I had to share this first time experience with you all.
I have been lucky this year. Danielle gets on the school bus at 6:30am which puts me at work at 7am. This means I am usually off by 4pm and running the track by 4:15pm. So I haven't had to run in the dark much. Tonight I was not so lucky. I did not begin my run until 4:45pm, so it got dark enough for the track lights to come on during my run. One more thing I must explain. No matter how hard I try to breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth I cannot do this while I run. I breathe in through the mouth and out through the mouth.
So I was running on the track tonight, just about to complete mile 3 and start mile 4 when it happened. A bug went in through my mouth with that breath. All the way in and to the tonsils at least. Way in! I am still running. I feel it in the back of my throat WIGGLING. As I see it I had two choices, stop and try to throw up or drink some water and try to make it go down. I chose the later. I took several more sips through the rest of my run to try and make sure it was flushed. The bug mile was still my second fastest mile tonight. Yet another reason to carry water on every run.
PSA- Beware of bugs if you breathe in through your mouth when you run!
Full Booty race report. The weather reports all week had stated we would have substantial winds and possible thunderstorms. We had all of that. I had lots of friends doing this race. That was great and we shared some great pre-race time together. This is also the first race we have had family (other than my youngest daughter) at. That was different! I think I should share a little pre-race. Jill with the race knew me by first name in March. I need a lot of information to ease my mind and make my plan. She was wonderful. We had been told there would be certain nutritional items on the course but what we were told was very limited. Soooo plan B was initiated.... Team SPAZ members (my sister and youngest daughter) were recruited for run stop #7 between mile 9 & 10. They were stocked with baby wipes, Kleenex, chicken broth, pickles, jelly beans and pickle juice. Now I feel better and have something to run too. Race day The Swim: 33 or so of us enter the water ...
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