The title of today's run was: Steve's Pony Kind of the regular process up at 4 a.m and over to the church on Bluff to catch the shuttle up. It only went out 19.3 miles so we ran up a little at the start and then turned around to make it a full 20. There was a big group around 3 full 15 passenger vans. Steve, Aaron, Logan, and I started the run together. Once we turned back around and was heading for town Aaron started into a faster pace. I had no plans for the run- no set warm up or tempo. I just wanted to get in the mileage. But I decided to kind of head out with him. Steve and Logan stayed back a little to continue to warm up and tempo the last 9 miles. Aaron and I didn't even get to Veyo (3 miles into it) and my head was spinning. It felt too hot. I was really getting ready for a big crash. I told him I was feeling like crap and let him go. Then started to wonder how I was going to get back to my car. As I got to the base of Veyo hill I remembered I'd grabbed a little bag of Sweetish Fish (like 15-25 of them). I didn't have a gu to bring and this was the only thing in my pantry I could find at 4 a.m that looked like it would kind of work like Gu. I felt super hungry and burnt out so I started to eat them up the hill. Hit that mile in like 8:15 and finished off my fish. They started working really fast. The taste of sugar alone started to help refuel me. From that point on up through Dameron I started to kind of feel better and get my barrings back. Then just ran whatever back to the car. Noting super fast. Somewhere around 5:45 pace for the last 10 miles. Ended the run with a 6:23 avg. Glad that run was over and than it wasn't race day... kind of a flashback of last years STGM. Hoping things go better up there this year.
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