Well, tt ended up taking me an hour and a half to do the eight, which was mostly on dirt road and trail. It was a really nice run and I had a great time and felt like I could have kept going! My poor husband was not expecting me at 6:30 and did not have dinner ready! Bad husband!

I had two of those small water bottles in a fanny pack. I drank half from each. I probably should have drank more but I wasn't inclined to. I tried to drink at every mile but I just forgot.

One good thing is that I had no trouble running and sipping at the same time... I had a problem with that with the paper cups during races - but the bottles are pretty easy to sip from while running. So I didn't walk through my water breaks, I kept running, albeit a little more slowly.