Let's Get Dizzy: Pulse Endurance Race
So this winter I'd been doing a lot of treadmill running (like A LOT of treadmill running). I had developed several solid overuse injuries over the last season, and needed to let those heal while still stretching the legs. Nothing does this better (or is more mind numbing) than a 60k on the treadmill. Over the course of these countless hours binge watching Netflix while jogging on the hamster wheel, I decided I wanted to try a timed event, looped course. This would give me a chance to get an early season 100 mile out of the way, and make sure my body was ready for another summer of suffering. I selected the Pulse Endurance Run near Boise, Idaho. It was a short 13 hour drive from where I live in Fernie, Britsh Columbia, and coincided nicely with some banked holidays I had to use or lose. I signed up for the 48 hour event to make sure I would have enough time to get my miles in, packed my SUV with a bed and all the gear you would ever need for a Spring run, and headed o