{"id":38709,"date":"2021-10-01T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T23:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=38709"},"modified":"2021-10-01T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T23:49:05","slug":"a-dragging-before-st-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=38709","title":{"rendered":"A Dragging Before St George"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Clickety-clack. Clickety-clack. Clickety-clickety-clickety-clack.<\/em>

Ya know that feeling in your stomach that comes as the roller coaster gets pulled up the incline, the chain dragging the cars up, up, up to a peak so that gravity can send them careening this way and that? It\u2019s a hollowness and knot in one.

That\u2019s how I\u2019m feeling today as I gear up for the St George Marathon tomorrow. The call time to get the race shuttle is 3:30 AM. I\u2019ve flown into Las Vegas and driven two hours to the southwest corner of Utah. I\u2019ve got a ten-hour AirBNB for the evening because of the bus time. For the record, I am not paying by the hour.

I\u2019m nervous. And my stomach is telling me as much. It\u2019s a different kind of nerves than Surf City a few weeks back. Part of this is the difficulty of making it back to Vegas for a flight at 4 PM. There\u2019s a lot of moving parts\u2026 and I used to schedule things like this all the time in \u201cthe before times.\u201d But in the fall of 2021, I\u2019m feeling a mess.

Clickety-clack. Clickety-clack.<\/em>

Ages ago I decided I didn\u2019t like roller coasters. My brother and I played hooky from summer jobs and drove out to the Six Flags near us. We rode coasters all day and though I was barely 20, the toll it took on my body was immense. Rattled and bruised from the coasters, I realized that on top of the wear and tear on the body, I actually didn\u2019t really like the sensation of dropping down a long slope, the stomach falling out. It wasn\u2019t the weightlessness\u2026 or maybe it was? It was the feeling that it would most definitely end and I\u2019d splat into the ground like Wile E Coyote. But whereas that cartoon super genius would accordion walk out of frame and be instantly restored, no such quick fixes awaited me.

Clickety-clack. Clickety-clack.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

I went to the Dixie Convention Center to pick up my bib.\u00a0 Almost no one was masked.<\/p>\r\n

It’s like Utah has decided Covid 19 is over.<\/p>\r\n

Clickety-clickety-clickety…<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Ker-chunk<\/em>!<\/p>\r\n

The car is at the top, and the chain has released us… we plummet downward.<\/p>\r\n

What the actual fuck?<\/p>\r\n

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Clickety-clack. Clickety-clack. Clickety-clickety-clickety-clack. Ya know that feeling in your stomach that comes as the roller coaster gets pulled up the incline, the chain dragging the cars up, up, up to a peak so that gravity can send them careening this way and that? It\u2019s a hollowness and knot in one. That\u2019s how I\u2019m feeling today […]<\/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-38709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709","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=38709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38717,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38709\/revisions\/38717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}