Day 4,451—Two Weeks until Vero Beach in Florida and Running with 3 Liters of Water!—
Start time: 8:50 a.m. Weather: Mid 70s, wind 3.8 mi/h, Humidity 90% I figured I would start tapering for Vero Beach today, but I still needed to practice running with my new hydration bladder. It was a little tricky getting into my vest and figuring out how to drink from it efficiently, but I got the hang of it after a while. It is so heavy to carry! It doesn’t feel too bad when you start out, but after a while, I am just having to walk more and feeling like there is no way I am going to run up Gravois once I made it there. I wasn’t sure exactly how many miles this route would be, so I took an early picture of what used to be a cover around a dumpster. It had clearly been on fire, so I wonder what caused it. They used to always say at that apartment complex not to dump hot coals from grills into the dumpsters, so maybe that is what happened. I was taking a break from books and listening to a podcast for half this run, but then I switched back to book...
