Sunday, April 09, 2006
RUN4THE KIDS
What an amazing Day! Couldn't sleep all night as I still wasn't feeling great so got up at 5am and did the washing. Train left at 7am and it was so exciting as all the passengers seemed to be doing the run and chatted excitedly. When I got there had to cue for toilets, find my sister and dump the bag. This meant we just got into the starting area before the start. We moved forward a bit and once through the finish line started to tun. The on ramp to the bridge looked tough but we actually had no problem. Running over the bridge was exhilirating and I felt like a champion. The run down was even better. I had no trouble running more than usual.Legs didn't hurt, breathing was fine. We paced ourselves setting people ahead as targets and would run to catch them. Often they would then pass us and then we would pass them etc. Made it interesting. Approaching the tunnel I started to get pains in my stomach/ sternum area. I figured (how dumb was I that maybe they were from my cold and were really in my lungs..) So I held myself while running. Going into the tunnel was thrilling. On teh way we met two men taht we had joked with when we did the run at the tan. They remembered us as the girls who kept running past them. We overtook them. Then running up the last hill out of the tunnel they ran up to us. "Jesus" I said and started toto run, laughing an dcalling out " I can't run up this hill don't make me." He replied "Yes you can, go for it." So I did. We left the tunnel and our time was 1hr 14mins. YAHOO!!! and we had been worried we wouldn't get through in 2 hrs!! This meant we would finish the whole thing in under 2 hrs. We were stoked. Then as we came up the next bit the pain incresaed and went into my back. It was so bad apparently I went ghost white and started to collapse. I stopped and lent on a tree with my sister worrying I was having a heart attack. I knew it wasn't that but the pain was overwhelming. A volunteer came up and asked me should he get someone to come get me. I said no I would not give up yet as there were more helpers along the way. We started walking and the best I could do was a slow walk for 10 minutes. I had another fainting spell and was close to tears thinking I wouldn't be able to finish when all we had left was 5kms of relatively flat road to go. We had done all the hard bits we were worried about!! Luckily the pain ebbed a bit and we just walked slowly. When we saw the finish I said " NO way am I not running through that line so off we went. Got through in 2hrs 17mins which was better than I expected but disappointing that we had to walk so much of it when we had not been having any trouble going fast. As I came through the finish line we saw the medical tent so went in and sat(collapsed) on a chair. Again I started to faint as the pain came again. GRRRRRRRR. They were wonderful. NOT sure what the problem is but the physio said my back is definitely out. She also queried whether I had digestive problems. When the pain got bad I had said to my sis I think it is my ulcers. I have had stomach ulcers for 25 years. I have had them operated on and they just flair up occassionally. The physio said that because I was running trying to ignore the pain from them I probably held my body funny and that put my back out more and led to the muscle spasms!! After some time in the tent I felt better(they took our time again so I hope that is not the time they put in the paper as we had been in the tent about 20 mins.) so we went and got something to eat and then got the bus back to the station. Finally after saying bye to my sis I caught a train but then the attack came again and I thought I was going to pass out on the train. I got off at Caulfield and went to the toilet had a drink, something else to eat (as it helps with ulcers to have food in your tummy) and did some stretching. Caught the next train and felt every jolt. Again I thought I was going to pass out. I must have looked bad as I was sweating and sitting holding my head. Of course no one asked if I needed help. Got home and more painkillers and Dh rubbed some cream into my back and I went to bed. Body is still not good but a lot better. Have to give some thought to what to do about this; physio, DR?? Booked a massage yesterday with someone else on Tuesday as I knew my back was still bad. Ulcers are a problem I do not want to deal with.
BUT THE RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was very disappointing to end it the way we did because we were so in the zone and so enjoying it and would have been under 2hrs. CANNOT believe it. It was inspiring and my sister was so proud of me knowing how I have NEVER been into exercise before I started this journey. I was even doing better than her. It was hard but not really if that makes sense. We are planning future events and this one will definitely be an annual event for us. As my sister said I could not help what happened to my stupid body but we know we were rocking it in timewise.
I am posting some pictures I took and when I feel better I will gloat over them and remember how great it felt running over that giant bridge.
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2:31 am ::
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