18 MILES!!

After Chloe's birthday party I needed to get my 18 mile run in. And I'm not gonna lie I was not looking forward to it. TJ drove me up the canyon 16 miles until we ran out of road. It was about 7:15 pm and 18 miles was going to take me at least 3 hours. That was my goal anyway. So he drops me off and starts to drive away. It was crazy because I was so far from home and all alone without a phone and I knew that the only way for me to get home would be to run there. I also knew that it would eventually get dark on me before I got home but TJ told me at least I would make it out of the canyon before it did get dark and that the rest of the run would be lit by street lights. So I wasn't too worried and I started my long journey. And it might sound crazy but the first 11 miles went really really good and I felt awesome. However it started to get stormy and dark early because of the clouds and I was still in the canyon. I stopped at the Hobble Creek golf course to go to the bathroom and picked up my waterbottle that I had dropped on the way up. I started to run on the trail instead of the street and it was sooo dark and I was having trouble seeing. I was alone in the dark in the woods and I was getting paranoid about animals and snakes. Which I guess was a good motivator because I kept a good pace. Then I saw TJ in the car pull over to me and it was so good to see him. He had gotten worried because at home it was super windy and raining and he thought I would be huddled under a bush waiting for him. He had been driving around for 45 min looking for me. I was ok. I had been running for 2 hours and had 7 more miles to go and so he waved good bye and I started again. At mile 14 I got tired and was frustrated because I knew I would have to add on miles around my neighborhood to make it 18 and that's hard to do once you are tired and so close to home. My legs were tired and I was so done. I did what I could but stopped at 17.5 miles. I couldn't force myself to add a half a mile around the block. I felt like I couldn't even take step. Plus it was 10:15 and I just wanted to go to bed. It was not as hard as I thought it would be but just as hard as I expected if that makes sense. I ran it in 3 hours.

I registered for the Top Of Utah marathon today...crazy to think I need to add on 8 more miles to that 18. It will definitely be a challenge and I know that after I will never run another full marathon again.

I'm also really sad today because my peach tree THAT I LOVE SO MUCH that this was the first year to get TONS of peaches that I would actually be able to freeze and can snapped in the windstorm the other night. The main trunk of the tree snapped and I'm not sure the rest of the tree will survive. Even if it did the majority of the fruit was on the branches that broke.

I'm depressed.