Lack of sleep and slight dehydration caused me to postpone my HH10K W4D7 run until today. The weather was perfect and the run felt good, and I’m happy (?) to say I had a new first tonight… namely, I swallowed my first bug while running.
Probably a gnat or something, but it (of course) felt quite large and was well past the point of spitting it out.
I’d like to say it happened because I’m just that fast, but more likely it was because I was sucking air so hard I pulled him in from across the street.
Nice! I got a gnat in my eye the other night…it’s SUMMER BABY!
I like to think of swallowing bugs as re-fueling during a run. If you swallow enough of them then you don’t even need Clif Shot Gels or GU. Thanks for the link.
@nate: Indeed it is. I spend summer looking forward to fall. ;)
@vanilla: Heh, nice! Perhaps I should actively chase down large ones as I run. (bug fartlek?)
I inhaled a spider once – not nice.
But that’s what you get when you go off trail ; )