Running Chick

I forgot half of my lunch at home and didn’t find anything of substance in the MUB, so I grabbed a bag of Chex Mix. Eat the entire thing, it was so good.  Headed out for my 8-miler later in the day and bonked. Geez, wonder why?

The first four miles on the Covered Drive were pretty good. Zoe and I managed to cruise along somewhere in the 9:30s or something like that. Once we hit the turn-around point, I started to poop out (see above).  My pace doesn’t really reflect it, but the only reason I was able to keep going was because Miss Zoe was pulling me along.  Every time I tried to slow down, she’d throw me a look over her shoulder as if to tell me that I’d better step up or step out. Ugh, damn dog.  It wasn’t one of my better runs (last week’s was way better), but it’s done, logged and marked off on the calendar. Onward!

I’ve been running out of fluids on my long runs so I upgraded to a four-bottle hydration belt.

This is the Nathan Trail Mix 4, which I picked up from Running Warehouse.  It took what seemed like forever to me to make enough adjustments so that it wouldn’t bounce around, but when I finally found the magic combination, the thing didn’t budge, even with four full bottles. The pouch is just the right size for my phone and the various other things I schlep along.  I found the bottles easy to remove/insert from the holsters and I like the caps way better than those on my Trail Mix, especially since they didn’t leak!  In the amazon.com reviews, some people mentioned that their bottles randomly fell out of the holsters.  The fit seemed pretty tight so my bottles weren’t budging.  I did a lot of bending over to tend to Zoe, and the bottles never budged, either. Who knows, maybe the holsters will loosen up in the coming months.

For today’s test run, I carried two bottles for me and two for Zoe.  She likes for me to squirt the water into her mouth, the caps made this pretty easy to manage.  Two thumbs up from me, two paws up from Zoe.