Today I woke up to a rainy morning. Watching rain coming down rather heavily, I started to ponder if I should move today’s run indoor. But how I hate running on treadmill. It’s uninspiring and absolutely takes the fun out of running.
Plus today I would be challenging myself to a 1 hour and 35 minutes run. I couldn’t see myself finishing the entire run on a treadmill. I went online to look for answer to my dilemma. On Active.com’s forums, I found a discussion concerning running in the rain. It seemed that rainy day runs are good way to prepare runners for running conditions they can not predict in the day of actual run event. What a relief. I started looking forward to my rainy day run.
With this rain, Greenlake had much less people. The rain stopped during my second lap. What’s left was the overcast and windy weather which was perfect for a long run. I completed 11.2 miles in 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Happy day! I’ll have a bit of wine tonight to celebrate my yet another new record.
Living in the Seattle area, Smelly is a user experience designer by day, a running, cycling, gardening type of girl when she wasn't wearing the designer hat.
