Good run in the rain

How good was the run in the rain today? Two sherku worth!

The rain was warm and mingled with the sweat. The thoughts found their way almost like the river-lets of water along the roads.

How was your run today?

first 100

Completed my run in the rain today, updated my spreadsheet and realized I had just completed 100 miles this calendar year! Woot Woot!

102.5 total over 26 days for a 3.9 miles/day average.

My run in the rain was a good one. I have always considered myself a "mudder" and have run some of my better times in the rain.

Because I feel more at one with the world?

Because I concentrate better?

Because I had a good workout on the track this Thursday, setting me up to run fully a minute per mile better over this same route than I did last Sunday?

Whatever the reason, and maybe it is a combination of the above, I will take it.

The feeling after is good! The runners high is worth running for!

In memory only

I choose a different six mile route to run today. I had called this the MelDivas 6 as it used to start downtown at the MelDivas Coffeeshop but it has been closed for almost 2 years now. Fortunately, Cafe Dolce has opened right across the street so the route mileages still apply. So MelDivas is in memory only.

It was raining as I started and raining a little as I finished but most of the run was without the rain.

The other son John also left his shoe

The other son John also left his shoe, originally uploaded by shersteve.

I found one shoe the other day on Union St in Franklin.

Running this morning, I saw one along RT 140 but I was in stride and didn't want to stop. I turned the corner onto King St heading on the home stretch and saw this second shoe. It made a pair with the one on RT 140. I had to stop for this one now.

If CSI: Franklin were involved, I could speculate that the boy, strapped into his car seat, sitting by the back window of an SUV, playing with his shoe managed to take one off and either accidentally or intentionally it went out the window. This one on King St was the first. As he realized what he had done, he went to take off the second one and tossed that also. That was the second shoe along RT 140.

By the time, they arrived where they were going, the mother was left with a son with no shoes and no idea where they went.

I had a good run avoiding the rain today.

Three shoes in less than a week? Creative kids or inattentive parents?

clothing dripping to dry

Running in the rain is a progressive resistance workout, originally uploaded by shersteve.

I realized that running in the rain is a progressive resistance workout. As I got out of my wet clothing, I realized how much it weighed. That was a lot of water it held, as evidenced by the dark shadow on the floor, the puddle the rain left as it dripped from the clothing.

It was a good 6 mile run today. One of my favorite routes. The rolling hills along Pleasant St provide a short slope up, incentive to maintain stride, hold the pace, keep the rhythm going. Then the road flattens out a bit, allowing for a brief respite before slopping up again. The slope and flat pattern occurs about four times, then you turn into downtown where is rises again and then on King St the last slope before home.

The rain didn't bother me. Didn't really notice it while running other than keeping watch for the road puddles to avoid.

A nice warm shower after getting out of the wet clothes gave me a good start to the day!