Hello, and here we are again trying to smash through that freakin' 20 mile glass ceiling. Brad and I had it all planned out we did. Tired of chasing through the maze of Foxes around here we opted for the pristine trials, oops I meant to type trails of Pocohantas State Park. It is truly lovely there and we had a flipping hoot of a time when we camped there this summer, but we knew there were several great trails we could run to break up the Foxy monotony of our distance runs.
We filled water bottles with Accelerade, the fruit punch kind, my new favorite flavor, Gatorade and ice water. We grabbed Bumble Bars, Cliff bars and Snickers marathon bars. Plus our new favorite GU, the vanilla orange Roctance. I also brought along some Luna Moons, not unlike my Jolly Rancher Sport Beans that I like so well. A lot stickier though so you get the added fun of trying to pick your teeth while you are scooting along. Hey, anything to keep me occupied. Otherwise I start imagining I am running with Edward Cullen, which really isn't a bad thing if you know anything about him, but he's faster then I am so I can't keep that pace, hahahaha!
We get to Pocohantas and decide to run the Old Mill Trail with like a lollipop loop to add to the mileage and make it end up at the parking lot where Brad's truck is parked. That is where we have our beverage station set up. It was perfect really. After our first uneventful running 12 minute miles loop, we reload our fuel belts and off we go. We ran the next one at a much faster pace. We ran 9 minutes on the downhills, 10 on the flats, 11 on the uphills. I had to imagine myself on my mountain bike on some of those uphills though. They hurt to go up, especially the one that was like a 45 degree angle leading up to our SAG wagon set up! We completed our next 5.6, replenish our stores and set off again. This time we take Beaver Lake Trail. Hahaha, Beaver lake, hahaha, anyway it was a mountain bike path. I had to imagine myself on my bike for it too. It would have been a fun trail to ride for sure, see my Muddy Buddy post if you want some insight into my mountain bike prowess or lack thereof, it sucked to run for me. That much faster pace on the last loop tapped me. We continued to run, did a modified last loop and wound up at the car. We did 17 miles, we didn't have time to finish the full 20, we needed to start the kid round up.
Anyway, we get back to the truck, Brad grabbed the two ice filled water bottles from the cooler and hands one to me. I greedily start slurping the water down my throat, I had ripped the top off because that squirt action was just pissing me off, and lo and behold an ice cube hit that little punching bag down the back of my throat and starts my gag reflex. Just then, this old couple who had been walking the trails comes right up to the back end of our truck where I am now in the process of trying not to heave as the water is pouring out of my nose like Niagara Falls. I walk to the front of our truck because now boogies from the back of my throat are mixing in with everything and it is all running for the nearest exit like patrons in a crowded movie theater and a fire breaks out. At that point all I heard was the roar of everything making it's grand entrance onto the pavement below and their Volkswagen Bug trying it's buggy best to get away from the barfing extravaganza that was occurring! Then, after everything drained from me like the plug being pulled from a tub, I started to laugh. That poor old couple! I can't imagine what I looked like. Probably red faced, maybe like one of those angel fountains with water spewing from it's mouth (and nose!), drenched in sweat...My spectacle was only outdone by my husband deciding he needed to get changed with a towel wrapped around his waist. If that towel had fallen, oh the humanity!!! I still laugh when I think about all of it. Unfortunately the glass ceiling still is intact, we're going to have to do something about that soon. All of those hills had to count for something, straigten out the course we ran and it had to be 20 miles right???
3 comments:
It was even funnier reading about it then living it! You forgot the part about you going Jekyll and Hyde on me when I casually mentioned that we might need to go get the kids before we hit 20 miles :)
Oh do shut up Portia!!!
Love the part about Edward!!If you need Edward to slow down just ask him too & he will bc that's the kind of man he is.
A neighbor of mine just ran his first marathon, the St. George, on Sat. It was rainy. His time was 3:58.
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