{"id":40858,"date":"2022-07-31T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=40858"},"modified":"2022-07-31T18:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T22:48:48","slug":"july-31-2022-jack-and-jill-downhill-marathon-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=40858","title":{"rendered":"July 31, 2022 – Jack and Jill Downhill Marathon DAY 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Ya know that scene in Apocalypse Now when Martin Sheen is in a hotel room in Saigon and going crazy and you can kind of FEEL the humidity on the screen? That’s kind of how my night in the Airbnb went. I can’t complaint too much; the host was ever-so-gracious about letting me grab a shower after today’s crappy race, even though it was LONG after checkout. Five stars.

I thought I’d feel a failure and regret NOT running today. We will never know. But I can say I regret HAVING run today. It was just a series of diminishing returns, with each mile being harder and slower than the last. I walked a lot of it in the end. My body hurt. My soles hurt. My soul’s hurt.

There’s not much different today than yesterday course-wise. Maybe it was a little cooler in segments and hotter in others? The tunnel was just as disorienting, like the infamous story involving Lee Majors as the 6 Million Dollar Man trying to run through a rotating “avalanche” effect and collapsing to the floor mid-take… over… and over… and over again.<\/p>\r\n

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I actually texted my family at mile 22. I rarely pull out my phone to talk or text whilst running. It’s hard enough snapping photos. But I was just so broken. And I was walking so it wasn’t exactly difficult to WHOOSH off a text. I basically said in 144 characters what I’ve said above, as well as saying it looked like I would be lucky to eek out a 5 hour race. \u00a0I also attached this photo, worth at least 1000 words.

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Sitting here at the Seattle Airport waiting to fly out, I was trying to get this all uploaded.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0just spilled my soda all over my laptop.<\/p>\r\n

I *think* it’s drying out but I’m scared to restart it because it may just… cease to be.<\/p>\r\n

This has been one shitty trip.<\/p>\r\n

It may be time to give up on everything.<\/p>\r\n

The horror. \u00a0The horror.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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