Today was the 6 mile run. This will mark the farthest I'll have ever run at once (I think?) I believe cross country in high school we ran 5, but not 6. Today I didn't accomplish that goal of running 6 miles straight either. Lemme tell you why. For this weekend I've decided to try a juice cleanse mostly due to a co-worker raving about it all week in my office, but also because I've been eating horribly on vacation (all-you-can-eat cake buffet was only a single meal of the crazy indulging) and been vacationing A LOT. This has resulted in my clothes being a little tighter then I'd prefer. Since I'm in Amsterdam, I cannot just go out any buy new clothes without breaking the bank, SO I'm going to just stick with what I've got.
If you've read my posts before, you know I struggle with running in the morning due to hunger. Weeeelllll 48 hours of just juice is not conducive to that, so I decided to run first thing in the morning. This would have been great, except it was/is scheduled to rain ALL weekend. I get outside about 10 minutes after waking up to find it's misting out. "Super, this will keep me cool on my 6 mile run" I trade my sun glasses for my sexy "safety goggles" which I wear to bike when it isn't sunny and start running.
Less than a mile it starts to drizzle. I congratulate myself on my practical glasses which are keeping the rain out of my eyes. The drizzle suddenly turns to downpour. I duck under a tree and stop my watch, knowing that Amsterdam rains are not long events. Except when they are. I remember to weather.com saying it would rain all weekend. Crap. Before long, my tree is no longer keeping me dry. Suddenly the rain lessens significantly. Phew. I start the watch and keep going. Not even 2 minutes later it gets heavy again. Now I'm pretty wet. While under another tree, I decide to turn back before my blackberry, watch and shuffle get ruined. 5 minutes later and no respite. Since the tree isn't any help, I decide to just run back. I'm not sure I've ever been so wet in my life where I wasn't in a shower or submerged in water. My handy glasses were fogging up and water was running into my eyes. I ran haphazardly into big puddles and had completely soaked feet. I had to disrobe in the hall, bring my clothes in a ball to wring out. A long shower later, the rain completely stopped and it was a bit sunny out.
The sun should make me happy, but today, it meant that right after my shower, I should go back out and run the other 4.5 miles. Which I did, and you already knew, because I gave it away in the title. My average pace was 10:32, and I didn't do the whole thing in a row, but I ran 6 miles today, so that's something.
Signed, the dedicated one,
Liz
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