I flew down to Little Rock, Arkansas to attempt to run the Full Moon 50 K on Saturday night. It was in the 90s at 7 pm when we started. The heat really didn't bother me too much, but the trail was quite hilly. As usual, I was quickly in last place. They had a time limit of midnight at the turnaround. Unfortunately I was just a couple of minutes too slow. So they stopped me and I had to settle for only 25 K. Since I was only a couple of minutes over, they may have let me slide, but I was so tired and moving so slowly at that point that we all knew I would not have made the next time limit of 2 pm at the 25 K turnaround point. That would have only given me 2 hours to run 8 miles. If I had felt it was possible I may have asked them to let me continue, but it was probably wise to stop.
I really didn't feel too badly about it, even though of course I was disappointed. I knew the heat would be a factor, plus I also know I'm getting pretty slow. I plan to be more conscientious in my training now. I'm going to run the Central Asian Challenge, with Z Adventures in October. It's a 5 day series of 5 marathons in 5 countries.
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
I really do want to be able to finish them all, but if I don't, at least it will be fascinating to visit those countries.
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