Long practice at Rockhaven today. I ran a course that Mike, Jenny and Ulrik did last week. I started from a different location, and went to most, but not all of the controls. I had three goals today: 1. read ahead. 2. Stop as soon as things don't make sense. 3. See how my body reacted to no food. I did really well on 1 (for the first 90 minutes or so) and 2 (until 1:55 or so).
Step three was interesting. I usually take Cliff Blocks with me on my 2 hour runs. Today, I only carried diluted Gatorade. My mind was fine for 60 minutes; then I started to make minor mistakes, which I caught quickly. At 1:40, I started to react instead of predict what I would see. At 1:55, I hit the wall, started confusing up with down, and made a huge mistake. So now I know.
most of my route