Do You Wanna Know How I Got These Scars?
I did 19 miles with Stacie this morning. She ran hard yesterday, so I knew this was going to be difficult for her, but it is nice to run with her and she keeps my pace down so that I don't over-do it. We were going to go leave a car somewhere last night and run to it this morning, but she was busy helping Jane prepare for pioneer trek next week. So we had to do an out-and-back and that meant Wasatch again, only I found a slightly better way up it this time. Was late getting going. I couldn't find my water bottle. I had left it in my running bag from the Island Park trip. Stacie had to find it for me, which had her happy. Then my watch wouldn't find the satellites. It eventually found them--about 10 miles into our run. It was a good run. I felt good the whole way without any trouble from my leg. I'm starting to feel like I could survive a marathon. The next six weeks will be about being able to run it, though. I finally figured out how to eat gel on the run. I am using eGel (the e is for electrolytes, not electronic, though that might be cool) because it has more calories and a ton of electrolytes. The problem with it is the packet size. They are an ideal width for a white rhino or a hippo or something with a much wider mouth than me. I figured out that I put the packets in my mouth, bite down, and pull the packet out, leaving the gel inside my mouth. Then I try to swallow when I'm not breathing. I have to repeat this a couple of times to get all the e-gel out and the width of the packet ends up slicing the corners of my mouth. So I've been feeling a bit like the Joker from "The Dark Knight" all day.
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