14 miles

Oh let's see....
I made it 14 miles yesterday.  Figured I might as well just head over to the farm and back.  It was around 3 hours 15 minutes I think, but that could be cut down a bit.  Took a minute at the farm, and then ran into the neighbors and talked to them for a few minutes.
Then a few minutes to put some gatorade in the Camelbak and move fuel around.
Also too many pee breaks.
This was my first time with the new insulated tube for the Camelback and the meter to tell how much I'm drinking.  Notes:  The meter is a turbine in the tube and is not insulated...  Things still get slushy after 10-20 minutes and they get stuck at the turbine.  Thankfully not a huge deal to disconnect the hose, suck out both ends and get things going again.
Also not sure how inaccurate the gauge is on it's own, or just with the slushing problems, but pretty sure it was closer to reading half of what I drank based on when I seemed to run out after a 50% refill of gatorade.  And that's fine cause it would certainly work out better if I drank less and didn't need to stop 4 or 5 times on the return trip to pee!
I think next time I'll try it with about half of what the meter reads and see how that level of hydration works.

Lost one headphone bud thingy last weekend so I had tried my older headphones but found out they only last about 2 hours.  Then somehow I ended up taking them again today after already using them for more than an hour the day before.  That meant I had about 1.5hrs before they died.  So I just used the phone speaker for the rest of the run.

Either way, Just before I got back to our property at like 13.92 miles, the phone crashed/rebooted.  Not sure what exactly the issue was.  Pretty sure I saw the "background data restricted" message that shows up with low battery, but it was reading like 31%...  Maybe with everything running before the crash it dropped lower or something, but I would have thought I would have at least gotten a warning....  Historically, this phone(Moto X) has had a pretty reasonable battery capacity.

But this does make me question if I should be looking at a GPS watch again...  I'm really on the fence with that one.  On the on hand, it sounds great to have a device that theoretically should "just work" and not have any battery problems, etc. and give me perhaps some better info while running...
On the OTHER hand, it's not cheap, I THINK I'll have to take it back and plug it into my laptop to sync it and I still have some question if it's going to count towards my Gympact with it's uploaded logs to Runkeeper...  Plus, it's nice to just have everything centralized on my phone, along with music/podcasts or whatever...
There's also the question of if I start trying to get a bit of swimming in...  Not necessarily laps, but going across the lake maybe...  Not sure if my theoretically waterproof phone or the watch would work much better, each sounds like they have some issues from what I can gather...

The other big ticket item that I'm hitting YET AGAIN...  Is headphones.  I think I have at least a half dozen sets of BT headphones(SOOO much nicer than wired) and pfft, probably a couple dozen sets of wired buds, headphones, what not...
So I'm contemplating  spending some serious coin on a set of heapdphones in hopes of getting something that will go the distance...  Previous issues have been...  Physical breaking plastic, electronic breaking/battery dead/etc, battery life, losing buds, less than enjoyable comfort, etc...
Yurbuds seems to have a set with a lifetime guarantee, that goes over your ear(those seem to fit me the best), comfortable, 6hr battery life(hopefully that would cover the longest of my runs), and do not have a band, so I should be able to just have one in if I want to hear more of the outside world as well.  Not to mention that I'd like to think that would make it easier to remove/reinsert with one hand and without knocking the bud part off...  Though they do have those bud things, so that's a potential problem, but really I think they'll all have that.
I also looked a bit for headphones for swimming, but from what I can tell, bluetooth just pretty much doesn't work in water so I think I could use my existing wired yurbuds if I was going to try that...

Otherwise though, the run went pretty well.
I had a good amount of right side lower calf pain from the 12 mile run last week, but it was pretty much gone by mid-late week.  But I could feel it a bit during the 6 mile run Saturday(I think the hills get it more).  And I felt it Sunday, but it wasn't too bad.  Well, by the end it was getting pretty darn tired.  I was definitely walking a good bit more for those last few miles.  But certainly nothing not doable or anything to make me thing I can't go farther. Walking has always been fine and the last 2 weeks I've increased my long runs by a couple miles each time which is a bit of a stretch for sure.  And I think my other runs during the week have been more like 50%+ more than they were as well...
So I think overall I'm pretty happy with where I'm at and a bit of soreness isn't unexpected, I'm still working in these distances.

Really need to get a rope hung to try climbing, Humdinger is coming up in a couple weeks!