500 miles!
I hit mile 900 during this last leg, which given the ~390 miles I skipped, puts me past 500 miles and just about 1/5 of the way through the trail.
More milestones!
My shoes picked this as the point where they’d had enough, so I was thrilled to pick up a new pair Naomi mailed.
New and old—admittedly, they were different colors to start
Naomi even pre-stretched them using the setup I improvised using hardware from the Big Bear home improvement store. Stretching the old pair kept them from rubbing on my Achilles’ tendon, but the rig was heavy, so I mailed it home.
Streeeetch!
Pretty good for an $8.00 solution!