Tuesday Two-fer

BIKE 1hr and about 18 miles, 8 min "on" intervals
RUN 29 mins and 3 miles, commute home

This is one of those days in which it almost didn't happen. The training, I mean. The plan was to get up at the usual 4:45am, be on the bike at 5:30, off the bike at 6:30, and done running by 7:30, shower-eat-walk-dog and out the door by 8:30am. The best of plans...

...until my doggie wanted "out" at 1:38 and I had trouble falling back to sleep. When the first alarm went off I didn't get up. The backup alarm at 5:23 did wake me up, although I didn't get out of bed. Hmmm...It's OK it's kinda the off season, right?

I was on the bike by 6:28, dressed to run by 7:35....and I look at the weather. Light rain and 39F! What!? Suddenly the combination of poor weather and late schedule confuses me. I try the mental math and fail. I decide to shower now and run later. I can run during a break at work or run home at the end of the day.

By the end of the day, I was getting hungry and thirsty. When I dressed to leave, it was raining again. I can't complain about how pretty it was to see from work--the bands of rain falling over the east as the sun set and the sky was changing colors. The temp was 60F--lovely!

Then as I'm walking to the car, I see the wind whipping the trees and driving the rain into the windows. I start having doubts. Then I start having the HTFU talk--It's only 30-freaking-minutes! But it's windy...HTFU...but it's wet...and maybe cold...OH HTFU.

Happily I did run home, and unlike many of my late afternoon runs this one felt great. The rain was light and transient. At one moment there was light rain falling with the sun peaking through some clouds. The rain drops glittered as they fell. To think I almost missed this!