Wapack Traverse - getting back with old friends

I hiked the area last time 2 years ago. I was getting ready for Presidential traverse at the time and even though it never happened this hiked helped me understand how my body reacts to the long day of hiking (around 11 hrs).

So this year i knew what to expect repeating the hike for the second time. We met at the mt Watatic parking lot to spot cars and after waiting for everybody to show up we headed to the middle spot to leave one car with lunch food for our half day break.
We got to the beginning of the hike around 8'oclock. We started right away, and all the memories from the last hike came back with the speed of light.
I just love that first section of Wapack here the moss country covers most of the woods. It has that special feeling to it, moving your mind away from the everyday problems. I tend to inhale all the beauty and try to remember as much as i can.
We got off with pretty fast pace and after a little bit we already could tell the group would have to divide somewhere because some members just could not give up. We stayed pretty close to each other on that first part of the hike, even though i was itching to move faster.
The group was of 9 people where more than half of the members were foreigners, with German women,

Polish man, German-Sweden-Italian girl, Japanese girl and a boy somewhere from west Asia (forgot the exact country) and of course me from Poland.
We got to the North Pack Monadnock later than expected but everybody was in a really good mood and the day so far was wonderful with sun and no bugs around. We had short break at the top of the mountain, where some members of the group got to climb little fire tower to get some better views. From there was not that far to main parking lot for north Pack Monadnock where we saw a lot of people with dogs getting ready to start their hiking day.
We regrouped quickly and headed for the hidden water spot, where one of the members left some bottles of water day earlier. We filled our bottles with fresh water and headed to finish first half of the hike.
I was really anticipating it because i was getting hungry and i could not wait to be able to grab my salad from the trunk of the car.
i was getting little sleepy and i was glad to be able to rest for a little bit. From there we were all talking how we would like to speed up a little because we were going much slower than everybody expected.
When the two remaining hikers joined us, our German friend decided she was gonna stop the hike here, because she could not keep up and she did not want to slow the whole group down.
We said our goodbyes and after around half an hour we started our second part of the hike.
And that's when the problems started. People could finally go fast but i slowly started feeling not good. My stomach started bothering me and it was difficult for me to go fast.

Now it was me who could not keep up. I decided that i was not gonna say anything and just see how long can i go for. Some members of the group went really fast,i lost sight of them pretty quickly. There was one man that started slowing down and even i could pass him.
I was struggling. The hills were killing me, i started sweating e lot and got really hot and nauseous. I was trying to stay with the girls and i told them i wasnt feeling well. One of the leaders of the group decided to stay close to the slowest hiker and  we separated.
Now there were 4 subgroups. First 3 super fast guys, then two other guys, then me and the girls and then two remaining guys. I was making a lot of little stops and drunk a lot of water. At some point we got together   with two other guys and from now on we stayed close. Finally one of the girls gave me some kind of pill that she found in her pack that was suppose to help me with nausea. After around 20 min i could feel it working. I had more energy and i could go much faster.I was so happy. We got close to the mount Watatic around 3pm and tried to stay strong. Weather was still nice and everybody was in a good mood.

We got to the summit and rested a little bit. We did not want to stay there too long because we knew that the first group was waiting for us at the end. On our way down we met the slowest member of the hike, he decided not to summit Watatic and was on his way to the trail head. We got to the trial head a little bit after. I was glad it was over, i started feeling blister forming in both
of my feet and my knee started to bother me at the end. I was really tired and ready for bed!!!We waited a little bit for our leader, he decided to summit Watatic after leaving the other guy. Around 15 min later we were all at

the end of the hike.

Everybody was ready to get back to their cars so we did not spend much time on the parking lot.

It was really nice hike, i just wish i felt better through it, i was a little disappointed that i could not keep up with the fastest group but i had fun time.
I hope to repeat this hike again next year.