I had it in my head that it was maxing out offering a half-marathon challenge, which is great and all but I really prefer the marathon distance because, well, I’m a mess of a man (made all the more apparent here in a few).<\/p>\n
So I printed out my virtual bib with its mock ruler design and “we’re responsibly running socially distant but distantly running” vibe. Had my Mom snap a photo of me with a tape measure showing me 6 feet away and prepped for the run.<\/p>\n
It was dark and dreary and drizzly at 6 AM but I was up and, well, I had already slapped text stickers on my photo above committing to the day. So I ran.<\/p>\n I ran out to Disney Springs, which is a slightly different route than I normally do because I thought I should try and make this one special. Mickey had some advice for me at the property’s edge:<\/p>\n And a guard had some bad news when I got across a pedestrian walkway flyover bridge:<\/p>\n I wound up kinda doing a route by wandering around but finished up with a middling 1:49:33.\u00a0 It’s good, it’s fine, I didn’t really enjoy it as my mind was adrift on the stormy choppy waters of depression and all things negative thanks to Covid-19.\u00a0 I’m scared for the future and I’m not really sure what I’m doing and all that is taking a toll.\u00a0 But I ran the half, right?\u00a0 Good for me, right?<\/p>\n As I drip perspiration sitting on my back patio, slurping a half bottle of Powerade Zero, I pull out my phone and log in to record my virtual results.\u00a0 It’s one of those websites that doesn’t seem to render correctly on my phone — not sure if it’s a desktop site instead of their mobile site or if it’s just my wonky phone.\u00a0 I have friends who would tell me it serves me right for getting a Samsung… but I still say it’s a better camera than on the iPhone.\u00a0 Anyhoo, because the columns aren’t quite rendering and the input is half off the screen even if I rotate my phone to landscape as opposed to portrait, I just do my best to submit the time.\u00a0 Eventually I realize it has gone through and I think, “well, that’s that.”<\/p>\n But then I see it’s showing me as # 1 in the results, over a lot of other people.\u00a0 Which is plausible I suppose but certainly not probable.\u00a0 And so when I click for details, I see they have me with a world record setting *marathon* time of 1:49:33, crushing Eliud Kipchoge’s recent sub-2 herculean accomplishment.\u00a0 Apparently, I did sign up for a marathon distance for this virtual event but had… forgotten?… blocked it out?… confused it with another virtual run that only offered a half distance<\/a>?\u00a0 Who can say?\u00a0 But I do know I’ve sent a couple of emails to the folks trying to remedy this — honest, people, it wasn’t my intention to claim I had run a marathon in an hour and fifty minutes.<\/p>\n I’m just feeling dumb and foolish and embarrassed and oddly ashamed that I screwed this up.\u00a0 And I’m really sorry to these folks:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_163225.jpg\")
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