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We reached Powells Fort, mile 89.3, still 45 min ahead of the cutoff. The 5.2 miles from Woodstock took 2:25. At that pace, I wasn't going to finish. We both new it. We left the aid station crying.
We ran for a couples miles on a fire road before getting to here, the Tuscarora Trail. We needed to make up sometime and were able to - a little running here, fast walking there, a little more running to that tree with the blaze on it, a little more walking. Then we hit this trail. I knew we were close, yet, still so far away.
My bottles were full of water on one side, and my mix of Gatorade and CarboPro in the other. I didn't drink much of either the last 20 miles or so.