Since the temperature reached 90 degrees today and it was quite humid, Andy and I chose to run at a later time, 9 p.m. to be exact. After work, we went for a walk, exploring and attempting to find the river from my house. Well, we found it and ended up on almost a 3 1/2 mile walk. After eating and catching up on the Minnesota Twins, we got ready to run.
Today’s run was 4 miles, so we decided to run up Lexington Avenue to the beginning of Como Park. I checked the radar before we left, and “sweet, all storms went north and south of us.” We got about 1/4 of a mile to our turnaround point when Andy commented on how dark it had gotten. We decided it wasn’t that much further to the turnaround, so kept truckin’. (by the way, the beginning of the run was somewhat plagued with very tight hamstrings) An eighth of a mile later and we can see it starting to sprinkle ever so lightly. We turn around there.
It sprinkled a little. Lightening, a little. Each quarter of a mile the weather steadily grew worse. I think we both panicked a little because of frequent lightening and heavy rainfall, so by the time we reached University Avenue, we had sprinted a majority of it. Another half mile to Marshall Avenue, and I couldn’t believe it could rain heavier. Within a quarter mile of the end, it started to hail. The rain concluded soon thereafter. Figures.
But hey, you can’t say I didn’t finish this day strong!
On a different note, I seem to be able to maintain a faster pace as the training days go by. Sometimes it wears me out sooner, but I may actually be building strength and stamina.
