It sounds from here like one option would be to sleep at mile 80ish, start walking toward the last train station the next day, and somewhere around mile eight decide whether you could get to the 100-mile station in time. If not, turn around and walk back to where you'd slept the night before, and then take a couple of days to walk back to the sixty-mile train station.
Would it feel like a failure if you got to the second train station, walked twenty miles, slept, and then turned around if you had doubts about walking to the final train station in one day to catch the last train? If that would still feel like "good hike" rather than "ugh, I had to retrace my path and scramble uphill some," something like this might work:
Taking a few days to walk between the drop-off and the first train station. Then it's a couple of days from there to the second train station and deciding whether to get on the train then or keep going. If you keep going, give yourself a day or two to walk to the last place to sleep, and then deciding when you woke up. And the decision would then be "turn back to the train station at mile 60, or head onward and decide around mile 88 whether to turn back or keep going through the city.
With regard to cosplay, I can think of two possible arguments against it, which are "things to consider" rather than "don't do it."
1) Would your ouit be adequately waterproof without causing you to overheat? (I don't know whether there are period-appropriate umbrellas that are waterproof enough for a long walk/hike in the rain.)
2) If you'd be visiting any museums on the way, you might have to explain "sorry, I don't work here" to other museum visitors. And cosplay might encourage possibly-intrusive conversation from people at restaurants, hotels, etc.
It sounds from here like one option would be to sleep at mile 80ish, start walking toward the last train station the next day, and somewhere around mile eight decide whether you could get to that station in time, and if not turn around to where you'd slept the night before, and then take a couple of days to walk back to the sixty-mile station.
Would it feel like a failure if you got to the second train station, walked twenty miles, slept, and then turned around if you had doubts about walking to the final train station in one day to catch the last train? If that would still feel like "good hike" rather than "ugh, I had to retrace my path," something like this might work:
Taking a few days to walk between the drop-off and the first train station. Then it's a couple of days from there to the second train station and deciding whether to get on the train then or keep going. If you keep going, give yourself a day or two to walk to the last place to sleep, and then deciding when you woke up. And the decision would then be "turn back to the train station at mile 60, or head onward and decide around mile 88 whether to turn back or keep going through the city.
If that would n't be failure but "I took a hike along the old towpath and then then took a train home" in the same way as just stopping at the second train station,
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Would it feel like a failure if you got to the second train station, walked twenty miles, slept, and then turned around if you had doubts about walking to the final train station in one day to catch the last train? If that would still feel like "good hike" rather than "ugh, I had to retrace my path and scramble uphill some," something like this might work:
Taking a few days to walk between the drop-off and the first train station. Then it's a couple of days from there to the second train station and deciding whether to get on the train then or keep going. If you keep going, give yourself a day or two to walk to the last place to sleep, and then deciding when you woke up. And the decision would then be "turn back to the train station at mile 60, or head onward and decide around mile 88 whether to turn back or keep going through the city.
With regard to cosplay, I can think of two possible arguments against it, which are "things to consider" rather than "don't do it."
1) Would your ouit be adequately waterproof without causing you to overheat? (I don't know whether there are period-appropriate umbrellas that are waterproof enough for a long walk/hike in the rain.)
2) If you'd be visiting any museums on the way, you might have to explain "sorry, I don't work here" to other museum visitors. And cosplay might encourage possibly-intrusive conversation from people at restaurants, hotels, etc.
It sounds from here like one option would be to sleep at mile 80ish, start walking toward the last train station the next day, and somewhere around mile eight decide whether you could get to that station in time, and if not turn around to where you'd slept the night before, and then take a couple of days to walk back to the sixty-mile station.
Would it feel like a failure if you got to the second train station, walked twenty miles, slept, and then turned around if you had doubts about walking to the final train station in one day to catch the last train? If that would still feel like "good hike" rather than "ugh, I had to retrace my path," something like this might work:
Taking a few days to walk between the drop-off and the first train station. Then it's a couple of days from there to the second train station and deciding whether to get on the train then or keep going. If you keep going, give yourself a day or two to walk to the last place to sleep, and then deciding when you woke up. And the decision would then be "turn back to the train station at mile 60, or head onward and decide around mile 88 whether to turn back or keep going through the city.
If that would n't be failure but "I took a hike along the old towpath and then then took a train home" in the same way as just stopping at the second train station,