FIXING THE BROKEN BITS
The very nature of trail running is why a lot of us love it: the pure adrenaline of grinding up a steep hill, gutted out with ravines, with just scrub or your fellow trail runner to get you up to the top. Then comes the free-fall descent slick with mud and unstable scree. Add to that the crossing of icy cold rivers with rickety boulders just out of the water’s depth or a forest track deep with leaf litter hiding a twisted tree root lying in wait.
The kind of focus that is required to keep us upright and moving safely keeps us in the now and makes us feel alive, but a moment of inattention can lead to some epic falls and injuries! It is almost a rite of passage to cross a finish line with streaks of blood mixed in with the mud and sweat, so I
