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Did someone else pick it up?” No, I don’t know anyone else in this city! “Hmmm, I’m missing a few in a row! Go to the Solutions table.” We get to the expo and I go to pick up my bib in regular big pick up and it’s not there. The first corral in this race of 11,500 is both Gold seeded athletes (me) and Elite athletes. I was super pumped about this because I love when this happens to me, especially at a big city race! Who knows how much longer I will get to enjoy this so I soak it in.
Seeded means based on prior race performances, which I had provided. I had “Gold” (seeded) entry in the first corral which I learned on Monday when race bib assignments came out. The aquarium was followed by race kit pick up and a fiasco. I guess I actually didn’t faint so there’s that. They got to touch a shark and a stingray. This is not in a running book’s chapter on ideal pre-race race prep. Stands to reason that “confront your greatest fear” is not on a list of recommend things to do the day before you A-goal race. There was a tank with baby sharks that kids could reach in and touch and I almost vomited and/or passed out and had to sit down. There were monster fish that no one should have to witness. People, why is there a rope bridge above a shark tank and how has the human race even survived this long!? What’s a mother to do but stay next to her child when there are sharks around. With a sign not to let your phone fall out of your pocket or it would fall into the tank. You know, like the second floor at the mall.
I was expecting a civilized bridge with a tile floor, high above tank.
ADVENTURE AQUARIUM SHARK BRIDGE DARE TO CROSS LOGO FULL
The tunnel was terrifying, I got through ok until the end and a shark came at me, looking me in the eyes and I bolted out that tunnel, full on flight response. I knew there were a shark tunnel and a bridge over the shark tank. It meant that I pretty much spent three hours drenched in stress hormones. I was happy to be able to provide my kids with this experience. This is me.īut it was what kids wanted to do and it was Shannon’s birthday. Which human beings are not supposed to see, that’s why they are under the ocean and we live on land and you can’t see them when you look at the ocean. I personally have a long-standing and deep-seated fear of all the things under the surface of the ocean. The four kids wanted to visit the famous Adventure Aquarium. The next thing was the family vacation day. Drive? Uber? Subway? It was reminiscent o f my Big Sur Marathon pre-race transportation shit show plan involving catching a ride to the 3:30am bus with a random dude from Mexico that I met in the elevator for 2 minutes: which I also lost sleep over. My friends Shannon and Brian couldn’t agree on the best way there. Like 22km away but a world away in road closures, subway stops that don’t reach the race site, shuttles and unfamiliar roads. Read: it was not super close to the race. Which was across the Delaware River in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I had a somewhat sleepless night, worrying about how I was going to get to the start line for the super early recommended 6am arrival time to get through security checks for the 7:30am start. Then came Friday and a few things unfolded on this day prior to my race that did not set me up for success in racing.
He also started loudly shaming Donald Trump as soon as we got through USA Customs 😉 The travel took 12.5 hours from 4:15am wake up to arrival at Shannon’s home.
ADVENTURE AQUARIUM SHARK BRIDGE DARE TO CROSS LOGO MAC
He stopped walking to try on lipstick samples at the MAC counter. I did lose sight of my 5 year old once in Toronto. Travelling solo with my kids was easy and enjoyable.
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