Crap! I forgot to sacrafice the chicken!!!

Had a crappy nine mile run today.  Not sure what went wrong - I did all my pre-long run rituals including preloading with water, having electrolytes available, body glide (TMI), tunes, etc. and it was miserable.  The only pre-run thing I did not do was sacrifice a chicken.  I did do the nine miles and ran to the end in just over two hours.  I noticed at mile four that there were going to be hard times ahead.  We did it indoors on a treadmill and it was hot and no fans - I think that was a big part of the problem.  They had the four mile loop at Ft. Rich plowed and I put sheet metal screws in my shoes and Michelle's.  However, we ended up indoors.  I guess the only highlights is that I finished - and the treadmill had a TV with closed captioning.  I was watching some news programs and it was hilarious some of the words the closed captioning machine came up with (not the most accurate).  I was laughing through the pain...
  -BJH