a chicken burger without the top bun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI\u2019m still not sure what I was thinking. This isn’t stuff I eat. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I guess? \u2026Not really. It was really stupid.<\/p>\n
It kind of caught up to me. The entire run I had cramps. It was really not nice. (silly Charissa)<\/p>\n
The adrenaline rush of the crowd was awesome. My brothers and I stood in line near the front. They had every right to be there. I was just being cute.<\/p>\n
I expected my time to be like 1:10 considering my injured leg, a mountain-like hill, and not training. I have such high expectations of myself (sarcastic). To be honest, I didn’t really care about my time. I just wanted to experience the race and still be alive afterwards.<\/p>\n
I can see how running this Moonlight Run would be a blast if one was feeling awake and uninjured. Some people wore headlamps, glow jewelry, or carried flashlights. It felt sort of magical\u2026until that point in the race where I realized I was like\u2026alone\u2026and there was no one with lights. For a moonlight run, there should’ve at least been a moon light to light the way. I couldn’t find it and felt defrauded\u2026so I just kept straight and made sure I felt concrete under my feet. Seriously, it was really weird and dark and alone and strangely fun. However, it also meant I was at the back of the pack.<\/p>\n
During a race, I have never experienced that feeling where you literally just want to curl up in the grass by the road and go to sleep\u2026it was so odd. It wasn’t like\u2026\u201dOh, my legs are soooo tired\u201d\u2026it was like, \u201cI just want a nap, more than anything\u201d. After a bad night\u2019s sleep and several hours of battling it out on the courts, I guess that\u2019s legit.<\/p>\n
My left quad started acting up (i.e. getting a lot worse) and my legs started to buckle. It was actually kind of funny, or rather…I looked funny.<\/p>\n
Lesson to take home in run-on sentence format:<\/em> Don\u2019t run races without training on the day you\u2019re already doing something really active on a bad night\u2019s rest when you\u2019re really tired and have an injury while running with cramps all because you ate a stupid McChicken burger.<\/p>\nClearly, it\u2019s all the burger\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t think my brothers were really ready for this picture, but when you’re that handsome it doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n
My time was 1:14. Isn’t that cute? I should be burying my head in shame, but whatever. I did it.<\/p>\n
As soon as I sprinted to the finish line, my left quad was done and my leg could barely support my weight. I limped all over the place. So embarrassing. I kept praying I wouldn’t see anyone who knew me.<\/p>\n
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However, I\u2019m extremely proud of my family. My parents and sister did the 6k (furthest distance for them! Yay!) and two of my brothers killed it in the 10k. In the whole group, only one of us actually trained for the race (what a brilliant idea!). That\u2019s my family for you. We think we can do anything, whether or not we practice. Of course, we could do a lot better if we did. (grin) All the same, I\u2019m proud to be in a family that doesn’t see a challenge as a challenge.<\/p>\n
Now I can\u2019t wait to do it next year and actually like\u2026run beforehand.<\/p>\n
\u2026And without pre-race burgers, bleeding toes, and volleyball tournaments.<\/p>\n
Are you a \u201cfly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants\u201d person? Or are you a meticulous planner?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m alive. Honestly, it was one of the most unique runs I’ve ever done for the following reasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,74],"tags":[615,266,616,617,614,613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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