Well, if that wasn't enough, my Faux race still had the 13.1 to run; race type transition and off I went, still totally self supported and now I was having doubts. I had hidden 2 water bottles at 6am but it was now 10:30 and I had 5 miles to run BEFORE I found them. I carried one bottle and one flask of Perpetuem and was feelin groovy. I tend to think A LOT on my runs and I was going over my course paths and areas I could ditch if I needed to, and the what ifs, and the fact that I had NO SHADE, and the fact that I was totally SOLO(again), and the fact that it was 97* and the wind was mostly at my back, and the sun was KILLER, and the road was hilly. This being the "Faux Buffalo" I could have quit after the first loop since it was just a training day and believe me i thought about that too; especially when I got a heat blister (I never get these) on my left foot and a heel blister!(I never get these either)! There are several ways to run this course; out and back McNutt, loop to Artcraft 2x McNutt or after my bottles at 5 run BACK because that's harder. Back over those hills, up and down and turn around and do it again! I figured my feet would hold up for 10 and since those 2 bottles were sizzling at 100*+ I needed to run back thru the house and get water-COLD! On my last hill I stuffed paper in my shoe over that blister and trotted on- I was gonna do this whole thing! Back at the house at 10.35 on the watch, I taped my foot, hit myself with the hose, grabbed a cold Gatorade and out the garage to my Cielo Dorado loop which is like the BSLT last 3 miles except NO SHADE-at this point it was 1 foot in front of the other and "what would (insert racer's name here) do". I thought of my 2 FIERCE competitive girl friends that were racing today as well and the answer was finish! Believe me, when the watch read 13.10 I stopped and walked a short distance to my front door and hit the hose! usually I'm back in the lake at Lubbock, chillin in the spring fed water, but that hose sure did feel good!
Big shout out to all my friends that did the actual race and finished! LauraB, NancyG,BrooksV, SalvadorA, JimW!
NadiyaM.-and my pro friend Jessica Jacobs! I was there every step of the way in spirit!
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