50 for 50

[yellow]

OK, I'm going to start this now so that I have plenty of time to gather my 50 wishes/thoughts/nuggets of goodness.

I need a wish for each mile for my event June 4. Of course, I will take more than 50 (it's actually closer to 51 miles anyway)!

My plan is to put them all on a piece of paper and stuff it in my Nathan. Yes, these 50 wishes will go all the way with me.

Go!

[lph]

I wish for more women to be like you!

[Grog]

Cool!

Maybe "world peace"?

[azfiddle]

I don't run, but my husband has done four organized 50 mile runs and 5 or 6 on his own. He had one DNF and one end of run super bonk, and has used those experiences to figure out what works for him. He had his most successful run this spring in the Old Pueblo 50, and ended the run feeling really great. In fact the organizers told him his was the best finish they had seen!

I'm sure his advice would be:

Eat, stay hydrated and keep your electrolytes up! Eat 200-300 calories per hour and drink based on your sweat rate. Don't push yourself and rest/walk when you need to.

Good luck- and my wish/hope is: I hope you don't lose too many toenails!

[yellow]

OK, so that's 3. Only 47 to go. I can always make my own list, but my thought/hope is that by getting wishes from others that running the 50 miles will have some other purpose than...just running 50 miles.

I will add one based on conversation with friends last night over beer:

Tolerance

[Veronica]

I've been trying to think of a really good wish, something not too shallow or obvious. Something that could really happen.

I think I'd wish for another day like this.




Veronica

[yellow]

Thanks, V. That is AWESOME.

[snapdragen]

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. (with thanks to Tom Robbins)

[colby]

I would go with "I can do this" but that's not a wish.

I wish for a smile.

(Is that cheating? )

[salsabike]

That little kids who get seriously ill get better! Just because I really like little kids and want them to get to have fun.

[maillotpois]

I wish you cool mild breezes and no blisters!!!

[Grog]

What about:

"I want to be able to do this as many more times as I want. "

[SadieKate]

I wish you miles of happy thoughts in the moment.

I wish for you to find just the right running companions when you need them and solitude when you need it.

I wish for you to have a soundtrack of babbling brooks and bird songs.

I wish for you only gentle bounces if there are unplanned up close encounters with trail obSTACKles.

I wish for an awesome fishing trip with you this summer.

~SK

*PS - I can ask that big guy at the right hand end of the photo for a list of 50 whines.

[indigoiis]

"So thankful to be here!" <--- I wish this feeling for you, about mile 28.

[OakLeaf]

I didn't remember this one on my own, someone posted it on FB. And it's three wishes. But here:

"I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!"
-- Robert Bolt (Steward, A Man for All Seasons)