Doudy

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This was really useful, I'll be much more confident going into the race knowing the trails and navigation on the course. 

Attempted to stay below race effort, which is hard to do for such a long and slow race. But i took really good care of myself and was feeling good almost the whole time, with the exception of getting hot during a couple of stretches in the second half.

Made full use of map, course directions, and flagging that's already up for the race. I can see why a lot of people have gotten lost at this race, the trails are so faint and turns are subtle (at least compared to established trails I'm used to). So I took my time trying to make sure to understand the route and get the turns right, spending a lot of time reading both the instructions and map leading up to and at all of the turns. I still lost the trail somewhere around mile 28 and ended up cutting a little off the top of the loop and doing some mthing closer tonthe 60k route, but at least I now know 95% of the turns and know the one place toneatch out.

First few miles are dangerously easy to run fast. The descent off seven Utes is so steep and so narrow, but also so pretty! A bit more "road" than I was expecting. But the old logging roads are still plenty technical. The climb up Diamond reminded me of hiking up the gondola at the beginning of Run Rabbit, just 20 miles in instead of at the beginning. The ridge from Diamond was awesome. The last uphill miles will be really hard to keep grinding, but the last 4-5 miles could be really fast if everything goes right during the race.

4 waffles, 1 pack honey stinger chews, 260 calories gummy bears, 240 calories PB pretzels, 240 calories rice sticks, 280 calories mangoes, 3 bottles scratch, 8 bottles water. Total estimate 2000 calories, 5.5 liters, 1800 mg sodium.

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Doudy

Xmas sunrise ❄️🎅

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Skratch run

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