So today was the 20 miler. The first one! After barely finishing, I soaked in some ice water and took a nap. I’m up, but I still don’t feel like doing much. So basically the run took up the whole day.
My feet hurt. My legs hurt. And I just spent ten minutes filing down two malformed toenails with a rotary trimmer made for dog claws.
In addition, I’ve lately been losing circulation in my toes at around the 4-6 mile mark. I think I may need to go up a size in shoes (which means my feet have grown a whole size in the past year). There’s a hundred bucks. Wouldn’t be so bad if I hadn’t just bought a pair about a month ago.
I sort of remember this from last year. It’s kind of fuzzy, but I’m pretty sure I stopped running altogether except for the long training runs on the weekends.
So sitting here feeling all jaded, I remember our awesome fundraiser at Global Fayre on Friday night. Chris ran a marathon on a treaadmill out in front of the store and $1 from every purchase for the day went to World Vision. We had 9 children get sponsored and brought a lot of publicity to the store. And then afterward, Chris had to go and tell us all how proud he was of us and how we’re making such a huge difference in Africa.
I wanted to slap him. As soon as I decided that all this wasn’t worth it, Chris has to get all passionate and motivate me to keep going. I guess that’s why I’m on a team and not trying to do this on my own.
So I suppose I’ll keep training, try to lose a little weight, and see how the marathon goes. I only hope I can manage to raise some more funds. I’ve only got 140 bucks in so far. Please help me out. Hop over to my fund raising page and make a contribution. Time is running out!
- Distance: 20 mi.
- Time: 3:50
- Pace: 11:30/mi.
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