12 Mile Run on North Shore

James and I ran North Shore trail yesterday.  I had actually never done this trail, not even on the bike.  It turned out great.  Initially the weather was looking a bit tougher, like freezing rain or sleet, but it was beautiful!  Sunny, about 34 degrees (felt warmer due to the nice sun), great day.  We got a bit messed up trying to find the trailhead from where we parked, detouring maybe a mile along the water before doing this crazy climb up through the blackberry bushes to get back to the road, then down the road to finally find the trailhead.

We'd originally planned to do 10 miles, but got to the parking lot at the other end (roughly 5 mile point), and were both feeling good, so decided to go a bit longer to see what was beyond.  Finally, at 55 minutes in (and we think right about 6 miles), we turned around, mostly out of time constraint.  While this wound up being 5 miles longer than any run I'd done this year, it felt great, but was likely good we turned when we did.

The trail was in great shape, and was a good one.  It's a lot of little up and down, various quick stream crossings, slightly rocky in some spots.  But, we ran a good pace, in the low 9 minute miles, which is good for both of us at that distance.  We normally run slightly hillier stuff, so it maybe was not too fast, but still felt great.  

It seemed to warm up nicely too, although I think was still in the mid-30's when we got back.  James actually ran the whole day in just a t-shirt, compared to me in a thin Pearli long sleeve base, and an Icebreaker GT180 top (I shed my jacket pretty quickly).  I wasn't sure but used my Mountain Hardware Momentum gloves, and that wound up being perfect.  I really love these gloves, they can handle quite a temperature range, and they breathe SO well!  Was also wearing Pearli knickers, and Inov-8 X-Talon 212 shoes (as usual these days).  

Finally, at about 8 or 9 mile mark, had a gel (Hammer banana), and that was a very smart choice.  I could tell just a short while later as it kicked in.  I finished quite strong, and James was bummin' he hadn't brought a gel (and that was the only one I had).  All in all, a really great day of running.  Total time was 1hr 52 mins, over 12 miles.  With such a big jump in mileage, I'm very excited that I'll be able to ramp up my mileage in time for the Peterson Ridge Rumble 20 miler in early April.

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Posted February 19, 2011
 

4/5 Days of Trail Running

Yesterday completed three days in a row of trail running for me, something I haven't done this year, and in quite some time.  Even better is I'm left feeling really psyched, energized, and motivated!  And, in fact, I'd run 4 out of the last 5 days:

  • Tuesday I did a nice 5.8 miler, with some good climbs, with exactly a 10 min pace.  
  • Thursday, it was my closest-to-home shorty 3.6 miler on the Blanton section of Ridgeline.  What was cool about this, was that I nearly did a PR, and did it 2 minutes faster than I'd done this year.  At the end, I felt great, not tired.  Of course, later that night I crashed, being ready to go to sleep at 9pm, and I should have, but didn't.
  • Friday was the longest run I've done this year, at 7.4 miles on the Goodman Creek trail, with about 1600' of vert.  James ran this with me, and it was a great social, and quality run.  It was a bit warmer than I expected, as I'd overdressed slightly, but it didn't matter, and was great to run with James, as I rarely get to run with others, plus James and I are quite compatible pace wise.  He can fly on the descents though, wow.  Again I felt great after this, and had felt we should have gone faster, or not walked a few sections.  But, dang, again, later that night, boy I was done: after reading to & putting my daughter to bed, I returned to the couch, where I pretty quickly fell asleep.  I fought it for a few minutes, then realized I just needed it.  Didn't wake up until 2:30am (at which point I went to bed for real).
  • Saturday I expected to not run, but I got a bit antsy near the end of the day, so went out for a short, but solid run at Fox Hollow, doing the descent to Martin St and climb back up, then the regular loop.  3.6 miles again, but good.  A bone in my metatarsals of my right foot had been hurting to just walk around on - I think I bruised it on a previous run, but it didn't hurt to run on; happy about that.
Here it is Sunday, and dang if I don't wish I could be out running.  Probably good to take a day, given this was a bit of a ramp up for me.  But, I'm really psyched, as I feel like I've got my running "back".  I need to go sign up for the Peterson Ridge Rumble 20 miler.  I've been mountain biking on those trails, and they should be really sweet for a run!  It doesn't even seem like that big of a buildup to go from 7 miles up to say nearly 20 prior to then (I've got 7 weeks to do it).  Still, that'll definitely be into the long range territory for me, as I've only done over 15 miles a few times.  It will certainly be a lot harder than the Haulin Aspen half marathon - same altitudes and vert I think, but 7 miles longer, and on I think harder terrain.  Still, really looking forward to that.

As alluded to in my last post, I'm making some dietary changes, to work on some hormone issues I've got going on.  Ramping up essential fatty acids, eating grass-fed lean red meat (I rarely eat red meat), plus more fish than I eat now, and trying to go wheat/gluten free.  I'm excited to see how/if this affects my energy levels.  

James and I talked a lot about diet, as both of us are into food, and really more into food in relation to fitness and health.  He's trying a vegan route.  We'll both be using Udo's Oil too.  I'm a big believer that diet and exercise can solve a lot more health problems than the pharma co's say, or even as most doctors will prescribe, so I'm hoping that's the case for me.

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Posted February 13, 2011
 

Tough Mudder NorCal 2010

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Last weekend I joined two of my DealBase co-workers (Sam (CEO) and Ross (BizDev)) for the Tough Mudder event at Bear Valley in Northern California.  We arrived on Friday, ran Saturday, and drove/flew back on Sunday.  It was quick, but was a fun weekend.  Ross found us a good rental house, and we had dinners at two of the restaurants at the lodge.  Bear Valley is a small, classic CA ski place, and turned out to be a decent venue for the event.  There were some things that could have been improved, but overall it worked out well, given the 3500+ participants on Saturday.  They did it all over again on Sunday, but with fewer participants.

As for the event itself, it was 7 miles of running, and about 15 obstacles.  Some of the obstacles required crawling through pipes or under wire or netting on the ground, and thrashed your elbows (especially for us 6'+ height folks who really had to drag our bodies through it using hands and elbows - some of the shorter folks were able to crawl more on their knees in some cases).  There were some fun walls to scale too.  I had been pretty worried about these beforehand, thinking they'd be extremely tough, but with the help of teammates or other participants, they wound up being fun.  

First page of event photos
(I'm the guy in the greenish top, with super short hair; Ross was sporting the "fauxhawk" for the event :)

The two hardest obstacles both involved water.  The first was running uphill in the halfpipe while they blasted you with quite cold water from the snowmakers.  Initially it didn't look that hard, but with that cold water hosing you down and the steepness of the hill, you got quite winded.  However, that was kind of trivial in comparison to what we wound up nicknaming the "ballshrinker"...

The Ballshrinker, or proper name, "Underwater Tunnels", was brutal.  They'd created this big reservoir of seriously freezing cold water (I'd guess 40 degree range?).  You ran down into the water, which happened to smell like crap, and then you had to swim under some barrels.  That dive and underwater time completely knocked the wind out of you.  All of us were practically hyperventilating upon surfacing.  I felt stunned when I popped up after the first set of barrels, and just sat there for a bit, gathering myself to then have to go under the next set.  We did make it, up the other side, only to then have to slide back down into the water and swim a bit.  Upon emerging from that second dip, my entire body felt like it had been compressed and shrunk.  I was extremely cold.  The next bit involved carrying large tree rounds, and by the end of that, my fingers were numb.

Second page of event photos

After that we did some more running, climbing of fences, crawling, etc., to finish up running through fire. Now I can say I've run through fire!  It took us about 1 hour 50 minutes, one mouthful of nasty Ballshrinker water (Sam), some Clif Shot Blocks (thanks Ross!), and a few dixie cups of water. I'd have to say, I really did have fun, and especially some of the earlier terrain we were running was truly outstanding - I would LOVE to go back there and just do a bunch of trail running.  It's fairly remote terrain, lots of rock, super scenic, and just THE kind of trail running environment I love.  I will pass on the Ballshrinker though.  And who knows, maybe the DealBase Mutilators will do another one of these.

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Posted October 15, 2010
 

A great week

The last week has been great, running wise.  I had been down visiting my family in southern CA, and got my sister out for her first trail run (she's been running a fairly long time, but never on trails).  We did a nice 45 min run at Crystal Cove State Park.  Bit of hills, pretty warm (80?), but fun.  We talked the entire run, and she's in great shape, so I was actually a bit out of breath towards the end.  I headed back to Eugene the next day, and crammed in some overdue work.  Then, ran each day until today.  These local runs totalled 22 miles, and I intend to do about 10+ tomorrow, so it'll be a solid week.  Thursday was a really nice 9 mile effort as well.

I've been doing pretty much all my shorter runs now in the Inov8 Roclite 295 shoes.  I'm very much liking them.  At this moment, I plan to run in them tomorrow, but it'll be a last minute decision I think.  The shoes are different, especially when you just put them on and sit there in them.  The insole reminds me of my Specialized Body Geometry cycling shoes, especially the earlier generations where there was a pronounced bump under your metatarsal area.  But, as soon as you hit the trail, you don't notice it, and in fact, the shoes just seem to fit me really really well.  They are more minimalist compared to the Brooks Cascadia, but so far, all I've been able to notice is that I feel more of the trail under my foot - I haven't noticed any particular muscle pain or other side effects that you sometimes hear about with more minimal shoes.  This is partly why I'm ready to go try them on a longer run (longest in them to date has been 6 miles).  Should be interesting.  I will also be interested to see how my legs fare having done the 9 miler on Thursday.  

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Posted August 28, 2010
 

Reflecting on the Haulin Aspen Race

I've been wondering why I just wasn't that happy with my race at Haulin Aspen, even though my time was pretty solid for me.  I've realized that it really comes down to the fact that I after about 4 miles, I just wasn't enjoying it, and wasn't running strong.  I had really been looking forward to this race, felt I'd done some good training, and just couldn't wait to get to run that distance again!  

The week leading up to the race I'd taken it super easy based on various things I'd read, some slight pain in my right knee, and partly time.  I only ran twice during the week, and they were both 4 mile or less runs, that I took easy.  In hindsight I think that was a mistake.  I should have run one more day, and I should have done at least one or two 6-8 milers.  That may or may not have helped, but I think that I'd simply have liked it better, I missed running this week!  

Probably regardless of the training, I think the key was that unpleasant, sustained road climb.  I haven't done any climbs that have lasted that long where I was also able to run all of it (I did walk a few minutes, but not that much).  Where I run it's either too steep to run the entire climb like that, or the climbs simply aren't that long.  Top that off with the fact that that hill was just plain boring and ugly to run up: a big wide dirt and sometimes gravel or sandy road.  I knew it was coming, but I think it still just wound up taking a real toll.  Pretty much from that point on I never felt strong again.  And that is really where I get bummed.

I'd have been happier if I felt strong running - even if I was just going the same speed I did.  The "strong" is about how I felt mentally and physically in terms of enjoying the run, having a good time, being happy I was out there running, regardless of how fast I was going.  I didn't get that, yet I did both times on my two longest training runs.  Both of those runs ended with me feeling like I could have gone longer, and in fact, on the second one, I had really really wanted to go longer, but felt the blisters and knew I should cut things short.  But, with this race, I got to the point where I was yearning for the finish.  So, all that winds up leaving me a bit bummed out about it as a run.

It has made me wonder - what could I have done differently to have changed that?  Could I?  Without being practiced on longer sustained climbs, I'm not sure.  Although I do suspect I really should have just walked a chunk more of that climb, left more energy in my tank, and that may have then allowed me to run stronger for the rest.  My time probably would have been just as good, who knows.  But, that's tough, when you're in a race, and the climb is quite runnable, you simply don't want to walk when "everyone" else is running (I only remember seeing one guy, maybe one woman, doing any walking).

I try to tell myself, hey, you've only been running about a total of a year, with your longest run being 6 miles until June, and here you are racing a half marathon, that's solid, you can't expect to have a strong run every single time.  In the end, it's disappointing, but I guess motivates me to continue, get stronger, be stronger more often, and to get faster.

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Posted August 11, 2010
 

Haulin Aspen 2010 Half Marathon

Earlier today I completed my first half marathon trail race, the Haulin Aspen, in Bend, OR.  It was a well done event, and overall quite a good time.  My official finish time was 2:06:16, but my watch had 2 hours 5 minutes and some seconds.  Close enough :)  I'm pleased with my time, as I was thinking it'd take 2:15.  But oddly, I'm left not as happy as I should have been.

Prep this morning went great, and I was nice and relaxed at the start.  The first mile of the race was a bit harsh, kinda fast for me, big time dry mouth action in the dry air there, and since I rarely race, just harder to start at such speed.  This was mediated by the fact that I saw I'd done about an 8.5 minute first mile though.  For me that's pretty fast, although that first mile was mostly flat.  I kept thinking I should slow down a bit, and I did feel like I did settle in to my own pace, so I was quite stoked when at the 4 mile mark, I saw I was just under 32 minutes, so now averaging 8 minute miles!  Very good for me, and I was pretty pumped.  Also, at that four mile mark, I was finally feeling pretty solid.  I was also happy to see that my watch mileage lined up perfectly with theirs, so that'd be nice for checking my progress.  That didn't last long though...

Soon after you hit the hill.  It's a wide dirt and gravel road, and climbs, with no shade, for I think about 1.5 miles (I think they state it's about a 1300' gain).  I knew this was coming, but it just wound up draining me quite a bit.  That's a lot longer sustained climb than anything I've ever done.  I did walk a few bits, and I probably should have walked more.  But man, in a race, you're just in the spirit of it, and you don't want to be walking!

The hill finally tops out, there's an aid station (the second one I just ran through, since I was carrying water and gels), and you do a quick bit more singletrack climbing.  Then it is mostly rolling.  A bit after this, we saw one the 19 mile mark, so we'd obviously rejoined the marathon course.  What sucked though, was that this would mean I had 7 miles to go, and thus was only 6 miles yet.  Yet my watch said I was something like 7.5 miles in!  Not a small discrepancy.  I had not really been able to pick up the pace any more either, even though we were done climbing.  This was also about the point I finally decided to try to take a leak, and as I figured, not much came out, but hey, at least the sensation was gone :)

This reminds me that, while on the main hill climb, there was a younger girl (18?) just a bit in front of me.  I could see her keep looking back as she'd jump into the bushes, and then back out.  I covered my eyes in an obvious way to say, go for it, I won't look.  Finally the third time she jumped into the bushes she stayed there.  This was pretty early in the climb.  And I swear maybe a mile or so later (after she's caught and passed me, grrr), she pulls over for another one!  She still finished the race ahead of me, although just a little :)

Anyway, the course continued to roll, few bits of more downhill stuff too.  Even a couple real short, slightly technical sections which were fun!  I was getting pretty beat though.  My watch said we'd done 10.5 miles, but I knew that was way ahead.  But, I kept thinking, ok, just roughly 30 minutes more, you can do that.  I was walking more often now too.

Finally, you could star to hear cheers and could tell we were getting to the bottom.  And then, we came into Shevlin park, sort of ran almost into some honey buckets (go team!) and made a 90 degree right onto....  an uphill paved road!  This was NOT a good point in the race for me.  All I could think was, "fuck, they are finishing the race on a paved uphill?!?!"  That section of pavement felt like it took forever.  I already knew I wasn't going to break 2 hours, but if the finish was at the end of the pavement I just might (since I knew this paved section was supposedly 0.7 miles, according to the announcement at the start).  I plodded along, looking for the covered bridge, as I knew that was the reason we were doing the pavement, so we could get to that.

Upon arriving at the covered bridge, the volunteers said you've got "about half a mile to go".  What?!?!  Ya, I wasn't happy.  Luckily it was back on to trail, but I was just beat at this point.  I tell ya, that is the longest half mile I've ever run!  It easily felt like a mile, and it took me almost that long (normal pace wise) to run it!  Oy.  So much for the 2 hour time.  Alas, the finish finally arrived, and I saw my beautiful wife, and things began to get better :)  I wound up 21st in my age group, and I think 124th overall (out of 353 I believe).

Reflecting on the race, while my time was a lot faster than I expected, I think why I'm not as happy as I could be is that that ending really just kind of sucked.  The paved uphill was just a real bummer kind of thing for me to finish with.  Plus, I realized, when you physically can't see, and don't know where the finish is, that makes things hard.  I wouldn't have thought that, but I realize that was one of the tough things.  In the end, my watch read 14.6 miles, so that had messed me up a little.  However, the flip side of all this is that I really want to get under two hours now.  So, maybe that's part of the problem with getting that close to 2 hours.  Maybe if I had gone 2:15, I'd have been like, ya, that's about what I expected, fine.  But, now that the two hours was only those 5 minutes away, and that finish was so brutal (for me), I think I just could taste the 2, and wanted it that much more.  Alas, gives me a goal.  It also showed me that I can run faster, and that I need to practice that a bit too.  It's made me realize that since I can't go run 10+ miles each run, when I do the shorter runs, I do need to ramp up the speed, and hopefully that'll help with upping my speed overall.  So, overall, a pretty good outcome, and I'm pretty excited to have my first half marathon in the bag!

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Posted August 8, 2010
 

Mountain Hardware/Montrail Tour du Mont Blanc Writups

I enjoyed running vicariously through Topher Gaylord (President of Montrail/Mountain Hardware) and friends' trip to train for Tour du Mont Blanc.  

Max King's blog entries:
Promo like video with Gaylord and King:

Max King, soul runner video from the trip:

Lisa Jhung's account on Runner's World

I recently picked up some Mountain Hardware Refueler shorts, and the Double Wicked Lite shirt.  Both are excellent for running, I really like them, and it doesn't hurt that they also look good.  I suspect I'll stay with the regular Refueler short, vs. the Refueler Advance that King talks about, since I am just now moving fro 9" inseam shorts to 7"...  Not ready to go to 5" yet :)

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Posted August 2, 2010
 

Learning to Go Hard

Something that's been playing on my mind a lot lately, is how I'm new enough to running that I don't really know my limits and thus understand how hard I can go for how long, and how long it'll take to recover (during the same run).  On the bike, I know this very well.  I know that if I hammer some hill, I know precisely how my legs feel, how long I can do that, when I need to let up, and then when I can do it again.  But with running, I don't.  Partly this is pure lack of experience, having seldom really tried to go hard for some particular distance.

Over the last two days, I've put in two solid road bike rides.  Both were short, only about 1hr 35 minutes.  The first day I did a ride I've done many times, which included the McBeth climb, and total ride vert of about 2400'.  I did this ride maybe 5-10 minutes faster than normal, which I believe was completely due to the fact that about halfway through it, I passed a guy on a TT or tri bike, who then appeared to jump on and start chasing me shortly after.  I turned around to see he was at the base of a short hill, when I was maybe halfway up.  It was game on!  

From that point on, I put in a solid pace, about as hard as I could go, but sustain for at least 30 minutes.  So, clearly not a sprint, and I was sitting the entire time, but a few mph faster than normal.  On the descent of the same hill, I dropped a water bottle (first time ever?), and thought he'd catch me, but he didn't.  Occasionally looking back, I could still see him, but by the junction on Lorane towards home, I'd apparently dropped him.  Was definitely a hammer ride, but felt good.

Yesterday I did a similar distance, similar vert climb, but not quite so hard.  During this I spent a lot of time thinking about doing hard efforts, and how to figure out how to do that during runs, in particular during races.  Usually on the bike, there are parts of a ride that this is easy to do and break into a particular chunk: a climb, or trying to drop someone who's behind you on a flat, or going hard to the next road you'll turn on, etc.  But, while running, about the only time I've really ramped up pace is when I've run downhill a bit, recovered, and am feeling fresh, and just feeling like turning it up a notch.  This doesn't usually last very long though, I'd bet the longest I've pushed a hard pace is maybe 1/3rd of a mile.  Partly I'm just not comfortable doing it, or rather, it feels odd.  It doesn't feel bad, it's just that my legs/body aren't used to it.  So, in part, I think I simply have to start doing it more.  Racing will be a good way to force the issue, but even there, I'm not typically racing a particular person, or care about that, so haven't.

Alas, for the upcoming Haulin Aspen half marathon, I'm currently strategizing that I'll do the first half of the race at my "usual" pace.  This is also the expected hardest half of the race as it has all the vertical gain.  But descents are usually where I can open things up anyway, and I think I'll be able to sustain a faster pace for longer and not run out of gas.  So, we'll see.  My goal will be to really try to put in some speed during the last half, when I can.  I don't expect to blitz the entire last half, but will conciously try to run faster than normal whenever possible.  Hopefully I can do that without bonking.

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Posted July 21, 2010
 

Another big run today

Today was pretty exciting in that I was able to do a 12 mile run only a couple days after doing my 14.5 mile/longest run to date.  At the 8-9 mile range, I felt awesome, not tired at all, and was starting to dream of doing up to 15 miles.  But, as I did some downhill on Willamette, some toes on my right foot flared up, and I could feel that it must be a couple blisters, as it was tender.  I knew I was also maybe a bit tight on water, so I headed back.  It was a good call in the end.  6 hours later (as I type this), and I'm fairly worked - just feeling like I need a bit of sugar, and still needing to drink a lot of water, but otherwise good.  Two of my toes do indeed have blisters.  I'm now debating whether I drain/pop them or what.  This is new territory for me (first set of blisters).

Today I ran with the Nathan pack again, thing is great.  I also tried orange flavored Hammer gel: excellent!  It's super light on flavor, actually bordering on not really even having flavor.  But, the real bonus was that it seemed far more liquidy than their other gels, so it was that much easier to consume.  This is going to be good stuff.  I also had some Sport Beans, and man, with the high salt in those, they just taste great deeper into a run when you've been sweating a lot and it's warm out.  Not something I can eat a lot of, but in the right moment, they're great.

Did the run in 1 hour and 59 minutes :)  Initially felt a bit of residual heaviness from Wednesday's run and Friday's road bike ride, but by a few miles in all was going well.  Did some decent hill work today.  Started at Spencer Butte parking, up and over to Fox Hollow, one typical lap there, then did a down and back up on the lower section that goes to Martin Street.  This is a solid descent and climb back up.  From there, up and over to Willamette, which is all I planned, but again, was feeling good, and even with the toes, wanted to do a bit more.  So, I did a brief bit on Blanton, to the little mini hill embedded in there, around that, and then back to Spencer parking.  12 miles probably (12.55 on my watch).  Good stuff.

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Posted July 17, 2010
 

Convincing Myself of Half Marathon: My Longest Run To Date

I am very happy with the outcome of yesterday's run.  I set out to do a long one, to get close to or do a half marathon distance, to see what that's like and prove to myself I can do that at the upcoming Haulin Aspen.  I wound up running even further than I planned, covering about 14 some-odd miles (my watch said 14.89, but it tends to overestimate a bit).  What I bummed about is that I simply can't seem to understand how I'm supposed to know how much ascent/descent I've done from my watch.  The watch tracks this, but I fail to see how to actually see the numbers!  The manual is not helpful.  I am curious because I'd like to know if I was at about the same as the Haulin Aspen will be (1300'), or more, or less.  VERY back of the napkin calculations would put me somewhere between 1000-1500', but with all the little ups and downs, it could be more.  

I felt really good during the run.  I didn't feel I was running a very fast pace, but I also didn't walk too much either.  My time was 2 hours 18 minutes, so that's a high 9 minute/mile pace assuming it was 14 miles.  That works.  Haulin Aspen will be harder for sure, simply due to the heat (my #1 concern), and the wildcard of the altitude (sometimes it affects me, sometimes it doesn't, thus "wildcard" status).  Yesterday I tried out a new hydration pack, the Nathan HPL #008.  This went a lot better than the other pack I tried last week, and this one is going to work really really well.  It fits great, was comfy to run in, and I really like the front pockets on the shoulder straps.  I was able to carry 50oz of water, of which I drank about 40-45 yesterday (was 75 degrees out), and carry some gels, and my iPhone.  The phone did start bouncing around a lot towards the end when I'd consumed the gels that it was sharing the zippered pocket with.  I'll have to think about the best way to alleviate that in the future.  Anyway, I plan to use this pack in the race.

Another thing I've surprised myself a bit with is how much I like Honey Stinger "gold" gels.  I normally don't like super sweet stuff, but damn if these don't taste just awesome on the trail! They are a bit like a somewhat more liquid packet of honey, and I am just loving them right now.  I would say my mainstays are still a variety of gels from Hammer, in particular the Banana, Espresso, and I'm now trying their new Montana Huckleberry.  But the Honey Stingers, especially towards the end, are great.  They're easier to consume as they're more liquidy (than most gels, except maybe those crazy 4x salt versions of the Powergels), and their taste just really hits the spot when you're worked (although so do the Banana Hammer gels).

This morning, I'm feeling good.  Just hanging around, I feel very little residual soreness or what not from the run, which is great.  I know if I were to go run I'd be feeling it for sure, but feel I've recovered pretty well.

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Posted July 15, 2010