One of my coworkers was off for two weeks. Before she left I explained to her my anxiety about the 21 miles I am supposed to run this upcoming weekend. By myself. With no support. I've never run that far alone before. I've always run with a group and idle chatter to keep my mind off the distance. And aid stations to refill my water bottles and to have a bite to eat at. Not so this impending weekend. She said she had an unused Camelbak she would lend me.I showed up to work and thought surely she wouldn't have remembered to bring it in, the first day back from her two week vacation. There it was, sitting on my office chair. I was touched that she remembered how much I needed it. That she thought of me.
Then I thought "shit: now I actually have no excuses". Michael even gave me another couple of gels the other day because he knew my store is almost depleted. Blah. I'm even charging up my Shuffle as I write this. All systems go. Yikes.
In other news: Whistler was great. We kind of crashed once we got up there and ate since we were pretty tired after our twenty mile run. The next day we went for an excellent breakfast and then did the Peak 2 Peak and hiked around at the top of Whistler and Blackcomb a bit. We were way more prepared than we were last time we went up the mountain when we arrived at the top in our shorts and t-shirts (Michael was wearing sandals) and there was still loads of snow up there and people were snowboarding. I thought I was going to die of hypothermia.
It wasn't quite as eventful this time, but I did see two black bears as we were on the gondola and the chair lifts on the way down. I've never seen bears in the wild before so I was both ecstatic to finally see one and also terrified and happy to be in a chair lift moving away from the aforementioned cuddly terrors.
Bears are scary.
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Bears are awesome, chair lifts are scary. Running 20 miles.... that just seems so far. How long does it take you?
20 miles IS far. It's actually TOO far by about 5 or 6 miles.
Sunday's 20 miler took me about 2 hours and 55 minutes, so we'll see how much longer it takes me this weekend when I don't get to run with others to encourage and pander to me. :)
When I was a kid we'd do the 20 mile walk for the March of Dimes or something like that and it would take us all day. Now days I do a mile in just under 15 minutes.... still that's just too long.
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