Does It Ever Get Easier?

Help, someone please help me before it’s too late. 

Isn’t that the first step to getting help.  Admitting it?  You see I do need help.  And quickly.  The Bay is coming up in a few short days and am I in trouble.  I have rewritten this blog so many times, I can’t quite face making this public.

But here goes, I can’t drink out of a water bottle and run at the same time.  There I’ve said it.  It doesn’t matter what type of water bottle it is, I can’t run and drink.   I can’t say I haven’t tried.  I have used several different types of water bottles and it just doesn’t matter. 

I try to run and drink water at the same time  and it ends up one of two ways. 

I was doing the Downtown Run and Dash in Burlington and they picked one of the hottest days of the year.  So I am crusing along Maple Avenue and I am sweating like you wouldn’t believe.   I take a drink out of my sippy water bottle.  And decide that breathing at the same time is a good thing. 

The race organizers almost had to stop the race.    Water spewed out my nose.  I was coughing so hard.  And let’s not forget the water that splashed down my shirt.  It looked like I had spilled the entire water bottle on myself.  it was only half, but who’s counting?

 The other way for it to end is that no water ends up in my mouth.  But the result is still the same.  The water bottle ends up spilled down the front of my shirt.  And I still end up with a wet chest.

And when I hit the water stations?  I have to stop running completely.  Otherwise I end up scaring other runners and the organizers.

So if anyone has any ideas, please feel free to pass them on.  Otherwise keep away from the lady who looks like she stuck her chest in a tub of water and lost.  That will be me.

Just a reminder to come and see me Friday when you come to pick up your race packet.  I’ll be at the Road2Hope booth.