Chicken

I got chicken today and I didn’t run.  I was supposed to run around 8 miles today.  With the way my leg felt, I decided to switch my workouts around and run 4 to 5 instead.  And then a monsoon hit at work today.  As I was standing there watching the storm blow sideways with hail hitting everywhere, a bolt of lightning hit a tree 50 yards away splintering bark in all directions.  Wow.  That was cool.

The problem is that less than 15 minutes earlier I had made the walk from the shop in the back up to the front.  And I did not get hit with one drop of rain.  This storm came out of nowhere.

Fast forward to this afternoon when Christine and I were planning to go for a run.  Every 5 minutes, the TV started blaring the emergency broadcast warning about a storm coming.  So we went and sat on the back porch and watched it.  There was rain.  There was wind.  There was lightning.  And there we were.  Just watching.  And I decided to skip my run.

I keep going back to what most ultrarunning websites say about training in all weather.  Just do it.  Because you never know what the weather will be on race day.  But I got chicken anyway.  Wind I can handle.  Rain……no problem.  Lightning that I saw destroy a tree today…….well I am chicken.

Tomorrow I will run in the rain no matter what.

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