Birthday Run.  52k for 52 years. 

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Bruksleden 100.  Maybe an FKT... maybe not

The main goal here was to just run 100 miles of something epic.  THAT is complete.  Stunning beautiful, running along remote lakes, fields of ripe wild blueberries (yum), and amazing single track.  

As an FKT attempt, it may or may not get approved.  There was one section where I followed the Bruksleden GPS track AND the orange markers.  But it turned out this section had been abandoned for a different section.  Both were about the same length, difficulty, etc.  In my defense, it was a) a prior existing section b) there was no posting that it had been changed (and there was one in the opposite direction when they met up!), and c) the orange stripes and dots had not been removed, which is something they DO do in other sections.  Very frustrating, but... whatever!

Note for people who would like to replicate:

1. I put 7 food and water drops at various locations.  Contact me if you want the drop points.  I put the food and medical in sealed glass storage food canisters from Ikea:  learned that the hard way when animals ate all my food at a drop on a different route. 

2. Parts of this route are REALLY hard to follow.  Maybe only 5-7k total, but HARD.   You should start this route super early in the morning and shoot to get through about 98km BEFORE DARK.  I got through that section at dusk, and even with light, it was nearly impossible to find the route.  Use the GPS...  map ain't gonna help you with this. 

3.  Love it.  Take time to take pictures.  This should be FUN.  And it was.  Super fun, although I was a wreck by the end.  Very hard to motivate when you are not in a race and the only one out there!

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