Saturday, February 26, 2011

Irony at "Run with the Wind 25k"

Today was a busy day. This morning I headed down to Sarcoxie for the Run with the Wind 25k. The course takes you from Sarcoxie HS to Carthage HS and this would be my very first 25k. The race started @ 9:00 am and I also had tickets to the MSU Bears game @ 12:00. So, I wanted to park my car at the finish in Carthage and get a ride back to the start in Sarcoxie so I could leave as soon as I finished the race. Found a ride no problem, only to find out that when I returned to Sarcoxie my freshly charged Ipod is mysteriously dead. Ah, "no problem" I say, there is a charger in the car....oh wait it's in Carthage! Ok, so not really a Shakespearean tragedy, but I did manage to survive. However, I really could have used some music around mile 12 when my legs decided to stop picking themselves up off the pavement and felt like I was lifting cinder blocks with my quads on each step. This is what I get for running a race at a longer distance than I need too, but I kinda had that 10 foot tall and bullet proof feeling going into the race. Thank you rolling hills and very little flat ground for bringing me back down to reality. I obvisouly managed to PR since it was my first ever 25k in 1:53:08. After finishing the race I managed to make it to the Bears game by halftime, but it was well worth it to see them win their first MVC Championship ever. Record crowd of 11,000 + and in 10 years of Bears basketball I have never seen an atmosphere like that except for when Jackie was playing. Go Bears! and Go Aimee! who will be competing in her dream Princess 1/2 Marathon tomorrow in sunny Florida. Good Luck sweetheart, I love you.

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