Race Recap - Grayson Highlands 50k
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance ‑ you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations, or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. — Doris Brown Heritage I almost titled this one... "The day I broke up with running." Haha, just kidding, sort of, not really. May 5th, 2018 was certainly a day to remember. Honestly, this really was the race that broke me. Humbling is another word I'd use to describe that day. You'll see why... fairly quickly. I went into this race knowing I'd not done enough training - my weekday short runs were not consistently long enough (they really need to be 6-10 milers, and I consistently did 4-6 milers)... my weekend long runs were interrupted by life (it happens) but also by a crippling fatigue that began in January of this year. I went to my doctor after 2 months of the severe fatigue, all tests were normal (my Vit...