After being laid flat by cramps this morning, I spent half the day in my P.J.s. I knew I had to do this 13 miler today or I would never make it up tomorrow.
My plan was to wait until this evening when the weather would be cooler. At 2:30 I looked on Weather.com and saw that cooler temps wouldn't arrive until 10:00PM. I'm not a nighttime runner, so that left me no choice. I'd have to just do it during the heat of the afternoon. First, though, I plotted out a 13 mile course on mapmyrun.com and loaded it onto my Garmin. How cool! It gave me a map and pointed me in the right direction throughout my run.
At 3:15 it was 84 degrees and the sun was shining. I started running and thought "it's really pretty warm out here." An hour later, Scott found me with the car and brought me a cold water. It was 88 degrees and still sunny. An hour after that, when Scott delivered another bottle of water, it was cooling off -- 86 degrees.
I shuffled through the miles. I had mild cramps when I started, but didn't pay too much attention because of the heat and the fact that I slowed so much that my gait changed thus causing my legs to get tired and sore. All along I kept thinking to myself: "MIND OVER BODY. MIND OVER BODY."
I'm not sure how much I drank, but I know it was alot. I started with 4 7 oz bottles, filled them all up at least once and had 2 16 oz botttles of water delivered to me. Some got poured over me. I drank the rest. I would say too that it's useful for other reasons to wear a skirt, but that might be TMI. Guys, you don't know how lucky you are.
I stopped at exactly 13 miles. Not a step further. I got it done. I'm still on schedule.
WTD: 31YTD: 816.20
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3 comments:
Very nice! What a great effort!Sometimes it IS just about getting it done, period.
So glad Tea tagged you, I can tell already you'll make me feel like getting out the door on bad days!
Sometimes it has to be mind over body to get it done. But it always feels good to know you did!
Nice blog..
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