+27 today. 26.3 mile trail race, about a mile of warm-up and cooldown. Rounding down to 27.
I'm gonna write a race report, but for now let's just say holy fvck what a difficult course. First off, it was hot and humid. Second, tons of roots and rocks. Third - gullies! Fourth, there was about 4000 of net elevation gain. The elevation profile looks like a jagged sawtooth waveform with a steady overall rise. Fifth - deerflies.
The bad news is that my time sucked - I came in at 6:57:xx. The good news was that my son finished! He came in 20 minutes after I did, but he did NOT DNF this time. I am really proud of him. Our next race is in a month and is 50 miles on a trail, but the course is much flatter. Hopefully I can make a better report after that race.
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