Birthday Run.  52k for 52 years. 

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Hammar Time 50k.  FKT!

Bruksleden 100.  Maybe an FKT... maybe not

The ever epic, amazingly beautiful, and seriously much more technical and harder than it looks loop around near HalstaHAMMER and SuraHAMMAR.  

Soooooo, the prior FKT on the Bruksleden was fun and all, but then the official Bruksleden trail CHANGED, and is now a bit over 4km longer.  Which raises the question:  Is the old time even valid anymore?

Had to do the new, longer reroute and beat the old time because that was really bothering me.   Was a great run, but BARELY made it.   Like by 3-4 minutes, and I probably only wasted a few scant minutes total on that route (very few pictures, off route for less than a minute, and a tumbling fall down a granite slab.    It's a shame about the reroute: I don't think I would have cracked six hours on this run, but I would have been under 6:10 for sure, making it a possible goal.  But no way with this new longer section.

I ran it counter clockwise, which I still feel is a hair slower, but there is (almost) no water the first half.  I had a naked belt, drank a lot before I left, and then had two 20oz soft flasks.  Those were then filled up the lake around half way in, and then the spring by the camping hut a bit under two hours later.   

Going light and lean was the call for sure.  I would not do it with a hydration pack like last time:  the belt and two bottles was perfect. 



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Bruksleden 100. Maybe an FKT... maybe not

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