Notes
UGLY! Woke up ready to go, but ominous clouds were looming. Sure enough, as soon as I stepped out the door the rain began. Went back inside for 30mins until the shower passed, then set off.
Bad gear day, my rain jacket was too hot to wear so I tied it around my waist, but the knot wouldn't hold, earphones kept falling out, and not even close to any kind of comfortable rhythm for the first 7k.
Finally found some kind of comfort and enjoyed the super mega tailwind in my back, but saw pitch black clouds rolling into town and had a bad feeling of what I'd be in for on the return 17k.
The rain started hammering my back at about 12k, threw the jacket on and sailed on the wind up to the turnaround in an ok split.
After that, everything went shithouse.
The wind was actually blowing me back and to the right, IU really had to lean hard into the typhoon with my head down and just kept putting one step in front of the next.
By about 27k, it was a f&*king joke, I screamed at the sky to give me more and just forgot about leg pain and just gave it hard, soaked to the bone, heavy clothes slopping around, shoes squelching, pumping hard.
As I was 1k from home, coming back over Asahibashi, cracks of blus opened up in the sky and all I could do was laugh and throw the double fingers skyward.
Anyway, done deal, didn't expect a neg. split coming home after such a battle with the elements, and really surprised at being under 3hrs.
I been waiting for this beer all week long....
0 ~ 17k (1hr 31mins)
17k ~ 34k (1hr 26mins)