{"id":32505,"date":"2019-06-07T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=32505"},"modified":"2019-06-07T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:43:39","slug":"venus-fly-trap-marathon-hendersonville-nc-blue-ridge-series-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=32505","title":{"rendered":"Venus Fly Trap Marathon – Hendersonville, NC – Blue Ridge Series Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

By mile 10, I was more prune than man, the steady drenching rain soaking me through and through.<\/p>\n

By the teens, I wondered if my prune hands would make my fingerprints more or less identifiable.\u00a0 I decided since I couldn’t recall that being a plot point on CSI it probably didn’t matter.<\/p>\n

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By mile 20, I flashed onto my seventh grade science book and wondered if I could die from cytolsis, the process whereby excess water causes the cell to burst and explode.\u00a0 I know over-hydration can be fatal… but that’s if one drinks too much water, right?\u00a0 Or is that the same thing as my cells absorbing all this water pelting me for miles upon miles?\u00a0 Again, I couldn’t recall that being a plot point on CSI but I do think it could make a killer faux-science-y killing MO for a detective novel.<\/p>\n

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I stopped taking photos pretty early on as the rain came down.\u00a0 But here are some shots of the day because that’s what I do on these posts when I’m delirious and unable to think much of anything besides the all-too-applicable running mantra: “run, eat, sleep, repeat.”<\/p>\n

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One quick note — my body is so tired that I don’t think it knows how to process the pain receptors… that or they shorted out in the water logged mileage.\u00a0 Either way, I’m fervently a proponent of the shock and awe self-health care.\u00a0 By running these crazy distances, it seems to purge toxins and germs and I’ve very often been able to burn out a cold or an illness on a race course.\u00a0 Maybe the same thing is happening with the hip and leg issues of the past few months.\u00a0 We’ll see when I stop running for a bit… which apparently should be in 2044.<\/p>\n

As an aside, Kate asked me as she handed me my medal if I wanted the day’s venus fly trap trivia.\u00a0 I thought she knew me better than that.\u00a0 OF COURSE I wanted the venus fly trap trivia!\u00a0 The reason she and George named today’s marathon after the VFT is because the only place in the world with a native population is all within the coastal bogs and swamps near Wilmington, NC.<\/em><\/p>\n

Trivia!<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomorrow — one last time… or, well, 12 last times as it’s supposedly a 12 loop course again.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By mile 10, I was more prune than man, the steady drenching rain soaking me through and through. By the teens, I wondered if my prune hands would make my fingerprints more or less identifiable.\u00a0 I decided since I couldn’t recall that being a plot point on CSI it probably didn’t matter. By mile 20, […]<\/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-32505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505","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=32505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}