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My OMGWTFDNF Report: The curse of the turkey or Cinderella or both.

Let's just get this out of the way: I got my first ever Did Not Finish last Saturday at Coastal's Cinderella trail run in the Oakland Hills. I don't like really like the idea of seeing DNF after my name, but maybe we can petition to officially change it to OMGWTFDNF. Takes a little of the sting off. Here's me walking to my doom, I mean the start.  It just wasn't my day. It was a series of unfortunate events. Almost ate it a few different times right off the bat due to some steep descents and gnarly footing On one of those times, my foot slid underneath me causing me to fling my arm out and catapult my phone out of the zipper pocket of my handheld into oblivion. Lucky for me, the girl behind me saw where it landed in the foliage.  Saw a girl get completely mowed over in front of me by one of the lead 10k runners that came barrelling up behind us on single track.  Saw a turkey. Pointed at it and said "heyyyy" with what was probably an idiotic s...