"We were halfway there when the rain came down of a day I ay I ay and she asked me up to her flat downtown of a fine soft day I ay
And I ask you friend,what's a fella to do cause her hair is black and her eyes are blue so I took her hand and I gave her a twirl and I lost my heart to a Galway Girl"
Galway Girl-Steve Earle.
Sweet jaysus,when the choice of foot wear is flats or flippers you know it's damp.....seriously I thought I'd have to develop feckin' gills the way it's been raining since Friday!!!
When the AOL Weather says there's an 80% chance of rain all day you know even the luck of the Irish in the lead up to St Patrick's Day isn't probably gonna help you get a run in and so it turned out.
After a long dry spell during the early afternoon I got myself mentally ready to hit Franklin Field for 5x1,000m repeats....however at 3.40pm as I grabbed my running clothes out of my bag on the way to get changed I saw the rain cascading down...so much for that I thought.....upon leaving work at 3.50pm the rain had eased off...should I go back and grab my bag and head to Franklin Field???
Imagine my horror when the el emerged from underground at 40th St{7 blocks from Franklin Field} and no rain......bollocks!!!!
Not only had I pushed back my track workout till tomorrow but I'd left my bag w/ my running gear at work.....so now I couldn't even do an easy run at 6,8,or 9 miles.....gobshite!!
However as I sit here now listening to cars driving through the surface rain I can see that oh so feckin annoying on again/off again rain....make yer feckin mind up will ye,rain or don't rain but please stop pissballin around{sidebar I'm watching Liverpool batter Portsmouth 4.1 in the Premiership it's.....raining goals.....Liverpool are raining on Pompey's parade and since Pompey are going down to the Championship I guess that's the end of their Premiership...reign.....see what happens when I can't run!!!}
Glass half full today's DNS may actually work in my favour,obviously Friday's 2 miler is the focal point of my week so w/ a bit of rearranging of the old schedule and a look at the 7 day forecast being oh so favourable I could do the following:
Tuesday 3x1,000m a bit of speed work but at a reduced rate than the 5x1,000m I had planned for today,Wednesday easy 9 miler,Thursday easy 4 miler,Friday 2 mile race,Saturday 9 miler,Sunday 10 miler....40 mile week.
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Hey, thanks for the comment on my blog. Good insight and perspective. Lots to think about for me! Thanks.
Lam,
as always great to read your blog,great question and clearly based on the comments you got alot of runners have thoughts on the age old question,when I began running in high school way back when{76}there was talk about the Olympics and maybe I'd be good enough w/ the right training etc...34 years later I'm not sure I'd still be running now if I'd gone the professional route,yeah maybe Moscow,Los Angeles,Seoul....but the 64 billion dollar question would I still love the sport now?
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