fitnatalie
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My 10K in May was great, I finished in the upper half of my age group. I didn't stick out as being flabby and out of shape. Of course that 10K had 8,000 runners in it.
Fast forward to 3 months later, Saturday July 14. I bet you have the impression that Kansas is a flat state, it is, except the town I ran my 10K in. I used to live there about 13 years ago and the hills had vanished from my mind (I didn't run back then) I haven't run hills like that since I ran cross country in the late 70's in High School.
There were about 70 of us. They all seemed to be hard core runners. They had on their cute very short running shorts with tank tops. I had on my red bike shorts and a tee shirt from a previous run. I was the only one in bike shorts. If I didn't wear the bike shorts I am afraid my thighs would rub together too much and cause chaffing. My legs are not fat, they are just big. Some runners have big legs, some have sticks.
After the first mile (BTW no calling out mile splits at each mile, only mile 3 and mile 5) I got a hard cramp in my stomach (after a huge hill). At the mile point people began to kick it into high gear, and I ate everyones dust. I had no one to pace. I was alone. My Walkman did not pick up my usual Wichita stations. When I could get music, it sucked.
The hills got the best of me, and I had to walk a few times.
I did not beat my previous time of 58:00 I crossed the finish line at 62:00 this time. A nine year old girl crossed the finish line right before me. I came in 10th to last place.
As I crossed the finish line a woman with a medal in her hand said "How old are you?" "38", I said. "Oh" she said "no medal for you." And I am thinking to myself, I just ran 6.2 miles and you are standing there all clean, pretty, and over weight and out of shape, and you just said that to me?" "B_T_H!" Did she think I was in the 40+ age group?
Well atleast I got a nice tee-shirt. I get home and my beautiful boys (ages 6 and 8)had made a banner that said "Mom is the Number 1 Runner". Took a shower, put on the new shirt, only to have it tear on a nail sticking out of a chair.
Fast forward to 3 months later, Saturday July 14. I bet you have the impression that Kansas is a flat state, it is, except the town I ran my 10K in. I used to live there about 13 years ago and the hills had vanished from my mind (I didn't run back then) I haven't run hills like that since I ran cross country in the late 70's in High School.
There were about 70 of us. They all seemed to be hard core runners. They had on their cute very short running shorts with tank tops. I had on my red bike shorts and a tee shirt from a previous run. I was the only one in bike shorts. If I didn't wear the bike shorts I am afraid my thighs would rub together too much and cause chaffing. My legs are not fat, they are just big. Some runners have big legs, some have sticks.
After the first mile (BTW no calling out mile splits at each mile, only mile 3 and mile 5) I got a hard cramp in my stomach (after a huge hill). At the mile point people began to kick it into high gear, and I ate everyones dust. I had no one to pace. I was alone. My Walkman did not pick up my usual Wichita stations. When I could get music, it sucked.
The hills got the best of me, and I had to walk a few times.
I did not beat my previous time of 58:00 I crossed the finish line at 62:00 this time. A nine year old girl crossed the finish line right before me. I came in 10th to last place.
As I crossed the finish line a woman with a medal in her hand said "How old are you?" "38", I said. "Oh" she said "no medal for you." And I am thinking to myself, I just ran 6.2 miles and you are standing there all clean, pretty, and over weight and out of shape, and you just said that to me?" "B_T_H!" Did she think I was in the 40+ age group?
Well atleast I got a nice tee-shirt. I get home and my beautiful boys (ages 6 and 8)had made a banner that said "Mom is the Number 1 Runner". Took a shower, put on the new shirt, only to have it tear on a nail sticking out of a chair.
Thanks for the story.