THIS Guy!
Man, I should have been running 20 milers at the NCR trail the whole time. I knew I was golden when I got to 15 miles and thought to myself, "hey, there's only 5 miles left" rather than, "Oh, dear god help me... there's still 5 miles left."
The only problem I had was that I ran a half mile further out, meaning I ran 10.5 miles out and 9.5 miles in. That caused me to have to walk about a mile when the 20 was up. I thought it'd be a nice cool-down, but a mile was too far and I was getting pretty sore walking. But then I stretched out and chilled out and now I feel great. Also, my hands were freezing for the first couple of hours. If I would have known how cold it was going to be I would have brought gloves.
And then I came home to discover my TV's projector bulb blew up and melted the insides of my 50" HDTV, but that's a whole nother can of worms that I shouldn't let affect my running success from this morning.
It still does though.
Anyway, let the tapering begin!
AWESOME!!! I'm so happy to hear about the 20 miler!! I saw the title of the post and I coudn't wait to open and read all about it!!
ReplyDeletethe dirndl works everytime :) next run - think of the knickers under it! :):):)
ReplyDeleteWooo frickin' who!!! I am so excited for you. Congrats. Oh, and sorry about the tv, and also you look really great, especially if that was after your run, dang!
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys. Nice to have the monkey off my back, and nice to have people happy to see me get the monkey off my back.
ReplyDeleteCathy: If you like salty sweat-crusted, squinting in the sun morons, I'm your man!