Thunder And Lightning? Sure… Why Not?

• Posted: August 15, 2008
• |
• Author: Shéamus
• |
• Filed under: Workouts
• |
• Tags: No tags set for this entry.

Okay - I’ve done the sun. Done a lot of sun. Done my fair share of wind. Had a little bit of rain.

What about a full-on storm? Yep, now I can scratch that one off of the list.

Couldn’t run this morning because we went to Memphis Zoo instead. Highly recommend a visit if you get the chance - the Komodo dragon in particular is extremely impressive - and we didn’t leave until about 4pm. Pretty much as soon as we decided to go the heavens opened up, big time, and down it all poured. And then some. Throw in loads of thunder and some magnificent forked lightning and you have a pretty feisty old storm. It was like a monsoon.

I decided to wait it out a bit. I had some pizza for dinner - and by some, I of course stupidly mean about six slices and bread sticks - and when picking that up I dashed into Walmart to pick up a cap. Any cap. I wasn’t going to find nor was I looking for something specific to running - basically I just needed a shield.

My options, however, were somewhat limited. Not in numbers - Walmart must have had a hundred different caps - but in style. Thankfully, I cannot pull off a trucker or NASCAR cap, and I don’t really want to be seen in something that has Coors Lite written across the front in huge letters and a beer bottle opener attached on the side (handy as that might be). So, after some ums and ahs, I had to settle for a very dark green cap that came labelled as ‘Ireland’. Not ideal, but fairly appropriate - I am, in case you hadn’t guessed, half Irish, after all.

So, back home, pizza in my (bulging) belly, and finally the rain looks to have eased a bit, so off I go. I threw on an extra t-shirt for warmth and wore slightly thicker socks than normal. Within about half a mile, I realised this was a pretty big mistake - it wasn’t cold at all. In fact, it was incredibly humid. Miserably so.

My second mistake was ignoring the contents of my stomach. I simply had not let enough time elapse to be undertaking any kind of physical activity, let alone running. Luckily - and I realise I’m now boring and grossing you out with the regularity of this discourse - I passed a Walgreens on the way and that provided some sweet, sweet relief.

Things improved after that a little. The rain eased off even while the light show continued - which was actually pretty cool - and ultimately I decided that the effort that went into my $10 cap was probably wasted.

Splits:

I’ve already done seven miles more this week than last and have a day in hand tomorrow - I should total out around 34-35 miles for this week, and I’m going to try a long run on Sunday in an attempt to hit 42.5 or so next week. After that, I’ll move up to fifty.

• (6) Comments
• Permalink
• RSS 2.0
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
•