But its raining!

So how do you start writing a blog post…for me it's about having something to write about, quite often during a run a subject heading pops into my head or an interesting question (dependant on your viewpoint) creeps into my brain.  During the run the foundations of my blog take shape, then it gets beaten into submission and we end up with a blog post. 

Why am I  telling you this, well you may have noticed that there was no blog post in October; I was running and even ran my fastest half marathon in quite some time in Bilbao so why no blog?  Well there were a number of things but the biggest was the uncertainty of my previous contract; I won't bore you with the details but there were 3 weeks of uncertainty and a lot of my free-thinking time was taken up by all that noise. 

Anyway we are through it all now, currently looking for my next contract and wondering where I will end up next, which means there is plenty of time to think, run and write....which leads me to the subject line of this actual blog.

Imagine if you can, you are rudely awoken at 4am in the morning with the rain bashing against the window and it sounds like it's settled in for the duration, your training plan says 10 miles and your alarm set for 5:30…joy! You drift off back to broken sleep periodically you wake up and hear the rain, check your watch and start to contemplate your life choices…..

Well that was me last Thursday morning, as my alarm went off at 5:30am I lay there thinking I have to run BUT IT'S RAINING, and so the bargaining started between brain and body;

• Body: why not go later it may stop raining later,
• Brain: quickly checks the weather, there is a yellow weather warning for your area, no it isn't going anyway
• Body: you could go tomorrow  
• Brain ou have made plans to go out with Liz before you head of to Wales for a girls weekend
• Body: you could do 5 now and 5 later 
• Brain: great get wet twice…genius 
• Body: you could not do it 
• Brain: it's on my plan what heresy is this
• Brain:  get up buttercup and put on your big girl pants it is only rain, you won’t melt or shrink! 

Needless to say I did get up and ran 9.50miles  in 1:26 in the end so 95% of my plan was completed, oh and the rain stopped around 1:10 in my run, so I should have gone later!!!

Postscript, its Monday and a very similar conversation happened this morning, this time I did delay my run till around 12:00.  The sky had been clearing from the rain earlier, it was looking windy but there was some sun earlier! First, 4.5 of my 6-mile run was dry and breezy..then it happened a few spots, to begin with, and just before I was into my last mile the heavens opened and I was soaked through the skin....and all I could hear was some faint giggling.