Ask and thow shalt receive
First Boston High Performance meet of the year down and three to go. A storm was brewing as I stepped out on my 24 minute warm-up. The whole time I was thinking that right at the gun the winds would pick up and the sun would go away. I missed my guess because not only did both start happening, but the rain started to drive as well making sure that any effort would be more mental than physical in nature. The funny thing is I didn't mind too much because my past 3 workouts had been in much the same conditions. I ran a 8:38 going through the mile in 4:32 and trying to pick it up. I was all alone at that point though and it was, as Kevin said "tough sledding." The wind from the 100m to the 250m was absolutely lousey. I took off around a few guys and never caught the two guys in front of me. Oh well. First meet of the year and it was not a total disaster.
Today I did a pseudo long run at lunch with 68 minutes through ford's folly. A little history here. Henry Ford owned all the land in western sudbury and eastern Marlboro along rte 20. He saw a stream and tried to turn it into a lake so he built a dam. Unfortunately for him, the stream is intermittant and only runs in the spring, after that it just becomes a trickle when it rains. Hence the name, Ford's Folly. I guess people just wanted to make the guys seem stupid. All he did was revolutionize the industrial world and bring automobile's to the masses.
That's all I got.