At the very least, I completed a distance PR - a hair under 17 miles (although I'm confident it was 17 since I stopped my Garmin for a brief moment and forgot to restart). Part of me thinks that's the only thing I got out of it.
I'm not very happy with my run...the speed I was going would have had me pulled at Checkpoint #3. I feel ok on hills, but not the long climbs that make up the Sehgahunda course. When I get tired I get clumsy...in the second half of the run I tripped three times - hard - and rolled my ankle (which thankfully feels okay today).
I looked at each gully on the "back" route, gullies I had crossed just hours before before, and felt the delay of the brain-muscle communication that comes with fatigue. Each gully looked like the English Channel - and I looked dumbfounded, like a pig looking at a wristwatch, trying to figure out how to cross it. Each branch that laid across the single-track looked the size of a Buick.
The only landmark that brought any energy to me was seeing the powerlines that led back to the finish at Checkpoint #1. And I swear seeing that was like witnessing the Second Coming of Christ.
Buttercup needs to toughen up if she's going to finish this race.
Glad to see the training is going. Hope the ankle is fine. Mine has been sucky this last month but I'm slowly getting back into it. I can't wait to hear how the race goes.
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