and avoiding eating sweets, processed food, and drinking alcohol;
b) wearing summer clothes in frigid temperatures;
c) rucking.

Regarding rucking, I did it five times over the last five days. Moreover, during the previous three days, I was walking with the highest possible (for me) weight of my rucksack: 37.5 kg (83 lbs). Knowing that I will have an upcoming break, I wanted to do it as often as possible during the last few days. Do I enjoy visiting Krakow, the former capital of Poland, and the capital of the Polish mountains, Zakopane?

Of course, I do. We plan to walk a lot.

Also, I plan to take pictures of whatever will attract my eyes. Undoubtedly, the days of our trip to Zakopane, for me, will be cheat days. I will be feasting from dusk till dawn. I think it is wise to break the routines sometimes and to give up earthly pleasures; most people do almost 24/7. The truth is that I am simply happy that we are going to Zakopane. Still, the truth is that I do not need traveling to be happy, because I am content.