Well this was supposed to be the big one - 20 miles. We were on vacation in Hotlanta, and I picked out a fabulous trail for running - the Silver Comet. It's a rails to trails project. The multi-use path starts in a suburb north of Atlanta and apparently runs some 90 miles to the Alabama border. That's pretty awesome. Matt, his brother, and his brother in law woke up super early with me, drove me the start, and arranged to meet me 20 miles later. Unfortunately my foot had other plans.
It started bothering me about mile 4, so I decided to tape it for support since I had a lot of miles to go. I figured since it hurt when I raised my big toe, I should try to keep my big toe from raising too much. This helped for awhile, and I added more tape around mile 9 or 10. But by mile 11 or 12, it was really starting to bother me. It kept getting sharper and more painful. I tried taking the tape off, but it didn't help. Finally at mile 14 I asked Matt to come pick me up early - I completed about 14.5 miles, at least one of them walking.
What really disappointed me is that otherwise I felt like 20 miles would have been easy. I wasn't really even tired. Perhaps it's because of my multiple bathroom stops and stops to tape up. But my legs felt pretty dang good. Too bad about my foot.
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