Good Googely-Moogely It's Hot

I rode my bike 10 miles to the start of the Redwood Park 50K today. I timed it well and got there right before the start. I ran the 50K in 7:41 or something like that, which isn't very fast, but given that my watch thermometer had the highest reading (105.5 degrees!) I have ever seen outside of that time I dunked it in a hot spring, I'm happy with it. It was so hot that a lady in front of me sat down due to a cramp, and then while I was digging an electrolyte pill out of my pack for her, she said "I'm going to faint," at which point she fell back, her eyes rolled back, she convulsed a little, and had these horribly raspy breaths, so I held her head up and sprayed some water on her. She came to pretty quick and her friends came along, so they took care of her and I kept going. After finishing I was planning on riding home, but there was all sorts of chafing going on in the nether-regions, so I hung out till the race was all over and got a ride home. Good times.

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  1. Good job out there - it was SUPER hot! Hope that I didn't force you to carry home too much stuff at the end of the day - I just hate to see that stuff go to waste!

    Thanks again for coming out - always GREAT to see you, and it was nice to have some time to chat after your run, too.

    Sarah (PCTR)

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  2. hmm there are some interesting things going on at Berkley..I think I applied to the wrong grad school!

    http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/the-economics-of-clean-water-a-guest-post/


    *LOL*

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