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Last night the kids had their race. Because Aiden is 5 and Addy is 3 they ran the same race. Prior to the race it poured with some severe lightning and thunder. I was thinking it was going to be canceled, but the rain stopped and humidity hit hard. Because Aiden is 5 they ran by age so we were one of the last heats. We stood there waiting for about an hour. It took FOREVER! However, Addy was well behaved and Aiden found a caterpillar so he was distracted. We finally ran and they had a good time and took great pride in their medals and Twinkies and hot dogs.

This morning I woke up at 4 am due to a loud burst of thunder and lightning. I planned on waking up at 4:30, but my nerves started to kick in and I decided to just get up. I made a pot of coffee and ate an egg sandwich, did some reading, messed around on the internet all while getting up and moving around about 20 times. I don't know why I was nervous, but in hindsight I think it was because I did not want to run poorly. Another reason was that it was raining and I have not trained or prepared to run in rain. This was a new weather element that I have been avoiding with all this heat. After going to the bathroom about 7 times I took off for the race about 6:45.

I parked about .25 mile away and walked in the rain to the RiverCenter to see where I needed to go. I went to the bathroom again(I never pee this much in a week!) and realized that it was now 7:35 and time to figure out where I needed to line up. I went to the gate where I thought I needed to be and it was wrong, so I had to hurry around the parking garage to my spot. I was in the massive horde of people in the rain waiting to go. By this point, I was already soaked and thinking to myself if I was really prepared to run soaking wet.by coffe fort the brain

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