Ginger Soup for the Soul: a Story of Redemption at the C&O Canal 100
"It never always gets worse." -- David Horton "Mile 80 doesn't care what you wanted when you signed up or how you felt at the start line. It only cares about right now, about what you do when fatigue assaults your will. It only cares about your next step." -- @WickedTrailRunning It was happening. I couldn’t stop it. I’m pretty sure I was yelling nooooooo as all eyes turned toward me and heads shook with disappointment and pity and the music came to a halt, all in slow motion. I was about to sit in a chair at mile 75 of the C&O Canal 100. I’ve always been wary of The Chair, afraid my muscles will suddenly cease to function and that I’ll succumb to the “pleasure” that’s really just the ending of pain, and my race will be over. But it couldn’t be helped this time, and I made sure to announce to the volunteers at Antietam that this was a first for me. I only needed two minutes off my aching feet, one of which was experiencing a first of its own: a soon-to-b...
