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7/18/10

I said... BRRRR, It's cold in here!

Saturday was my first 12 mile run. The milage is starting to get bigger/longer. It was a really good run though. Sarah and I ran almost all of it together, and Donny ran the first half of it with us too. My pace and breathing was really regular. Towards the end my legs felt really heavy and I had to try really hard to keep myself going, but I think that was more mental than anything else. While most people get a rush toward the end (like Sarah) and go faster, I struggle towards the end because my body realizes it is almost time to stop and starts trying to stop.

Sarah took off about 2 miles from the finish and I fell behind, so I was super surprised to find her walking about half a mile from the finish. When I realized that she was helping a fellow teammate who was having trouble I stopped and helped too. Our mentor ran ahead to get her car and drive our teammate the rest of the way back. While I kept wanting to keep running and finish, I realized that this moment was what team in training was really about. It is about being there for each other and working together as a team. After we got our teammate into our mentor's car, Sarah and I took off at a fast pace for the last quarter of a mile. It felt good at the end to just race like that.

On the way home I swung by Walmart to pick up a bag of ice for my first ice bath. That's right, you read me right, I said ice bath. I got out my laundry basket, filled it with cold water and then poured in the bag of ice and then myself. I called my sister first to have someone take my mind off how cold I was, but she didn't answer. After a few other calls I get a hold of my mother who is with my sister. Instead of getting support and a nice conversation through the serious cold, I got screamed at. I had called to get talked through it and instead they spent the whole time trying to talk me out of it. I was very frustrated. But in the end, the ice bath really helped because normally I am really sore the next morning, but I wasn't really sore at all this morning.

I am really proud of yesterday's run and I know I can conquer this marathon. I am starting to get super excited. We will see what I am saying after the 20 mile run. Keep following along and telling others! Please continue helping me raise money to fight blood cancers.

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