Petestack Blog

Don’t like bladders with drinking tubes for running (stopped using them and went back to bottles years ago), but don’t like handhelds either (like to keep my hands as free as possible). So I’ve been using my Nathan belts or a sack with hip-level holsters for most of my ultras and longer training/fun runs, but rarely escape from a long run without these things rubbing holes in my back. So I was already looking for something with chest-level, front bottle carriers when my interest was recently picqued by the increasingly popular Ultimate Direction Signature Series vests and, with the West Highland Way Race just weeks away, quickly found myself ordering the new version of the middle (Scott Jurek) model. (more…)

First blog post for months, but why not when I’ve got a good, big run to report?

Knew I wanted something in the 40–50 mile region about now, but not what till I drew up and measured this ‘big Blackwater loop’ on the map last weekend at c.45 miles. At which point, having run everything west of the railway before (most of it many times) but never really considered a pedestrian route between Rannoch and Corrour Stations to link it all up, I was suddenly positively tingling with the anticipation that sent me out to try it yesterday. (more…)