First off, thanks to all who have e-mailed and called and commented and sent me messages on Facebook!! Wow! More people read this blog than I thought!! It's funny how when you have a bad experience, everyone wants to tell you about one that they had...and some of them have been very entertaining!!
But the consensus has been from everyone "At least you didn't quit."
And THAT is what I am taking away from this mess. I didn't quit. I walked and I swore and I wanted to cry but now that I have had a few days to think...I am okay with what happened. I am still struggling to understand it but I am okay. Heck...I covered 21 km in about 2 hours and 15 minutes!! That's not bad!!
Here is what I think...not in anyway trying to make excuses, but I truly want to know why my body reacted the way it did. So here are the facts: I had an awful stomach flu just 6 days before the event. Every ounce of liquid had come out of my body. I knew this was happening and I was drinking and drinking all week to try to replace everything but maybe I just did not recover as much as I had thought? I had had a very bad headache on Friday...that put me down on the couch for the night...sometimes I get these headaches and I attribute them to hormones (the monthly kind of hormones...) Over the past year, when "that time" comes, my body is totally wacked. This was just 36 hours before having to run 21km (hard). I thought I could handle it, but obviously I did not. I am still really frustrated but it is the kind that makes me want to run a fast for me half marathon even more...thank-you Amber for the invite!! I even looked on a map to see how far GP was from here...and of course there would be the whole family thing...my spouse would say "You want to go where? For what?" But thanks anyway!!
The new plan is this....skip the local triathlon in a couple of weeks. It was looking like it was not going to happen anyway with my dad coming to town, the kid's race the day before, I am out of town the week before...blah blah...I am really not interested in doing it. I might be talked into the sprint distance...will have to talk to Justin and see. There is a half marathon distance (Timex series race..which just means, in my world, it will be on a road and not through the bush..) up north in Prince Albert on June 21st. I am going to enter and we shall see how it goes!! So I get my do-over....awesome!!
2 comments:
sounds like a plan....
Do over on June 21st. Sounds like a great plan. I definitely think all of the things you wrote about leading up to the race were huge factors. Glad you're feeling better now.
PS- GO WINGS!
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