Another attempted tempo run. 5:03 am, 38-35° F, 92% humidity, winds 11 NNW, steady rain changing to snow. That was beyond miserable. I knew I was in trouble when I woke up and I could hear the weather. I know that Snoqualmie runs in rain all the time, but I'm not used to it and I don't have good rain gear. I don't have rain gear at all. My training plan said an 8K-15K tune-up race for a total of 9-13 miles. Not having a race to go to, I planned to do 3 miles warmup, then an 8 mile tempo run, then 2 miles cooldown, for a total of 13. I managed the 3 miles warmup, then 6 miles at a hard effort (not quite my tempo pace), and then I cut my losses and ran slower home for 0.64 miles. I might have been able to stick with the original plan if I hadn't been soaked to the skin and freezing to death. I'm still shaking so hard I can hardly type even though I put on dry clothes. And there is a pile of seriously soaked clothes on my bathroom floor. I would take a hot shower right now, but I think my boys just used all the hot water. Since I did manage more than 8K at a hard effort and more than 9 miles, I think I'll call it good. Rain unties shoes. I've never had my shoes come untied while running before, but they came untied several times this morning, and by the end my fingers were too numb to tie them well and I ended up running home with one shoe untied. Besides stopping several times to tie my shoes, I had to stop for several minutes at one point to try to straighten out things at home. I was unable to drive to seminary today, so I told my son to walk, but if it was raining, to wake up his older brother and have his older brother drive him. I also warned the older brother last night that he might be called upon to drive to seminary. At about 6:15 I got a text from seminary son saying he wouldn't be able to wake up his brother and so he wasn't going to seminary. So I stopped and stood there in the rain and called older son's cell phone twice. No answer. I called seminary son's cell phone twice. No answer. I called the home phone twice. Seminary son answered the second call. I asked him if he had even tried to wake up his brother and he said no. So I told him to do that. I guess it all worked out, because older son did drive seminary son to seminary.
I'm afraid the weather's not going to be any better tomorrow. AP: 8:55. Splits: 10:09, 10:14, 10:08, 8:08, 8:38, 8:21, 8:08, 8:02, 8:13, 0.64 @ 9:11.
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