Tripper

Distance: 13.5 mi

Time: 2:14:29

Well, that was stupid.  Nothing like going for a 13 mile UNSUPPORTED run because you forgot your hydration pack and were too stubborn to go back and get it.  Oh, and I had lots of opportunities to call the run short (ran right by the truck at 5 miles, at which point I felt great…) but NOOOOOO… I gotta get my mileage in and stick to my plan.  Why wait one more day (it’s supposed to be cooler tomorrow, too…) and be prepared when you can “man up” and hurt yourself today?  Sometimes you have a bad run and there is no reason for it.  You do everything right and it still falls to sh!t…  Some days?  It’s pretty obvious what who the problem is…  And to top it all off, about mile 9 I was starting to fatigue and tripped over an infinitesimally small bump on an entrance to a bridge and went down in a heap right in front of the guy I was running with and took him out too (at least he landed on something soft and squishy… me…).  What a mess…  I got this HUGE bruise on my pride and scraped my ego all up… I think I even dented my dignity (it’s so small it’s hard to tell, though…).

But.

Believe it or not, through all of this, I still had a pretty good run.  I was happy with everything up to the last 3 miles, when I ran out of energy completely and had to walk a bit.  But even then, it was a good learning experience, a pretty day, and the people I ran with were great (even the ones I took out…).  In the end, there were no injuries, no blood, no scars and no cameras so it didn’t really happen…!  And I bagged another 13 miles.  I’m good with that.