No competition here

We have been trailing, from alburgue to alburgue, a ten man Korean athletic team that keep leaving a small Korean flag at the station when they leave.  All the team members are eating high protein bars and energy drinks. The leave before dawn with headlamps on.  Jerry is convinced that if we left before them and forced march through the next two nights we could get ahead of them and plant our American flag.  Needless to say, I hid all the caffeine from Jerry.