Notes
Here's where my head got really screwed up. I was having trouble concentrating, focussing and feeling my balance. Based on this and some dark yellow urine at mile18.5 I'd say I was right to guzzle my drink. I was carrying a 20oz with 2 scoops SE and 1 scoop Heed in Iced Tea. I think this was much too rich. The pee was about 16 oz later in the run from when trouble started. My shorts were crusted with salt, and at the end of the run I had a mask of salt. Not some white lines here and there, but a white face with enormous crystals growing from my eyebrows and hairline! So suspecting Dehydration after the half, I soon could not breathe well through my nose. My neck and thorasic outlet was all messed up. I'd struggle with this for the rest of the 'run'. I did little uphill running, little running at all. This problem with my sinuses yanking the eustacian tubes was totally debilitating. I couldn't speak without my own voice being piped into my eardrum for over an hour after the run, hard to communicate with people. Breathing was hard to manage. From all the walking my feet were just destroyed on the rocks. Based on the freakish salt crust, and a known issue with my sinuses/tear ducts I'm sure salt crystals messed up my already challenged architecture in there. I'm writing this the following day, after getting very little sleep. I woke 5 times in 6 hours to drink, must have drank a gallon of water.