7 in between rain drops

Distance 7
Time 65:07

I went a little faster than usual today, partially because I feel I need to get some tempo runs in before the marathon and partially because I was running in between waves of rain.

Yesterday my dad asked me, "how do you run in the rain." At first I was thinking, "the same way I run in the sun, or under the stars, or in wind: 87 strides per minute and very slow." But then I started to think about his question and it's not a bad question. It's been my experience that, more often than not, rain traditionally comes in waves. Usually, a band of storms will blow through and then there will be a gap before the next one hits and I'll attempt to get my run in between those gaps. If the rain is very hard, I'll stay inside and use Mary's clothes line to exercise.

Sometimes I'm more successful than others at timing my run, and today I was very lucky (especially since weather.com predicted a 70% chance of steady rain at 5am when I prepped for the run last night). It was obvious when I started my run that the rain had recently stopped. I cranked out my run and shortly after I stopped, it started to rain again. So, even though it will rain for most of the day, I stayed dry during my run. I also realize that, now that I've put this down on "paper," it's going to be very wet for the next 5 weeks. Actually, let me amend that statement a little, it will be very wet until I drop a few hundred bucks on rain gear and then we'll get sun and unseasonably high temperatures. Such is life.

Now get back to work...