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Anonymous wrote:You'll be totally fine. Good luck, and have a blast!

Oh! Unfortunate choice of words! I know it was posted several days prior to Boston, but, OH!

That was my comment. I'm devastated by what happened in Boston. Did you really need to dig up this thread to post that comment?

Anonymous wrote:You'll be totally fine. Good luck, and have a blast!

Oh! Unfortunate choice of words! I know it was posted several days prior to Boston, but, OH!

Congrats, OP! The bright side of not being as fast as you hoped is that you could show amazing improvement for your second race. I think it's good to do shorter races as a lead-up to longer races, so you get to be excited about each new distance.

Anonymous wrote:Really. A person with normal kidney function and no other pre-existing conditions is not going to get kidney failure or a GI bleed from taking Motrin and running a 10k. Especially since while running a race you are constantly hydrating. I've been racing for 30 years.

http://myrunningdoc.blogspot.com/2010/05/nsaids-why-runners-should-think-twice.html

I've been racing for decades too. I've even taken Advil during a race, but its a terrible idea. This has nothing to do with pre-existingconditions and I have no idea what you mean by "constantly hydrating." I never drink enough to replace the sweat on a day like today and for a 10K I probably wouldn't drink any water at all during the race. As i wrote before, runners probably don't have to worry about the issue for a 10K, but when PP wrote that OP should take massive amounts of an NSAID, that is a really terrible idea. Most of us can take an advil during a race and get away with it, but sometimes runners can't and there's no reason to take that risk. As OP wrote, once you get going the adrenaline is more effective anyway.