The weather today is almost Oklahoma-like. Gray clouds have been hanging around all day, with sprinkles off and on this morning while I ran. Right now it's pouring and we have a river in our back yard, which isn't so bad when we look out and see that it's feeding into the lake in the neighbor's yard.
My goal was to run 18 miles this morning. I made it to almost 15 miles, and then my body was just...done. It was like I had no strength to keep running. As I walked the remaining 2.5 miles home, I tried running a few more times, but it just wasn't happening. I ate a banana before running, but I think my downfall was in not having anything to drink until I'd already run 9 miles. I was doing two laps of the same route, and foolishly didn't take anything with me to drink on the first part. Plus I also didn't eat a gel pack until then. That came back to bite me in the butt about six miles later. My stomach felt weird - not really queasy or sick, but just kind of an odd feeling. My calves were also mildly cramping, and one of the times I started running again a cramp in my left calf stopped me cold. So the lesson learned from this one is that I need to hydrate much earlier than the nine-mile mark. Hopefully next week's long run goes much better.
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