Ice Cream and Cake!

Ah, yes, 20 MILES!! It took us forever, but we are SO CLOSE to the actual marathon!

Just think: only 6 more miles to the actual marathon finish. Not too shabby! I can honestly say I never thought I'd get this far. But I'm extremely proud that I have.

Although I definitely found myself icing my right knee after that run for quite a while.

Perhaps it was because I fell on it while dancing at a red light. Yeah, you read that right. Let me paint this picture for you:
Have you seen the Baskin-Robbins commercials? The ones where they sing: "Ice cream and cake and cake, ice cream and cake and cake. Ice cream and cake do they ice cream and cake!"
If you haven't, watch it now it in order to proceed with the story...



Okay, great. Now that you've got that song stuck in your head for the next 24 hours, I can tell you the rest.

For whatever brilliant reason, I decided to sing this song at every red light on our run. Which - at 20 miles- is a LOT of red lights. But it kept our morale up and entertained us. I would even do the dance. THAT is how dedicated I am.

But at about mile 14, I was jubilantly dancing around screaming "ICE CREAM AND CAKE DO THE ICE CREAM AND CAKE!" when I overestimated the amount of ground below me. Because I was at a corner, I was right on the curb and COMPLETELY missed the ground, falling into the street and crumpling down on my right knee. I basically melted to the ground because my body and legs were already so exhausted by this point. My whole group gasped and reached to grab my arms. I didn't scrape myself or bleed, but I did a number on my knee. Luckily it wasn't so drastic that I couldn't continue, but I don't think it helped anything.

Now my knee just gets kinda stiff if I've been sitting for too long. I've run since then and haven't had any problems.
BUT!
BE WARNED: ALWAYS USE CAUTION WHEN DANCING THE ICE CREAM AND CAKE AT ALL AND ANY RED LIGHTS.