Last Wednesday, I had the run from hell. \u00a0I attempted to run from the Shell Station adjacent to Highway 82 to my son’s apartment (approximately 20 miles apart). \u00a0It was an Epic Fail.<\/p>\n
The weather last Wednesday was rather warm. \u00a0Very sunny. \u00a0No breeze. \u00a0I overheated. \u00a0Got dizzy. \u00a0Quit sweating. \u00a0It was not any fun. \u00a0I gave up at mile 13 and called MFH (My Favorite Husband) to come and get me. \u00a0I felt like a failure. \u00a0I had never had a DNF in a training run let alone a race!<\/p>\n
Today, the same run was staring me in the face. \u00a0Again, it was rather warm. \u00a0It was very sunny, BUT there was a very nice breeze coming from the West and I was heading West the entire distance. \u00a0Cool Beans!<\/p>\n
The first 10 miles of the run was not much fun. \u00a0I could not get myself in gear. \u00a0It was a struggle. \u00a0I stopped at the second water stop next to EMCC (East Mississippi Community College). \u00a0I filled up my water bottle with some Gatorade and treated myself to a Gu. \u00a0I took off for the hilly section of Highway 182.<\/p>\n
I do not know what changed but all of a sudden my pace picked up 1.50 minutes per mile. \u00a0I was sailing! \u00a0Awesome!<\/p>\n
Up one hill and down the next. \u00a0Traffic was heavy but I did not care. \u00a0I was being careful but cruising along. \u00a0This was great! \u00a0I stopped at the third water stop, changed my socks and took off again.<\/p>\n
The next thing I knew, I was at the Highway 82 clover leaf. \u00a0I tip toed past that~that is a tricky spot, and pulled off to my last water stop. I called MFH to let him know where I was, that way he could start from home and meet me at my son’s apartment.<\/p>\n
A couple of more miles through the apartment complex and ta-dah! \u00a0There I was. \u00a0Mission complete! \u00a0What an awesome run!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last Wednesday, I had the run from hell. \u00a0I attempted to run from the Shell Station adjacent to Highway 82 to my son’s apartment (approximately 20 miles apart). \u00a0It was an Epic Fail. The weather last Wednesday was rather warm. \u00a0Very sunny. \u00a0No breeze. \u00a0I overheated. \u00a0Got dizzy. \u00a0Quit sweating. \u00a0It was not any fun. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}