Usually, I write funny Daryl or Alex stories but every once in awhile I can be funny too. I was telling my co worker Kim about something that happened during my race and she said it was hilarious and needed to go on the blog. So here it is.
I was pretty nervous about my race when I got up Sunday morning. I made sure I had my watch, my food, my change of clothes and was nervously talking with my friend Becca and Kelly all the way up to the start.
Once we got to running on this beautiful trail I started to calm down. My legs felt good and it was drizzling rain which actually was keeping the temperature very nice. I found my happy pace and was enjoying the tall trees and river we were running beside. Then a little after the three mile marker faster runners were coming back. I'm used to seeing faster people turn around before me and I cheer them on BUT they should not be doing that when I'm only at 3 miles.
My mind started going crazy, I never saw a course map for this race, it just simply stated that it was a flat out and back course. Well if it was out and back there was no way those faster people had already run 13 miles and were already coming back. I started to panic, Beat The Blerch is a funny race. Most of the things that go along with it are making fun of running. Even at the start instead of the National Anthem they played a song from the Lion King. What If This Whole Thing Was A Joke?! We all signed up for a Marathon but maybe we were only doing a 10k??!! I was breathing faster now but only because I couldn't bear the thought of having flown across the country, training for this race since May, telling all my running friends I was going to run a Marathon, just to be a part of a huge JOKE!!!
So I sped up until I was running with another lady. She had headphones in but I looked over at her, with crazy eyes I'm sure, and said "Hey, do you know if this is a real marathon?" This of course made her pull out her headphones and say, "What." I explained to her about the runners already coming back and while she thought that was strange too she assured me it was a "Real Marathon."
That really didn't make me feel better so I sped up a little more and repeated my question to the next fastest runner. She said the course was an out and back but we had to do this little seven mile bit first because the out and back course wasn't 26 miles long. Oh, OK that made me feel better. My heart slowed again and I realized how silly I was being. When I got to the first turn around I went ahead and laughed at myself. At the end of the race I laughed again thinking a fake marathon might not have been so bad after all! LOL
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| Becca and I at the first Starbucks. This is a good addition to our collection of Starbucks pictures! |
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