Looks like I am gonna make it again this year! Although there is a new 11 hour cutoff, I might be in trouble.
Glad you had a good time and enjoyed yourself despite timing out Abide. Ya I have found sandals of any sort to not be so good in muddy conditions. That obviously did not help your speed at all. I am contemplating a sandal (homemade) that the foot will sit in better without sliding around on top of sandal in muddy conditions. The trick is to stabilize both sides of the foot and to keep the foot from sliding forward and backwards, kinda like the Pah Tempes would in theory. If I come up with a good version of a sandal I will post a picture for you so maybe you can attempt to make your own. I have a muddy race coming up end of May plus a good couple of trail races next year that should be good tests for it.Well I attempted to run the race but ended up timing out about halfway through. I still had a blast and enjoyed the 25 miles of the muddy course. I wore my lunas which probably wasn't the best idea for muddy conditions. However because it was so muddy I ended up running/hiking about 10 miles barefoot.