I wasn't disappointed last night, but am a bit today. I completed 27 miles of the Full Moon 50K, and quit at 7:33:31. There was, I believed, no way I could finish the final four miles in 1:26:29 (and, now, at 11:29 a.m. Sunday morning, after having written that, realize that I still believe it), but that really wasn't the point. My legs had a sudden lockup. I was doing my best to not fall down when I stopped to let a vehicle pass, which happened to be the shuttle van bringing down people who didn't make the 2 a.m. cutoff at Elaine Gimblet's aid station. They gave me a ride from approximately a quarter mile short of the final water stop.
By the way, the course started a little over a nine-minute walk and jog towards Arkansas 10 from the last few years' starts. All the GPS people said it was about 32 miles long, or roughly a 52K. My splits (with aid station stops in parentheses) were 2:12:25 (5:19), 1:57:12 (7:52), 2:04:25 (7:27), and 58:50. Man, I'm sore.
My new, $25 Coleman headlight worked well. I wish I had had it for Rocky.
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