Edema Rue

Have you ever heard someone scream into a pillow

if not, go listen to one of the local pillow-screamers, then return

that is the noise I’m making right now

Ugh.

ugh ugh ugh ugh UGH

Today was supposed to be our first bike race of the year. I don’t love the course, and I haven’t had a ton of time to train but I love racing and I was excited…well nervous excited, the way it always is before big races or games, y’know?

and uh

STUPID WEATHER

so there was a ton of rain and lightning by and stuff this morning, so the first people racing got delayed (I was supposed to stage at 1:50). But it was fine. Then, at around 11, there were more delays. This was right as varsity was racing, and they got the notice to pull everyone from the course after the four fastest boys had gone through. They got everyone else off and got a course martial for those boys but uh…

I’ve heard so many different stories of what happened, but the ones from people who were actually there are that lightning struck his handle bars. Everyone heard the boom (seriously SO loud) and so then stuff was iffy for a minute there. (As far as we know he’s ok, we always have 2+ ambulances at races so it got worked out)

And so then everyone’s kinda wondering what’s happening, and we all were just there for an hour or so. Then they give the ok and varsity and JVA girls go out, and for the next couple hours we’re good and it’s working out. Everyone was only going to get 1 lap for the rest of the day, but whatever, we still race, it’s fine

AND THEN THE LIGHTNING COMES BACK

IT SCUDDING CAME BACK

At this point my race had been pushed back to 3:10, but we were good and ready and staged and ready to go

and then

at scudding 3:09

there’s lightning 7 miles from us and getting closer

so they delay another 30 minutes

And we sit around waiting

and then at about 4 they tell us that actually everything for the rest of the day is cancelled

AAAGHHHHHHH

i’m really bugged if you couldn’t tell lol