{"id":152,"date":"2007-07-04T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-01-22T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:43:18","slug":"heat-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/07\/04\/heat-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I ran the Butte-to-Butte<\/a> 10K again this year. I was a little anxious, because I really didn’t train as well as I had last year. But I really wanted to beat my previous time. I had done a 4+ mile run, the last mile uphill, a week or so ago and I felt good at that point. But I hadn’t run 6.2 miles since last year!<\/p>\n

It was a lot hotter this year, too… whew!<\/p>\n

But… my bib number was 7. How lucky is that? It’s my lucky year, after all, a 7lb-7oz baby born in 1977!<\/p>\n

The race felt tougher, some combination of being less trained, hotter, and pushing myself a lot harder. But I did it – my finish time was 1:04:33. That’s a 10.4 minute pace, a whole minute per mile faster than last year! Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n

Note to self: don’t try to go out to breakfast on race day. I had to wait what felt like several hours for my egg-topped-bagel breakfast and as BN can tell you, I’m quite the cranky camper when I’m starving!<\/p>\n

I felt a little better after I ate, but after my shower all I could do for the rest of the day was lie helplessly on the couch. I was so, so, tired! I’ve never felt so exhausted. It was like a concentrated exhaustion, different from how I felt after 52 hours of being in-the-air-on-the-road in transit to Nepal. Different from how I felt after hiking in the High Sierras all day with BN. My mind wasn’t exhausted, but my body felt like it didn’t want to move.<\/p>\n

I did manage to make buffalo burgers with sweet potato ‘fries’ for our 4th of July dinner. They turned out yummy!<\/p>\n

After that we drove up a back road and walked a little ways (fortified by red meat) to a somewhat tree-blocked but fairly good view of South Eugene. Everybody and their brother was setting off fireworks, all over town, many seemed larger than legal. Also the minor-league baseball stadium had a medium-sized show that we could see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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