Gutiesc’s BodyBlog

I was a beast today. This morning, I went running because of PT. About 2.55 miles in 21 minutes. I was pacing myself because I knew I had a deadly run in the afternoon. I joined the cross country team on base and the deaded 5K UPHILL course was going down today. I consider myself a good runner but I CANNOT do uphill. I NEVER stop running unless it’s uphill. It’s my kryptonite. Well, today I geared up and went to the meet. Of course, not a lot of people showed up. I had never been on this trail before but in the whispers around me, I could hear even the best runners already complaining about icing their legs tonight. I just drowned out that noise and start playing my favorite IPod playlist.

 The horn goes off….

I’m pacing myself like a mother! About 9 min mile and people are flying by me. Usually this ticks me off because I have runners envy but not this time… Little hills were coming at me for about a mile (on extremely loose gravel…this is just stupid. If you are a runner, you know this is extremely dangerous).

2 mile mark…all down hill baby! But not the good kind. It was the "Holy shit, I better keep running or I’m going to face plant into this rock here" down hill.

2 1/4 mile mark… I look up and hill up hill. I BLAST my IPod and keep my pace. I’m passing people left and right. This hill is about a 30 - 40 % incline uphill for 3/4 of a mile! by the half mile my quads feel like they are self destructing. Literally tearing off my bones, acid being poured on them at a steady state. But something inside me just WOULD NOT let me stop. Trust me, I tried but my body was like "Oh F*** no we ain’t going to prolong this torture!"…so I just kept on going.

Next thing I know, theres the light at the end of the woods…THE FINISH LINE!!!! 26 mins! for a 3.2 mile race.

As I pass through the high fives, I politely proceed to some near by bushes to puke my guts out (it’s cool, it’s nothing but dry heaves which to me is even worse).

 Main point: I did a little more than a 5K in 26 minutes (my last record for a regular 5K is 27 mins) and it’s the first time in my life that I did not walk on an uphill…the longest uphill of my life and I hope not the last!  

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