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July 10, 2008
lightening funnel
We have had freakishly weird weather this summer.
Normally we have thunderstorms in mid to late August, but this we have had, well too many to count already. When I say too many to count, I can count that high, I just can't remember, I like to think I am so smart that my brain is full and only the really important information, like who is doing who in celebrity-land is retained.
Just believe me when I say lots, like a couple a week, enough to make you build a straw bale house and invite Eco-Al over, or maybe just contemplate it.
We had one at the track the other night. When I got there, this huge menacing storm cloud a few miles south was moving towards us. Then I glanced at the track, metal stands all the way around. It was like a giant metal funnel that I was going to run around playing chicken with a lightening bolt.
Since I'm not a lover of speedwork and don't want to die by electricity surging through my body, my plan was the first flash of lightening or roll of thunder and I was outta there.
The rain started as we began our first 800m interval. By 100m my shoes where squishy, by 200m my contacts were floating around my eyes, I had to squint to keep them from popping out.
The storm passed over without any lightening by the end of the second 800m. I would of have sacrificed a contact or two to have kept it raining, it was refreshing. When it stopped the heat and humidity came right back. The last 800m was brutal.
800m - 4.09
800m - 4.06
800m - 4.08
800m - 4.12
800m - 4.16 ... it would of been 4.30 but I picked it up on the last 200m so I felt like death when I finished
I wasn't at all happy with those splits, until I looked back at the same workout this time last year and my fastest was 4.22. It went straight to my head, I am awesome!
Posted by Ali at July 10, 2008 10:16 AM
Comments
Yes. You are totally awesome!
Posted by: P.O.M. at July 10, 2008 1:38 PM
Yes. You are totally awesome!
Posted by: P.O.M. at July 10, 2008 1:38 PM
I'll second that, wait third that. I like running in the rain.
Posted by: Bridget at July 10, 2008 3:12 PM
Those are great splits!! and in the rain too!
Posted by: cheryl at July 10, 2008 5:59 PM
Great job. Love how you pushed yourself on the last one. Well done.
Posted by: D10 at July 11, 2008 7:31 AM
Great job. Love how you pushed yourself on the last one. Well done.
Posted by: D10 at July 11, 2008 7:31 AM
Good work! Don't worry, the pain will be worth it!
Posted by: Marci at July 11, 2008 1:34 PM
Good work! Don't worry, the pain will be worth it!
Posted by: Marci at July 11, 2008 1:34 PM
Good session - you've improved! Better to feel like death than to be dead.
Posted by: Ewen at July 11, 2008 8:29 PM