Well, these are the only two pictures I have of this not so lovely day... Maybe it would've been cool to have taken some pics of the disaster that happened, but maybe it's best not remembered!
It all started out when Olivia invited me to run a 5K with her for her school fitness day during the last week of school. I thought that it sounded fun and had her sign me up! The day got closer and closer (I think it was May 22 that this all went down) and I was pretty excited to run this race with her. It was a smokin' hot day!! So, the race started and we decided to try and run the whole way. That should be easy, right? After all, I had just gone 7 miles with Rick just a few days before. So run we did.
My mom snapped these two photos as we came running toward the finish line, and just a little while later was the part of that day that I'm still recovering from...
Soooooo, after we crossed the finish line we went and picked up our times and then walked over to get a water bottle and a granola bar. We walked back over to where my mom and Kimbri and a few other people that we knew were waiting. I started to feel super light-headed, so I walked over to some shade and just figured I needed to stretch and cool off. Like I said before, it was seriously a smokin' hot day! Not to mention we were running in all that heat. After a few minutes I got up and walked back over to my mom. I started to feel sick. You know that feeling you get when you're so hot that you start getting cold? My head was hurting and I knew I needed to go. My mom started pushing the stroller and offered to just drive me home and that we could pick my car up later. Well, for some reason I thought that if I could just make it to my car and sit down with the air conditioner on me that I would start to feel better. And let's face it. By this point I was feeling really bad.
Well, I was trying to get to my car - which by the way was parked just on the other side of that portable classroom in the pictures above - and suddenly just felt totally crazy. My car was like 5 feet away but I felt the need to lean on the portable to just rest my head for a second. I remember my mom walking by and asking if I was going to just ride with her. That's when I think she knew something was wrong and asked me if I was okay. And that's when I don't remember anything else. From what I'm told, my mom said that I turned toward her after she asked my that last question and then I just fell forward. My right arm sliding along the extremely scratchy side board getting all scraped up, my knuckles luckily breaking some of the fall on the asphalt and my nose also hitting the asphalt. I also received a slight bruise and scratch on my left knee and a little scrape on my chin.
Yep, I passed out.
It was my first experience passing out in my whole life.
The next thing I remember is my mom saying "Alina! Alina!". She had seen me start to fall and tried to run and catch me but I was too far away and fell too fast. I awoke and saw blood all over my hands and my nose was bleeding. One of Wyatt's friends used their longboard to prop my feet up and a jacket to prop my head up. It was the weirdest feeling. I felt a lot better right after waking up than I did just before! But as soon as I tried to sit and stand up I started feeling the exact feeling as before and had to just lay back down. A bunch of people were, of course, surrounding me and I was just totally embarrassed by the whole situation. I ate a granola bar and drank some more water. Everyone was asking if I had eaten breakfast and drinken enough. And yes! I had some Rice Chex that morning and almost a full water bottle during the race but I'm tellin' ya...the heat was bad!! I just had to lay there for quite a while until I felt that I could sit up and then eventually stand up. What a weird experience!!
My mom gave me a ride back to her house and I just rested and took a long nap while my mom and Olivia took car of Kimbri. What a day! What a day! My nose is finally feeling almost all better - still sore but showing a lot of improvement. And I still have ugly looking scabs on my knuckles which made it really hard to bend my fingers for several days...but they are also feeling much better. I'm just really grateful that my knuckles broke the fall, otherwise my face (especially my nose) would've been much worse off!!
Anyway, I'm grateful for all the people that were there to help me and especially my mom for taking care of me and watching Kimbri the rest of the day so I could rest!
I'm not so sure if I'm going to love the idea of going running for the next while....maybe I'll start up swimming again :)
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