Time: 10 hours 19 minutes 34 seconds
Fifty miles...I must have been out of my mind. The race started out pretty easy. It seemed like no time until I reached the first aid station around mile 5. Shortly after, the first hill showed up. I was devistated. I started running up it until I noticed everyone else had slowed to a walk. Over the next eleven miles I realized just why they were all walking up the hills. There were a lot of them. It was brutal. After I reached the 16 mile mark everything really leveled off. I was surprised too that I was really able to run as much as I did. At the turn around point, mile 25, I was still going strong. I changed shoes a few miles later, more to check for blisters and to see how many toe nails I had left. To my surprise, everything was a o.k. I pressed on from there and everything was fine until mile forty. By the time I reached mile forty, I was begining to break down. I was spending as much time walking as I did running. I reached the forty mile mark in under eight hours too. I thought "Great! I'm on pace to bust ten hours." It wasn't ment to be though. I really struggled over those last ten miles and it took me almost two and a half hours to finish from there. I don't care though! It was fun (if you are really into pain). I can now say that I completed fifty miles!
7 down, 177 to go!
:>)
