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I broke that promise at the start when I let my excitement ‘overrun’ my common sense and I ran the first 5km’s like I was going to stop after the 6th. It was right around the 13km mark that I realised just how little I’d have left in the tank toward the end of the race. Soon after that, the temp hit 30°C and I realised I should have carried hydration... another tough lesson. At the 15km mark, I made the mistake of looking back, where I saw a sixty-something-year-old lady closing the gap. The painfully slow chase, which I’d surrendered to the moment I saw her, ended after the longest 2km of my life. I clapped for her and called her an inspiration and as she passed, and she very matter-of-factly told me to “shut up and keep running”, haha. And so, I did, until around the 20km mark, where the run became an intermittent walk/run, walk/run. During the last 5km, I clapped for another 10-or-so people of all shapes and sizes, thinking of that old fable about the tortoise and the hare. I persisted to the finish line and crossed with the bravest face I could muster, which didn’t appear to convince the commentator, who politely pointed out that I had “looked a lot better for wear at the start.” Haha. It’s true, I was runnin’on empty, but at least I was high on dopamine! Now it’s back to the drawing board to see if I can work out a plan to make the distance again, on a different trail, with better restraint and more form, and perhaps somewhere way down the track I might even increase the distance.
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