Mileage for today: 36 Visit 22nd House. Enter 13th State Starting point is on Route 23 in Ridge Spring, SC. Stopping point is at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Augusta located at 938 Greene Street. Today's run is dedicated to the memory of Andrea Alaine Burgess who succumb to a brain tumor at the 17 months. This day's dedication was submitted by her aunt Lori Sherwood. You sure got's a pretty goat. It was just below freezing last night and I slept well. Woke up a few times, but was very warm. Thanks again to Cousin Ed for hooking me up with a killer sleeping bag. The worst part of the morning was packing up. It got really, really cold then. That and when I realized I drank all the chocolate milk from last night - damn! My first mission of the day was to find some AM grub. I strolled through downtown (and I guess uptown) Ridge Spring. The store I needed was closed. I don't mean not open, I mean closed. Out of business. You can't buy that there anymore kind of closed. Great. I did find a little Mexican store that sold tacos and stuff . . . 24 miles later. I was really flat today. The legs felt great and I wasn't worn out, but I was just zapped. Perhaps I was just bummed about the chocolate milk? 20+ miles is a long way to run without breakfast and sucking down gels. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it flat out sucks. About 8 miles before the store, I meandered past a sign that read "Goat for sale $100. Pick your own goat." Oh, some of the things I have seen. Actually picking your own goat is good, because the last thing you want is to get stuck with the ugly one. The last 6 or 7 miles I really felt good and was moving along at a decent clip. Best guess is I was knocking back 7:45 to 8 minutes per mile. Which is surprising because I really didn't have good running days the last two times out. I also put in the most miles in two days this whole trip - 78. It was suppose to be 76, but I made a wrong turn and added 2 miles to the day - the GPS was turned off then. Which reminds me, yesterday I dropped the damn thing and the on/off button fell off, now I have to use a paper clip to turn it on and off. The day ended great. I went to the children's hospital and spoke with a few of the kids there. They asked me all kinds of great questions and will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the trip. |
Day 51 - Wagener, SC to Augusta, GA
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