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elkid
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 Posted: 07/04/04 - 11:35 Post subject: Revolutionary Run 10K = painful, pukey PR
Up at 545, and I'm feeling sick to my stomach. I figure it's because I needed food. I got a bagel and a coffee at Dunkin Donuts; on the road at 630 for an 800 start in Washington Crossing State Park (PA side) because I didn't preregister. I hadn't planned on this race; just picked it up because I wanted to not only do a race, but actually RACE one. As such, I anticipate much pain and hope for a PR because I've been on fire lately. I pick up the packet, full of goodies (tons of snacks, drinks, toothpaste  , T-shirt) and sat to wait. I realize I wasn't sick to my stomach because I was hungry, but because the headache I've been fighting for four days is now (lucky me) a full blown migraine. I throw up twice before the race, but because I'd paid my race fee, am too cheap to leave, and hoped my stomach was empty I stayed to race. Still thinking PR.
Sadly this was a headphones-friendly race and my MP3 wouldn't work. I guess it's still too full of moisture from Louisiana (it refused to work on the planes when I returned, too) due to a battery switch in the rain down there. So now I'm miserable: sick, already vomiting, and now I'm forced to hear my own breathing which is awful. 
The race start is signaled by a man in colonial gear, including a wig, firing a very, very loud musket. Ow - the pain in my head is unbearable, and now this. The first two miles I'm praying I can just hold on. Mile 3 I threw up. Mile 4 I threw up ... though not really; now it's just dry heaves. Mile 5, more heaving. But my times are still holding strong, and I'm not drinking anything because I know it'll come back up. I figure it can't get worse; just gotta gut it out. Of course once you say that, it DOES get worse. Mile 6 I have a blinding, searing pain behind my eyes and I scream, grab my head, and fall to my knees. When I can see again, I pick myself up and keep going. The final .2 I'm just thinking please please please let me not puke or fall again. I don't, and overtake a few in the final 100 yards. I weave to and fro in the chute. A woman asks me if I'm OK, and then I lean over the tape heaving again. Which continued the whole ride home as well. 
So running with a horrible migraine - not too much fun. I'm still sick as I write this. All I remember is pain, being sick, being sickened by my breathing, and being amazed that I was holding on and still running relatively fast. I kept hoping for a PR despite throwing up or falling along the course that followed the Delaware River. And I managed to do just that, at my 50th road race  , busting the one I reset in April by 85 seconds. Too bad I was so sick; the weather was great, the course was beautiful. A great day to run.
Time: 1:03:01. Splits: 9:58, 10:05, 10:15, 10:18, 10:19, 10:14, 1:52 (.2), 10:10 pace. All things considered, well run and even. Though way too much work for a PR. 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 07/04/04 - 12:59 Post subject:
migraines stink!!!! sorry you had to deal with all that. i'd have been back in the car after the first wave of ralph.
a POWERBAR would have fixed ya right up 
good time in spite of it all.
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 07/04/04 - 17:14 Post subject:
Nice job Elkid!
Glad to hear you are still kicking a$$ at races!
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Posted: 07/04/04 - 21:21 Post subject:
Wow, atta girl!  Very nice job and congrats on the PR! 
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spongebob
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Posted: 07/05/04 - 01:10 Post subject:
Wow, your races are always so eventful! Congrats on the PR.
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Posted: 07/05/04 - 09:29 Post subject:
Imagine what that time would have been if you hadn't had a migrane! GEEZ! Nice job.
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Kimba90
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Posted: 07/05/04 - 14:18 Post subject:
I cannot imagine trying to run with a migraine. Kudoes to you for gutting it-and puking them--out!!
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shelee
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Posted: 07/05/04 - 20:22 Post subject:
 , I'd have been out of there.
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 08:44 Post subject:
 Great PR though! Congrats!
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pokychick
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 11:16 Post subject:
Congrats on the PR 
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 11:19 Post subject:
Toothpaste? Depends what you had on the bagel.
Terrific splits and results, despite not being at 100%. Congratulations on the PR!
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Pug
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 14:39 Post subject:
| Runner X wrote: | | Wow, your races are always so eventful! Congrats on the PR. |
I'm always impressed by your race reports.
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 15:23 Post subject:
and not too often those two get combined.
Great race report, sorry for twin Raaaalph Bothers. that sucks.
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spongebob
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 15:44 Post subject:
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elkid
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Posted: 07/06/04 - 20:26 Post subject:
Oooh look ... my own stalker! That race I fell after the finish line, so it doesn't count. So only 4. I have no grace whatsoever yet remember I was tripped, fell on a rock, and fell from pain in 3 (I don't think that last one counts - it was a reaction ), but one was legitimate where I tripped on nothing. I would kill for less drama, really I would. But as it finds me in life, it finds me in races.
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