100 miler! The hardest, most last minute run of my life..

So ya judging by the title, you have guessed.. I have ran a 100 mile run. This is true, and this is how it came about. I was talking with Joe Decker and he said next weekend he wanted to do a 100 mile run on Saturday if he could get things worked out. So I asked my mom, and she was like “sure if Joe is doing it, he is a good guy and highly professional”. So I was like sweet! I am totally running a 100 miler this weekend. So I prepared the week accordingly. I ran four miles on monday and that was it, for the whole week of running. Then the rest of the week I worked like hell on my abs, lower back, upper back just trying to build a really strong core before attempting this run. I also worked out a ton on my leg muscles doing upwards of 600+ lunges of doom over the week (stupid lunges..they make your butt hurt..) So then ya anyway with the run, Joe e-mailed me again early in the week saying that he couldnt do it this weekend and that instead he was going to run a 50 miler on thursday starting off at 7:00 at night and running until 7:00 the next morning in the Cuyamaca Mountains. I thought, “damn thats uhm crazy and kinda weird..” (He was running at night because its the most challenging part of a run to get through apparently.) So I asked my mom if I could join him on that, She said no because I had school on friday. So I was like ok, uhm can I run to long beach? (which is 100 miles away from San Diego) She said ya, only if I have a crew of min. two people with me the whole time and I have to have the thing completly planned out to the point where mile by mile I know my calorie intake and loss. So I agreed. Then friday rolled around and my friends that were going to crew for me, flaked out on me! (it happens all the time though..) So I was talking with my friends Phil and  Sean in Civics and was like alright so would you guys be able to join me if I kept the run local and just did four different marathons in four different directions? Then they agreed that, they would be able to crew for me if I did that. So I spent the rest of the day re-routing and preparing a run stationed in Canyonside Park and going North, South, East and West for 100 miles. So that was how this run came about last minute…and this is its story…..

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