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Lots of fun this weekend at Colorado Bend SP trail racing with my love bug Justin Elliott, stoked to have taken first overall and pretty sure I set the women’s CR, but bummed to have taken a pretty gnarly tumble at mile 11. I busted my knee open real good and it was an excruciating and terrible experience, I was already hurting bad (this was a tough course!!!) and I fell HARD, I can very vividly remember looking at my knee at like the instant it happened and just seeing a massive hole before it started bleeding. I had to stop for about 10 minutes while one of the longer distance runners tried to help give me first aid and it gave me a chance to compose myself to finish…but I literally don’t know how I finished and still won 😂 it was pure adrenaline. The last two miles were literally creek crossings and cliff scaling ??? I will add some pics bc we went back and hiked it today. The knee is in really rough shape and unfortunately Imma have to take some easy running days and really limit myself, not that I have an option bc moving is really hard rn. I’ve never been so happy and relieved to finish a run. And seeing Justin cross the finish line was another major highlight, he ran SO WELL and earned some hardware for himself finishing third for the men!!! Very emotional experience and fun weekend in the middle of nowhere Texas camping and vibing and spending some quality time outside. Time to heal up and focus on short and fast and flat running now 😂

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