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Finally feel like I have enough energy to muster something up for this race after a week in the hospital. Thought I did everything right leading up to the race, but I guess the pieces weren't as lined up as I thought. Did mess up a bit tactically, one of the first times i actually went out too hot overall then kinda flamed out, just got dragged out in the first half and told myself to commit to it. Felt good until it didn't, got slapped in the face with fatigue with 1k, kept repeating to myself "Connor Mantz" and to be gritty and honestly it worked for a good bit, this is where it would have been nice if the course was actually measured properly. Had a death crawl the last 400, bodies kept passing by but all I wanted to finish and not eat shit. Collapsed and rolled over the line, and in an ideal world this is where the story ends, just a prefontaine-esque send. 

Had an agnozing hour afterwards, wish i wasn't conscious. Heart racing, breathing short, head felt like it was gonna explode and legs didn't feel like they were mine every time i tried to stand. Post 10 hr drive of being curled in a ball of misery and a day of throwing up later, decided to go to ER. Turns out i sent it so hard that my kidneys shut down, rad. 

Don't know where the story goes from here, trying not to think about the future too much. 



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