So I was alone, which meant motivation was WAAAAAAY harder than when I did it with my brother or when I run with a friend during the week. It was certainly a mental game but it also became WAY more of a phsyical game than I had experienced with the Riverbank Run in May.
You may remember that I wrote last week about my hamstring being in pain and cramping up. Well, cramping up it did. I had to stop once to stretch it and massage the muscles. Then, and this is HORRIFYING.....I felt like I had to go to the bathroom....#2, yep, I'll just call it #2 so that it doesn't gross anyone out. This has happened once before when Jettie and I went for a run together. Anyhow, I was determined to not let it affect the race so I stopped to compose myself and pray, yes, literally pray, that God would make the #2 stop and that I could just keep going. Well, turns out I tried sooooo hard to keep it from happening that I peed a little....yep, I peed a little, in my pants. ONE OF THE SCARIEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE. I was able to stop it immediately so it's not like anyone else knew but I KNEW! Thankfully, it all subsided and I fell into my rhythm. Oh goodness, quite an adventure.
SO, my unofficial end time was 26:23 which is 22 seconds faster than my Riverbank time. I'll take it. I didn't train and I still got a workout in and the thrill of the race was still super motivating.
Kristen dropped me off at the race but she couldn't pick me up so I decided it'd be a "cool down" to walk 3 miles home. Um, yeah, my legs were dead tired the entire way. I did some mobile stretching along the way, unplugged my ear phones, felt the breeze and just thanked God for the human body and for nature.
I'm exhausted now but I'm glad I did it!
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