Day 57 - 15 km run

It was a tough weekend - I was in Kamloops for my Great Uncle's funeral, and it was difficult to see my family going through such a hard time. He was a great man, and my Aunt Toots is a wonderful woman - they had been together for over 61 years so this is going to be a difficult time for her. I was honored to be there, and to have been asked to be a pallbearer for him.

It was a four hour drive home, so I arrived home, unpacked, said hello briefly to my roommate who has just arrived home from Cuba, and headed out for the run that I would have done with the team if I had been here in the morning. It was VERY difficult to do on my own. I was meant to have done 18km, but a couple of things kept me from being able to. The first was the fact that I had to work, so I just couldn't do another 3km (I was late to work as it was) and the other was the pain. I didn't have time to really stretch out properly, and as a result I had to deal with a lot of pain. It was mentally very difficult to do without the support of other runners with me, and physically I was absolutely drained and kept praying to the Universe to help me make it through to the end. I managed to finish, but then had to work at the restaurant and was on my feet the whole night. Needless to say, I am tired, but at least I made it out. I didn't think I would be able to.