AHAHAHA, OH WEATHER you are so fickle!
So I've only been running once this week (Monday) and I've been putting off going again since... Wednesday, so I really needed to go today. It rained all last night, but when I woke up it was pretty sunny. So of course, I put off thinking about going running until noon... when it started raining again. So I spent the next three hours doing other things as it rained lightly on and off, I kept waiting for it to clear up. The rain let up for a little while at 3, and at 3:30 I figured it was go now or run in the dark. So I left.
On my run, I met an interesting fellow runner and we chatted for a bit (while running) and he eventually offered me the name of another guy who was hiring programmers! Cool! I will look into it later. *cough NOTE TO SELF*
Anyways it was super windy along the coast, at one point the wind blew me three steps sideways, changed direction and forced me three steps in the other direction, hahaha! It started drizzling when I was about 1/3 of the way back (I ran 3.5 miles out, then turned around). When I was only two blocks away from home it started raining hard. I waited under a tree for a few minutes to see if it would lighten up. IT TURNED INTO GUSHING. The sky was dumping rain. So I figured I would either go now, or get soaked standing there. In those last two blocks, I went from soggy on the edges, to completely drenched. My windbreaker, top, sportsbra, pants, shoes, socks, EVERYTHING was wet. I cracked open my front door (yay for covered porches) and had to ask my housemate Andrew to bring me towel.
Anyways, my first instinct was HOT SHOWER NOW. I was about to step in when I looked down at the white bathmat and wondered, "where'd that red stuff come from?". Then I looked at my sock. Half of it was a dark rust red. So YAY I RAN UNTIL MY FEET BLED :D (er... toe in this case)
Moral: (1) Run when you have the good weather, and (2) those *slightly* tight but otherwise good running shoes when wet WILL MAKE YOUR FEET BLEED.
And one other observation of the day: putting whey protein powder in milk is stupid. Whey (mostly casein) is the protein in milk, so you're adding MORE MILK PROTEIN to milk; and also, IT TURNS INTO A NASTY SLUSHIE of sickly sweet chunky chalky goo.
On my run, I met an interesting fellow runner and we chatted for a bit (while running) and he eventually offered me the name of another guy who was hiring programmers! Cool! I will look into it later. *cough NOTE TO SELF*
Anyways it was super windy along the coast, at one point the wind blew me three steps sideways, changed direction and forced me three steps in the other direction, hahaha! It started drizzling when I was about 1/3 of the way back (I ran 3.5 miles out, then turned around). When I was only two blocks away from home it started raining hard. I waited under a tree for a few minutes to see if it would lighten up. IT TURNED INTO GUSHING. The sky was dumping rain. So I figured I would either go now, or get soaked standing there. In those last two blocks, I went from soggy on the edges, to completely drenched. My windbreaker, top, sportsbra, pants, shoes, socks, EVERYTHING was wet. I cracked open my front door (yay for covered porches) and had to ask my housemate Andrew to bring me towel.
Anyways, my first instinct was HOT SHOWER NOW. I was about to step in when I looked down at the white bathmat and wondered, "where'd that red stuff come from?". Then I looked at my sock. Half of it was a dark rust red. So YAY I RAN UNTIL MY FEET BLED :D (er... toe in this case)
Moral: (1) Run when you have the good weather, and (2) those *slightly* tight but otherwise good running shoes when wet WILL MAKE YOUR FEET BLEED.
And one other observation of the day: putting whey protein powder in milk is stupid. Whey (mostly casein) is the protein in milk, so you're adding MORE MILK PROTEIN to milk; and also, IT TURNS INTO A NASTY SLUSHIE of sickly sweet chunky chalky goo.