Hello everybody!

Well...I had to go ignore Twocat's rule about no running in the rain, tonight.  Because I'm cutting back a bit this week to freshen the legs up for my 10K on Saturday, I drove to the middle school track instead of running...which ended up being a very good decision.  As I pulled into the parking lot, I noticed the sky was looking pretty dark.  I had heard there were storms coming...but I thought they said later, tonight.  I didn't have too much to do--1.5 mile warm up--1 x 800--2x400--1.5 mile cool down--so I started running.  It started to sprinkle and the wind picked up...in fact, it was so hard that I had to take my hat off, so the wind wouldn't take it away...I like my hat.  I did my 1.5 mile warm up in 11:27 and was getting ready for my 800, when I heard the soccer ref, over on the soccer field, blow his whistle and say, "That's it!  Game over.  Leave the field and go directly to your cars!"  Hmm...well, I continued with my 800 as the rain started coming down pretty hard and finished it in 2:46.91.  Way too slow.  I recovered for 1:30 and did a 400 in 1:20.30...as it started raining harder...a lot harder.  I took off for my next 400 in a downpour and small hail and did it in 1:15.94.  Then I headed over to the side of the porta-potie to get out of the hail.  As soon as the hail quit, I took off for my 1.5 mile cool down...and then another wave of hail came through...so I ended up getting 5 laps on the track and figured it was about 400 meters to the car so I took off...finished that "2400" meters in 10:15...and I don't think that last 400 to the car was short.  So...I finished the workout with 4 total miles and a very wet ride home.

Okay--that's it.  Gotta go!  See ya!

went night swimming for first midnight madness swim of the year full of silver bubbles as Mr.. Moon approaches a fullness portending many more to come through the rest of the week, and summer.  yippee