10 x 10 #9: This sport is not for the impatient

RUN 10 miles in 1:33, with plyometrics roughly every mile. And rain. LOTS of rain. 

No bike commute, still raining and was tired of being cold and wet. 

And reference back to Friday's run in which I had the broken water fountain and got dehydrated...
But like TV said about yesterday's rain, a quote from a movie : It's fine Scottish weather we're having. The rain is falling straight down... [Braveheart, I later found!]

I woke up a lot over night. Sometimes to pee and sometimes because the sound of rain splashing on pavement and in the gutters gets me worried about house problems and leaks. And I like the sound of rain, so I enjoyed that. At one point though around 3am I couldn't fall back asleep and realized I was vaguely hunger. While I dislike eating in the middle of the night (hard to sleep with food to digest!) this did seem to help. The alarm was only an hour away anyway.

Since I don't watch the forecast closely I was surprised again with rain. Two days in a row now. And this was heavy and still strong at 545am when I rolled out the door. I love running in rain, but I didn't appreciate just how much we'd received! So it was ironic (or ironical, as used in the podcast) that while trying to fall back asleep a few hours ago I was watching Weather Channel videos of the Louisiana flooding, dog rescues and cars swept from roads. And yesterday a former neighbor posted about a forecast of 4-7" of rain, I just laughed. Oops. 

Immediately I was soaked but thankfully not cold. There was no hope even in the first block of keeping my shoes even remotely dry so I happily splashed in puddles. As I ran by the neighborhood track I did my first plyo -- 2 laps with sprints in the straightaways. Well, as sprinty as I could be on 80+ miles, with a camelbak bouncing, and with literally inches of rain on the track. After finished at the track, I ran by the retaining wall along the sidewalk as saw the sub-track drain pouring into the sidewalk. A few blocks later, a gutter-fed water access in the sidewalk was bubbling up in a fountain of water. Streets and curbs were full, ponds formed in parking lots, and it was still coming down strong. I should look up just how much rain we did get today....based on a new site, turns out my old neighbor was about right. Ugh.  Oh well! 

Splish-splash to TGP for my second plyo of creek jumps. There were a little too easy today. Next up was jump squats, then lunge hops, then box/bench jumps at the water lily garden. I'm surprised at how easy the box jumps felt, only did 5, but no rib or hip pain! Turn around to get back, mindful of my limited time before I had to get to work. On the return, I tried split squats (failed because bench and tree too wet, kept slipping), leg lifts to a gate, and hill intervals. Time to get home, whoop I'm 90 miles DONE!! 

Still feeling good, just one more day and I've confirmed that I'll run part of it with LC. 

While doing hill repeats in late mile 7, I finally gave up on my Yurbuds. The entire run the right one kept threatening to fall out, kept shoving it back in. Earlier in the challenge I decided I hated the Yurbuds as the right one kept falling out. After a few days I learned how to use them better, then spent a few days not using them as I was running social. Today I decided I might hate them again. So as I'm slogging up the 3rd hill bound, pulling the Yurbud out and cussing it for the distraction, and running out of energy, SK says "this sport is not for the impatient" and it was like he was talking to me! So I calmed down, shrugged it off, and finished!

Only to walk the dog in the rain, and she hates run. Then a shower, then upon realizing it's STILL raining I decided to drive to work. I knew from the run that a lot of mud and tree debris had washed into the streets, potentially dangerous. But also I just wanted to stay DRY.  Ha! I lazed out.

ETA, just minutes after posting, I was looking again at the news site with the rainfall levels and just read that the "rain is expected to intensity and continue into late Tuesday". Finally I'll be prepared for the weather.