{"id":32478,"date":"2019-06-06T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=32478"},"modified":"2019-06-06T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:28:56","slug":"mockingbird-marathon-erwin-tn-blue-ridge-series-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=32478","title":{"rendered":"Mockingbird Marathon – Erwin, TN – Blue Ridge Series Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The odds were not in my favor.<\/p>\n

Wait \u2013 The Hunger Games involves a fictionalmockingjay, not a mockingbird, right?<\/p>\n

Then how about “it\u2019s a sin to kill a mockingbird?”\u00a0 To be fair, I didn\u2019t kill this mockingbird \u2013 it nearly killed me.<\/p>\n

The humidity was rough from the start, although it never quite got around to raining.<\/p>\n

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Rather thank buckets of rain, it was just buckets of overheated sweat as we went round and round 12 times.\u00a0 There were some rolling hills and one decently sized one that was a sharp hairpin turn\u2026 it hurt both going down and going up.<\/p>\n

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It hurt therefore 24 times I crossed it \u2013 12 down, 12 up.<\/p>\n

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But down and back I went.\u00a0 Sometimes shuffling, sometimes limping, sometimes walking, but always, always trying to make forward progress… or after the turnaround, back-ress to the start line to count my lap.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m exhausted.\u00a0 Mentally, physically \u2013 I\u2019m just done.\u00a0 I\u2019m not in pain or hurting anymore than the usual aches and pains of a running life\u2026 but, howdy doody, I\u2019m just struggling with pace and movement.\u00a0 I used to be able to do these multi-day series and maintain a sub-4 or close to it pace.\u00a0 But not yesterday… and definitely not today.<\/p>\n

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To make matters worse, I snapped a photo at the end and it shows all-too-clearly that I think I\u2019m losing my hair.\u00a0 To remedy this, I\u2019ve doctored the photo with a \u201cTeam Atticus Finch\u201d hat.\u00a0 Poorly rendered CGI is preferred at the moment to the harsh ravages of time and distance.<\/p>\n

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Aside from that, Mirs Lincoln, how was the play?\u00a0 The mosquitoes were out in full force.\u00a0 I feel like I was an all-you-can-suck buffet for those things and even now, hours after a shower, I still feel like they\u2019re buzzing around, landing, biting, and I itch as if some jokester had doused me with itching powder purchased from the back pages of an old Boy\u2019s Life magazine.<\/p>\n

There are still two days to go.\u00a0 I confirmed with George that both courses are supposedly 12 loops apiece for marathoners\u2026 meaning I still have 24 loops to go spread out over two states.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so tired.\u00a0 My mom asked me if I was having fun \u2013 I guess so, although at this moment it\u2019s less fun and more just running on adrenaline and stubbornity.<\/p>\n

I am a racing jackass; hear me bray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The odds were not in my favor. Wait \u2013 The Hunger Games involves a fictionalmockingjay, not a mockingbird, right? Then how about “it\u2019s a sin to kill a mockingbird?”\u00a0 To be fair, I didn\u2019t kill this mockingbird \u2013 it nearly killed me. The humidity was rough from the start, although it never quite got around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}