The overnight low was in the high 50’s last night and hiking in the woods for the 10 miler I knew I would be primarily under cover.
This would be my longest hump in a long time. I filled my
70 oz water reservoir and made sure I had Bluetooth earpieces to listen to music.
I got out of bed at 0800 and after breakfast I finally hit the road at 1000.
I knew I would not be alone on some of the trail, but once
I got out of the 3-mile loop it would be me and the occasional pasture puppies
(horses).
I would need to share the trail with the horses. I felt
good throughout the entire hump and wanted to keep my 3-mph pace.
The hump would have been 10 miles, but I did not want to
traverse a large grass hill diagonally across the slope. There was no trail that I could see so I hiked
into the saddle at the toe of the slopes and continued into the woods.
My hiking speed was an average of 3.1 mph. I ascended a
total of 1453 feet and descended a total of 1443 feet. This was spread out over
the entire 9.5-mile loop.
At the end of hump I had less 10 ounces of water left in
the reservoir!
The conditioning won’t stop, and this was a good check to see how I was progressing!
Be well folks,
Sonder
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