Notes
Decent run. Goal was to run 13.1 if I felt up to it, and longer for extra credit. Skipped the extra credit today out of caution. It was 59-64 degrees, mostly cloudy, stiff breeze from the west, so a head wind on each return trip. Only had tea and a banana for breakfast (300 calories) and weight was way down still despite "over-eating" last night, so I took one gel before starting off. I definitely felt a drop off in carb energy after mile 7, and it shows in the splits. Decided not to indulge in more gel, so as to run in a slight carb-depleted state. Combined with the headwind, this made the last three miles less easy than the first miles.
Run time, 1:34:57 for 13.13
stop time for water and adjust gel packets once, 1:20
Total time start to finish, 1:36:17
Walked a bit afterwards, Rotolo came by on his bike, said he also had odd cramps in his calves a week or two ago out here on the trail while biking, sounds similar to what happened to me!? He also needed a couple days for it to go away. This makes me wonder if the pesticide or herbicide spraying they were doing out here in the past week or two had anything to do with this!?!?!!!