I finally get to report that all of my runs this week were performed in above freezing temperatures! Though I must admit that I'd take dry-and-35 (Tuesday morning) over rainy-and-48 any day, which we encountered today. The plan was to do a course similar to last week, with Lisa doing 18 and me making sure I beat Lisa back to the cars since I'm only doing 16. I checked the weather and saw the forecast of rain, but I tried to use my optimistic meterologist skills to justify that it wouldn't rain during our run. It was dry when we started and not five minutes into it as we were crossing the 16th Street Bridge, I said, "I think it might be raining, but its hard to tell." Shortly thereafter it became more evident and soon enough it was clear that it was most definitely raining. We hopped, skipped and leaped over puddles all the way to hand dryers at Station Square and Lisa attempted to dry out her shirt. (They ARE really powerful hand dryers, but it was really a lost cause.) At this point I suggested that maybe we call it (we were seven miles in and it would be 2-ish [maybe?] miles back to the cars). Probably a good decision as we were soaked to the bone and though the rain stopped as soon as we made our decision, there was no way we would dry out over the course of the remainder of the run and the wind was a little chilly. Hope to get in some more miles tomorrow to make up for what I missed today.
Highlight of the week - The runner (under cover and out of the rain at PNC Park) who clapped for us
Difficult part of the week - I was actually pretty sore after last week's long run, but that encouraged me to do a short little run with Fresca the next day and then some good stretching.
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This whole description had me laughing. What a miserable run! But glad we stuck it out as long as we did!
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