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September 18, 2004
Ivan the Terrible
All day yesterday I was waiting for the rain to come in. The forecast was for rain all day on Friday and into Saturday. When I got home last night (a little bit after 11) the rain still had not started. I knew that it meant that it was going to rain all day today. The first time I woke up this morning, around 7:30, it was absolutely pouring. Like it was so loud that I knew just in my groggy state that there was no way on earth that I would head out for my short run in rain that hard. I took advantage of the weather today to catch up on some much needed sleep, and didn't get out of bed until around 9:15.
It is still raining pretty hard right now, but I did manage to drag myself out the door to run today. Let me say that I am happy PDR is tomorrow, not today. My legs were hardly moving. It was raining hard and windy. These are the kind of conditions I abhore. One good thing about this weather is that there was no way that I could run too hard in it. I was going to do about 5 miles, but it was so gross out and I was so miserable that I decided to do 4 instead. The first 2 my legs weren't too cooperative, but the second 2 were much better. I went out in 15:45 and came back in 14:00. I jogged up and down the driveway to make up the last 15 seconds since I like to be able to say that I was out for an even amount of time.
The weather was much cooler, and of course wet. I had on shorts, a sports bra, light jacket, and hat. I never made up my mind if I was warm or cool. Being soaked to the bone makes it hard to determine if the temperature is right or not. I selected today to be the last day that I wore my stinky Wave Riders. My new ones aren't in yet, but they should be in a few days. I have a few other pairs of shoes hanging around that I can wear, including a brand new pair (which I couldn't wear today because it is the day before a race and pouring). My brother used to make fun of me because I didn't like having bright white running shoes, I like them to be just dingy. Muddy and stinky are bad and bright white with absolutely no stink is bad. Somewhere in the middle is just perfect.
The forecast for tomorrow looks good. They're calling for a low in the mid 50s, a high of 70, and sun. Since the race starts at 8, it should be in the upper 50s to low 60s, comfy running temps in my opinion.
Later on today I'm going to take an ice bath. We didn't have enough ice in the freezer to do any good. I just didn't feel like dealing with going into the Wawa soaking wet to buy some ice. When the rain tapers off, I'll go down and buy two bags of ice and subject myself to the freezing of my legs. Today I'm going to have to put more water and ice in the tub to cover the tops of my quads. The past few times my quads haven't been under the water and I definitely feel the difference in my quads and hamstrings.
Posted by Blondie at September 18, 2004 11:50 AM
Comments
I loved your comment about your running shoes. I HATE wearing bright white running shoes...I always try to spot a puddle to splash through and then a pile of dirt to layer it on :-) I guess I am self conscious and think that other runners will take one look at my white shoes and sigh, "slacker." Which, of course, I am these days! Anyway, GOOD LUCK in your race - you will do fantastic!
Posted by: bridget at September 18, 2004 06:35 PM
I think I'm late for well-wishing, but I hope you had a good race with even better weather! Meghan
Posted by: Meghan at September 19, 2004 12:27 PM
Nice job in the race!!
Posted by: Alison at September 19, 2004 01:35 PM