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I met Dirk in the morning for a long run. We headed south on the Rock Creek Park trails before heading up Tilden and coming back down the trails before the zoo. Halfway down the trail about 45 minutes into the run, I cried out in pain: a yellow jacket flew into the back of my head and started stinging me. I'm in desperate need of a haircut right now, so the little hell demon wouldn't budge when I tried to dig him out of my thick blonde mop of hair. Fortunately, Dirk saved the day and picked him out while I whimpered.
I shook it off and tried to ignore the irritating swelling as we continued. We made out way up Ross Drive and down to the bathroom on Beach Drive near the police station where I took a mandatory pit stop. My plan today was to run 13 miles with Dirk, and then jump into two Meadowbrook loops at marathon pace (~5:45). After I got out of the bathroom, though, Dirk jumped ahead. My mid-run tempo was starting early. We cruised down the trails at about marathon pace through the line where we ran one Meadowbrook loop hitting 5:41 and 5:38 pretty comfortably. After the loop, we wished each other well and parted ways before I set into a cooldown, where I started a hardcore bonk that came with another pit stop. My "bonk" turned out to be dehydration, because when I finally came to a water fountain at Candy Cane City, I felt like Ponce de Leon. I was able to rebound a little and had a solid run the rest of the way home.
Weird run today but with some solid work thrown in there. This has been and continues to be a hectic week, so I'll take it.
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