Believe to Achieve

Okay so I heard the weather report last night and decided to just sleep through the dreaded storm.  I also heard a canyon dweller say something like "mother nature is going to prove something to us" with all this snow and then a sudden thaw that would cause floods like 1983.  I was like what does mother nature have to prove?  We can't stop her no matter what.  So.....at 640 am I awake to NO storm.  I see lurking clouds---stratus ones-- but hey NO snow currently.  But I stay in my warm bed 20 minutes longer pondering my options. What if I wait until 915am when the kids are all at school and I get this ferocious storm to run in?  Not happening.  So I bundled up and headed for the door HOPING to stay ahead of mother nature.  Yah right, I made it a 1/2 mile when high winds and SNOW started to fly.  Yup.  I was doomed to be running in a storm.  I had 14 miles planned but no direction in particular.  I decided I needed some hill work so I headed up towards Farm rd to the mouth of the canyon.  I basically ran 7 miles rolling uphill and 7 miles rolling downhill.   When I got to the canyon I decided to run up it until 7 miles and then turn around and take the same route back.  I ran 1.5 miles up the canyon.    In the canyon  things got really good, AS if WINDS and SNOW weren't enough---  HIGH WINDS and PELTING HAIL made it all that more SPECIAL.  I was thinking hey, "nice I have a tail wind on the uphill" but then I thought "but dang I don't want a headwind on the downhill" and That's when MOTHER NATURE RESPONDED,  "okay so she isn't thankful for her tailwind, fine!!"  and within a split second INTENSE HEADWIND while I ran up the canyon.  It was like minnie twisters in the air, swirling changing directions at will.  I would charge thru them only to come upon another fierce wind pocket.  "OH YAH!! well I will take what you are giving me and just run as quick as I can and get out of this wind tunnel!!"  As I got back to the mouth of the canyon, CUMULUS CLOUDS and a SPECK of BLUE SKY in the valley.  AHHHHH!!  It was still  quite windy  there coming up and over that steep hill outside the canyon but it let up my last 3 miles ever so nicely until I headed west again towards my house.  AP for 14 miles= 7:39.  Splits :8:48, 8:28, 8:25, 8:37,  7:59,  7:40,  8:14 (thanks MN),  7:09 ( I can't even go fast, if the wind was a little swifter I would have been BLOWN into the even SWIFTER RIVER in the canyon), 7:35  (the steep canyon wall climb), 7:08,  6:41,  6:37,  6:55, 6:56.  DONE.  As soon as I walked indoors I started to MELT.  It was less than 29 degrees on my run.  HELLO,  IT  IS APRIL!!!!  btw no fuel--- water or gels etc... on this run.  No stops.