About 3.5 miles into today's 16-miler (which turned out to be 16.5 plus some walking) I felt some dripping on my left leg. I thought it was a top on one of the bottles on my belt with a top that wasn't closed all the way. It turned out to be a cracked bottle that was almost empty. Then about a hundred yards after I emptied that one I felt more dripping on my leg, and discovered that the top on another bottle was missing. I turned around and discovered it was actually caught in my shirt However I was down to pretty much 2.5 bottles of sports drink to last the next 12.5 miles.
Fortunately the sky was overcast and I made it. If the sun had come out like it did a couple of weeks ago there is no way I would have lasted. Which was even more fortunate because I took an ill-advised detour into a neighborhood just north of Stacy Road which I though would provide a route through an apartment complex and get me off the main road. No. It added about 2/3 of a mile to my overall run.
It was a tiring run and humid, which is normally my Achilles' heel. The cloud cover helped me make it through. Hopefully next week will also be better as far as equipment goes.
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