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| temp around mile 14 :/ |
tuesday - 8 miles (5 on the easy trail) with lots of fartleks
thursday - 5 tempo hilly road miles - so hot but so good!
saturday - 19 miles on a moderate technical trail. lots of roots, hills, turns, and new things to discover. never fell THANK THE LORD!
when i started, the temp was 78 with a real feel of 86; the last half was 89 with the real feel of 97. i did not have any gels and instead used 16 fruit jelly's from trader joes. i realized 5 miles into the run that i was going to lack sodium. thankfully i brought some GU Brew tablets and added them in the water bottles my man carried for me.(he hiked in the area i was running.) around mile 16, i felt like i was going to toss my cookies. i bent over, burped, saw a snake less than a foot from me, and got a huge shot of adrenaline and immediately felt fine! ha ha!
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| eastern garter snake - exactly like the one i saw |
the run was the toughest one yet due to the heat and technical terrain. but i finished. and felt fine overall.
race is less than a month away now... what have i gotten myself into?
oh yea, something i love - a big challenge!
5 comments:
YIKES!!!!! Other than SNAKES!!! that run sounds perfect for your up coming race. It's getting hawt here too! Press on girly!
I don't think I could run on trails with those snakes. Eek!
It's been a crazy snakey year so far. Lots of copperheads out our way. Just keep watching where you step - sounds like your training is going strong, even with the snakes!
That long run sounds like good preparation for your 50K. You even survived the snake scare!
thanks ya'll! i'm hoping to somewhat conquer a fear of snakes!!
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