My watch showed my toilet time as right at 10 minutes... so in actuality I did do it under 3...
Starting - Not long after starting (within first few minutes) I realized that I forgot to use my inhaler... so I hauled it out and took a few puffs right in the beginning...
Mile one... showed a difference of three minutes between my watch and the clock...NTL, I had a 10min pace
Shortly after mile one or two, Amy caught up to me... we hung out for just a tad... I really needed to pee
I was starting to warm-up and thought that okay at mile 3 I'm stopping to pee and I'll take my long-sleeve off after the potty (I probably could've pushed waiting to pee, but I really wanted the shirt off and didn't want to have to deal with it in the porta-potty) B/t waiting and peeing that was almost 10 minutes....I got "cold"...after peeing I took off my shirt before I had warmed up again.. bad move b/c then my arms stayed cold the remainder of the race...
Mile 4... WORK CALLS!!!! WTF!!! To ask me a question that I answered YESTERDAY!!!! Okay, so actually they texted, but it's harder for me to text than talk while "running"...
After the work call I notice that I'm starting to feel my periformis tightening up.. and I'm not even to mile five... so I stretch... I also took the time to get my iPod out as that the crowds are thinning and I'm getting bored... Also, i thought I'd take the opportunit to use the bridge rails to stretch while getting my msic together...
Miles 5 through 9 were uneventful...
though I was jealous when the kids carrying their snowbaords to head up the mtn crossed the route in front of me...(tomorrow is the last day the chairs are running at Brighton :( )
At mile 9 I realize that I do believe I'm a little ahead of last Sundays pace, and I feel good... then all of a sudden I hit a wall...My heading felt like it was compressing. I kept reaching on top of my head thinking my glass were there... but it was just tension in my head :(
I was passed by a race walker tha I realized was on eof the ladies from the ski clinic... caught up to her for a short chat...
I pushed as much as I could through mile 10, then walked most of 11... the last mile I tried to run...
I did tend to spit ALOT more... I was coughing up these huge clumps...I think I might have lost a lung somewhere along the way... I am having a difficult time breathing... :(
The last few yards I sprinted... and it felt good...

Not get sick immediately before.
NOt host a r-ball tourney the week of...

Walked through, grabbed a banana and choc milk, found Amy, tried calling hubby, stretched a little, met up with Amy's clan at fountain to say high, then high-tailed it to son's karate belt testing. (to be followed by work until 9pm)


Sinus infection, chest congestion, headachiness, work stress of tourney this week, work calling during race, and of course, lack of training...