Session - medium long run
Time / weather - 5pm / 27*c when I started, 19*c when I finished; thunderstorm from the 15km mark
Distance - 21km
Time taken - 1hr 53.41min
Av pace - 5.25min/km
A much better run - while I still felt tired I didn't feel like I was plodding along. The black clouds were gathering which probably spurred me on as well but at the 15km mark the rain pelted down, and the thunder and lightning show began. The rain was so heavy at times that I couldn't see very far in front of me and much of the cycle path was covered with puddles of water. I was soaked and my socks and shoes were absolutely saturated - I was squelching as I ran. I was worried about my ipod though it is encased in neoprene and plastic and this protected it sufficiently. However I should have been more concerned about my sunnies - I had sat these on top of my cap as the rain pelted down - there really wasn't much need for them. When I got home I discovered that I no longer had my sunnies - damn. So someone out there will score well today - a good pair of sunnies lying somewhere along the cycle path. I did retrace my steps for a short way but the weather really discouraged me from continuing, besides I was getting very hungry.
About Me
- CJ
- My favourite quote: When the world says "give up", Hope whispers "try it one more time" - anon. A few of my favourite things (in no particular order): family. friends. running. coffee. chocolate. cooking. eating. macarons. Major running/triathlon achievements to date: 1xIronman Triathlon - 2004; 8xCanberra marathons - 2001 - 03, 2005-09; 1xSydney marathon - 2005; 4xBush Capital 25kms - 2005-06; 2008; 2010 2xBulls Head Challenge - 2005-06; 2xSix Foot Track marathon 2007; 2009 1xGold Coast marathon - 2008
11 comments:
Sounds like you should have been wearing a wetsuit!
Sorry to hear your sunnies were swept away in the torrential rain; they are probably floating along somewhere around Canberra.
Gnome lost his sunnies on a run recently and was annoyed. Now he's happy because the new pair fit better:-)
Hope you have a spare rair of runners for tomorrow.
TA
Oh no, what a pain about the sunnies. So easy to do though, I'm always sitting mine on top of my cap and they've fallen off more than once.
At least you had a good run aside from that. You must feel great backing up from Sunday's half so well.
Too bad about the sunnies! Not much use in a downpour :-)
It is getting so close now! It is really exciting... I had my massage yesterday and all is good :-) I hope your legs are recovering well!
bugger! sorry to hear about the sunnies - what a pain. I really admire your running through the rain though!
E
Nice run through the rain CJ - lots of people would be very happy to run a half in that time in a race.
You were going that fast your sunnies probably got scared and jumped off ;-)
You're living on the wrong side of town. No thunderstorms down here!
That's quite the run! Sorry to hear about the sunnies. Maybe they'll be somewhere along the path next time you run!
I can relate to this run - I have been doing a lot of rain running as of late. Wow, your marathon is just around the corner.
Sunnies? What's that?
Hope the ipod is fine.
Sounds like a nice adventure, exciting!
i did exactly the same thing, i was about 10k i when the storm hit. You can't get an wetter than i was, luckily i got a tail wind.
It is epic running in a storm like that one.
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