Holy $%@^ing Asscrackers

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I just ran for just over 2 hours (2:02:27 to be precise) and I'm told by people whose opinions I trust that I survived. I was considering going for another 15 minutes, but my knees and feet were giving me those special "warning" twinges which indicate that if I don't lay off pretty damn pronto, I'm going to regret it later.

Really, the take home message of this run is that those sports jelly beans work like a charm. I ate two of them every fifteen minutes starting at 30 minutes in and they didn't cause any digestion problems. My heart rate stayed in a really good range for me on that run as well, which I think the electrolytes had something to do with. My only regret is that I didn't have any water with me, and the beans are pretty strongly flavored. I should have had some water with me for health reasons as well, but I still haven't found a good way to carry it. I asked the guy at the store where I bought these how he handles water on his training run, and he says he just plans his course so that he goes past a lot of water fountains. Not a big help.

I'm going to go fall down and die now.