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My husband and I started trail running when we lived in Austin, and prior to that, I never ran with hydration. I hate holding anything while I run, so I never used water bottles and I would either find routes with water fountains along the way or would circle back home to get water. Enter trail running. Neither of those two things were possible anymore, yet I still hated holding something, so I knew I needed to find a hydration vest.
We jumped into trail running pretty quickly, so I didn’t do much research on packs. We went to REI the night before going on a long trail run and I tried on all the vests there. The Osprey one was by far my favorite and luckily, I’ve loved it since then!
Here is what I love about it:
I will say, this pack is perfect for my training runs now, however, I don’t know if it will hold everything I need for the ultramarathon I'm running in November. The pockets in the front are big enough to hold 3-4 gels/energy bloks on each side (which is more than enough for a marathon training run), but they wouldn’t be big enough for all the food I’ll need during the ultra. If you're running a marathon, you won't want the hydration pack during the actual race, so I think this would be perfect to use for training during that cycle!
The bladder holds 1.5 liters – hence its name – which for me, lasts anywhere from 11-13 miles depending on how much I drink. I never ran on trails longer than that and now, I'll make my route run past my car at that point and refill it for the rest of my runs if need be.
You can see videos of me wearing it on my Instagram and TikTok.