Come Rain or Come Shine

December 29, 2007-

I traveled back from Christmas vacation with everyone in Florida. After a 6 hour drive back I was pretty exhausted, so needless to say that waking up at 7am for a 5 mile run was not tip top on my agenda. We both decided that we would sleep in that Saturday but the running shoes would be mandatorily laced up on Sunday morning.

Sunday morning I wake up and look out the window. I can tell when I swing my legs out of bed that it's cold but I can now see that it's pouring down raining. Sweet! Just what I was looking forward to.

It's too late now. I tell myself it's a good thing to train in the elements. Emma and I do the course I've mapped out around my place. It's a 4 mile loop full of hills. After the first mile we are completely drenched. Mile 1-1.5 is the monster hill in reverse. Wahoo, it's like a wet slip and slide. I feel like I'm flying down the hill! Sad part is that the rest of the course is uphill from here on out.

My running shoes are shot. It's time to get new ones but I keep putting it off telling myself that I can get a few more miles out of them. After this run though, there is no denying it. The shoes are done. I can feel every step and on the way back I can feel shin splints. Uhhh...this is just miserable. I like the rain by the end of it...all I want is new shoes.