Eleven miles ...

• is a long way.
• will make your toes hurt for being in your running shoes for 2 hours and 10 minutes.
• will make your brain stop telling your legs what to do so that when you stop running, it will make you wonder if you're going to collapse and take a good five minutes for the walking to feel normal.
• will make your legs hurt, and your hip, and your knees, and your lower back, and your stomach, and your breasts.
• will make your calves sexy.
• will make you so grateful for the energy gels that you bought at Dick's.
• will make you wish you had bought some type of hydration pack.
• will make you hate the people in front of you at Shelley Lake who are walking six wide with no concept of the fact that people are trying to pass them.
• will make you mad at the City of Raleigh for not marking their trails clearly such that you end up on some random street inside the Beltline or don't take the trail that you wanted and end up on the steepest hill (by Root Elementary School) east of the Eastern Continental Divide.
• will make you feel like crying between miles 9.75 and 10.5.
• will make you simultaneously love and hate running.
• is completely worth it, despite everything.
• will make you so proud of what you can push your body to do.

Today's Run on the Garmin