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March 28, 2005
Just Under the Wire
Today I did what I love to do on days off from work: absolutely nothing! I know that it can be lazy, but every now and then I feel that I deserve a day of complete and total relaxation. I do need to do laundry, but today was not the day to attempt that feat. I hang my laundry outside and with the 2 plus inches of rain today, it would never have gotten dry.
I woke up a few times this morning, but did not really wake up until just before 9. I headed out the door for my morning run about ten minutes later. The rain had not really started at this point, it was only drizzling. My first thought was that the front had missed us and today was not going to be all that bad. I did my usual four mile out and back and was amazed at how much faster it is when I go later in the morning. Even though I had just dragged myself out of bed, it still felt easier.
About an hour after I got back from my morning run it started to pour. It poured all day. I talked to J around 2:00 and decided to abort tonight's track workout. I guess that it can't really be called aborting it because we decided to just bag it. I could go to the gym and hop on the treadmill, but that is not really a viable option. Considering the weather today, it was going to be crowded and they would kick me off after half an hour. Also, I pretty much refuse to run on a treadmill. We decided that I would try to do a four mile tempo run tomorrow morning and then do an easy run in the afternoon with him. If the weather cleared up, I could try to do the 600s, but sloshing around the track did not seem to be what I wanted to do.
I did head over to the track to see if anyone showed up. About two minutes into my drive over there, it started to thunder/lightning and pour again. I decided that I would keep on driving over since it could clear up. I guess that I'm the only one who is insane enough to think about running because nobody else arrived. I waited about ten minutes after the starting time and nobody was there, but it had stopped raining! I did the warm-up loop and came back to see if anybody else was crazy enough to come, but no dice. I decided to do the extended neighboorhood loop that we used to do. There were lots of big puddles and water streaming downhill, but it was not all that bad. If I hadn't done the extended loop, I would have gotten done before the rain started up again. During the last ten minutes or so, it started to rain pretty heavily again. About 200 meters from my car I saw a bright flash of lightning. Lucky for me I was practically back to safety. I got to my car as quickly as possible and got inside it. I think that I did about 8 miles. I didn't use my watch, but I was out for just under an hour. I may have started off kind of slowly but I definitely was moving at a decent clip by the time I finished.
Tomorrow I will be more productive.
Posted by Blondie at March 28, 2005 08:02 PM