Emergency Evacuation
I'm running the Torchlight 5K tonight. It seemed like fun when I signed up. Now I'm thinking not so much.
I got a free singlet for signing up in-store at The Running Room. I got number 2005. The course goes through downtown Minneapolis. And it's part of Aquatennial, so there's a parade happening right after the race. All very cool.
Except that it's Africa hot outside right now. 91° (feels like 96°) and I highly doubt it's gonna cool off appreciably in the next 2.5 hours.
And I have to eat something, but I worry that it's gonna want out (if you know what I mean) in the middle of the race. But I can't not eat. Don't want to be starving at the end of the race. I didn't eat much. A ham/egg/cheese sandwich and an orange. I feel like I should have some coffee to flush things out. I wanna make sure I go before I leave the house.
In case I needed incentive to continue running in the mornings when I get up, this is it. I always take care of business in the morning. I can run on a mostly empty stomach. And food and facilities are waiting for me when I get home.
I just read a looooong thread in the Cool Running forums about people with colon problems and to my dismay I discovered that a helluva lot of runners routinely pop Immodium before their long runs. I didn't need to know shit like that. Heh. Bad choice of words.
Seriously, this is really making me nervous. *clench*
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UPDATE: The problem may have *ahem* passed.
Um, SINGLET? What, no pictures? Get to it, sistercakes!
Hope it went well!
Hey Erica, it's Alena, Laura's friend. I thought I saw you at the race last night, but I didn't know if it was you or your lookalike that seems to be roaming through town. I am going to read your site now via my LJ, Laura said you wouldn't care...
So how did you end up doing in the race?
Technical difficulties, I seem to be having...
That was me, not my doppelganger. Or maybe the doppelganger was there, too.
Were you running? Or waiting for the parade? Or randomly walking downtown only to be beset upon by thousands of sweaty huffing people?
It went fine. It was ridiculously hot, but the route through downtown was nice. I got passed by a lot of people in the beginning, but I passed a lot of people who were walking by the end.
Didn't stick around for the post-race festivities at the Metrodome. A free beer was the last thing I wanted. I just grabbed some fruit and a PowerAde and got on the train to go back over to Hennepin for the parade.
I ran... though I was with some friends that go a bit slower than me so, ... eh. I am glad I am running again today.
I liked the free burrito cups. Mmmm.
Good work on passing the walking fools! Did you happen to notice that the parade was a total eye-candy/midsummer mating fest? There were tons of honeys all dolled up with highlights AND makeup. Damn.
I totally wanted a burrito cup but I couldn't bear to stand in line. I just wanted to get away from the crush of humanity.
Yeah, all the pretty people were out. I've never seen so many people checking themselves out. Did you see the Runaway Brides? Pfffft. Whatever.
I did, however, see a lot of lesbians on the train I took back across downtown. Hello, ladies!
I didn't know if they were:
a) getting married
b) getting married to each other, or
c) making fun of that chick who faked her own kidnapping
I personally like c.
There were lots of bad hair lesbos, that I saw. No young, cute ones....
Yeah, the ones I saw were thirties, sporty types. Decent haircuts, all. I wasn't even positive about them until they mentioned Pride.
I also saw a guy from work. He's the night janitor and doesn't talk ever. He's also super hairy, and he was... minimally dressed for the run. But I asked him yesterday if he was there because I thought I saw him and he talked and talked (and talked and talked) about it.