Mile 583, Oaks Spring
"Slack packing": a term to describe a thruhiker who caches their backpacking gear down the trail and then hikes back to it. I am one of those today. A slacker!
I ran an 8-mile stretch of trail with Neon this morning and it was marvelous. Such a fun way to experience an otherwise pretty uneventful and waterless section. It was also an interesting look at how my body's changing a month into my hike. Fast twitch muscles are no good-the ones used for charging up hills. But a couple miles in, slow twitch took over and I felt AMAZING. So strong and solid and supported, even on a long downhill and some road. This is the fittest I've ever been.. So weird to think about what's going on in my body as I hike almost a marathon a day.
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