Wayne and I planned a 17.5 mile run for today...from home to Vivian Park and back. Larry and Kevin started with us but ran shorter. We had a couple of surprises. First, it turns out it's 18 miles, not 17.5. The bigger surprise was that there was no water (fountain still capped) at Nunns Park or Vivian Park, just at Timpanogos Park. We took our gels anyway (before we discovered there was no water). It was sure nice to finally get a drink back at Timpanogos park. I felt tired this whole run. I think it was a combination of three factors: 1) a 10 mile run on Friday, 2) poor nutrition on Friday, 3) church cleaning assignment before run on Saturday...pushed heavy vacuum around for 45 minutes...worked up a pretty good sweat and burned considerable energy. The end result was that I slowly ran out of gas until I was completely empty. I felt it coming during most of the run but tried to tough it out. I sent Wayne ahead with 3 miles to go and asked him to drive back and pick me up. I struggled and made it to 16.5 miles, but that was it. I was feeling lightheaded and my legs felt like lead. I was sure glad to see Wayne's Jeep. When I got home I was chilled and couldn't seem to get warm. I ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich, showered, got dressed, then got into bed and slept for a couple of hours. I made myself some French toast when I got up and recovered pretty quickly after that.
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