G.I. Jane
July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Shanna's Blog Entries | No Comments »Last night I got done wiht that long blog late so i slept in. I looked up the ultraman and saw that i have some good competition. It aint over tell the fat lady sings……i am going to have to race every day again. I usually get a nice lead on day one from the swim but that wont be happening this year. I am going to have to race all 3 days. i do very well when i dont have pressure and so it has always been nice having such a lead after the swim but I might get beat out of the water. I went to bed thinking that this morning i would start some core training and had visions of training like Demi Moore in G.I Jane. I got up this morning and well…..no G.I Jane. I hate core work…hehehehe
running-i did however take off to do a run and i cant beleive how great my legs felt. I only ran 2 miles but it felt good. It is nice to be able to run again. My blstered areas are now like leather and itch but i can run on them for now. When the outer layer sheds off i will have some troubles again. I have to excercise to clear my mind and i am much more productive afterwards.
Hospital-i am getting my excercise these days!!! I cant seem to find a place to park my big old van and am having to really walk a long way to get into the hospital. i got talked to pretty back by a parking lot attendant shooing me off from the resturaunt parking lot. It was a big 300 lb woman that looked like she had not bathed in a week. She was pretty darn rude. I got her back this afternoon. I acutally went into the resteraunt to get some icecream and she came over to my van while i was in it. it was nice to let her have a taste of her own medicine when i told her to back off. She ahd to be nice to be then since i was really a customer. i can tell that we are going to have fun everytime I go into that parking lot. i might just do it to make her nuts.
Anyway I had these visions of taking advantage of my swollen feet last Friday when I got in town. I was thinking that I would finally get to use those electric chairs at the grocery store and would get to use one at the hospital…….NOT. I really do hate walking and i wont go to the grocery store if i have to walk to far across the parking lot. Today i was temted at the store to get that chair but my feet did not look that bad. I did have lots of people that recognized me and congratualated me for such a great race. I am the little local celeb so i guess it was ok that i was not in the wheel chair. i had the store manager come up to check my feet out and congratulate me. yes ……my social life is the grocery store.
Swimming- i managed to grab one of these today. It was not a long swim but if i am going to ahve a chance at ultraman then I need to be in top shape on the swim. i cant let up now. I will be going and talking to my old swim coach about jumping in with the high school team some. I ahve lost the speed and need to get it back. The last time I tried to do this I thought the kids would think I was cool but they called me lady and made fun of me so i never went back. I got stuck at the back of the lane so they thought i was a pitiful old lady but I will see about earning my respect from these kiddoes again. i wont be getting up at 5 am every day but once wont hurt.
Badwater–I finally looked at my splits this morning. Holy Moly……i blew up or at least we can say that my feet did. I really slowed down. I will tell you that i did not knwo that i was going to become the 4th girl . I saw the car that said Hutchinson and my crew told me it was a girl but I told them they were lying. I was not in my right mind at the time. I actually remembered her crew in the beginning of the race. They all had hammer shirts on and were really cheering their girl on. i never looked back to see but i thought they were crewing for a guy for some reason. I would smile and be really nice to them and they were nice back but now that i look back I did since some distance. When I saw this crew again going into the finish I sensed that they really wanted their runner to pass. I was actually ok with this since i thought it was a guy. I dont compete with men. I was not bothered one bit by the idea of getting passed. My crew was bothered since they he was a girl and they kept looking back. My comments to them were to quit looking back. Blake actually ran back to check out how close she was and I got mad at him. My comment was ” if he wants to pass me in the end and that makes him happy then it will be ok…..quit looking!” I was so out of it with the pain in my feet at the finish that I did not really notice who the runner was when they crossed a minute behind me. It was not until the next morning that Thomas pointed it out to me how close the next girl was……OOPS. That was close. The funny part is that my crew did say taht they thought it was a girl so I would not have been able to hold them accountable. I actually had to apologize to them for this. I would of been upset if I lost it the last minute. I might of been going nuts if I knew what was really going to happen. The good thing is that I did not go insane over it since i did not know. Sometimes being a ding dong really pays off. I still got to have a calm mind since I thought the she was a he. Makes sense now why her crew was not wooping and hollering for me to get going. My crew did all the sweating and stressing for me. I bet they were wondering if she passed me what kind of trouble they would be in.
Bubble Wrap- this is pretty much what I was walking on in the end and I did not really cry about it to my crew. They had no idea how bad my feet were. I knew they were going to hurt. I was more concerned about the crappy music that was being played in the end of the race. I spoke with Blake tonight and we were able to laugh about how much I was bitching about the music. He was the designated DJ when Adian was gone but he was running with me. He mentioned tonight that he was wondering about his report card. I told him about 27 hours into the race that he got an “F” on the music. My race report will explain my thoughts and what all happened in the race. It is all pretty funny now that the race is over. Crews really do have to put up with some crap. We runners have our moments and I started having them at the 100 mile mark.
writing- I know these blogs have lots of typos and spelling errors. Sometimes it is late and I just put it down on paper. I also had a blond moment and ordered a nice sony computer last year and it is a japanese computer. The keyboard is japanese with symbols on it but it is an American layout. So i have to imagine where the keys are and really know a keyboard since the the letting on the key is not waht comes out on the page. i am in the process of working this problem out so that I can impress you guys. I could type all of this up in word but that cut and paste stuff at midnight gets old. My race report will be done in word but these little blogs at night take up some time. I seem to get corrected a bunch but trust me I do know that my blogs have the typos. Just imagine typing on a 9 inch japanese keyboard that you cant find all the symbols on and perhaps you will see why I have some bad typos. My blogs are also long so rereading them does not always happen. The ones I do reread I am do blush from.






