The weather could only be described as miserable! Foggy, cold and raining. I normally love running in the rain, but I will admit to not having been at all enthusiastic about this one. I sucked it up, got layered up and headed out. I walked the first five minutes or so and did some dynamic stretching before I started running.
What was going on? I suddenly felt light on my feet and soon had a good knee lift and a nice tempo going. I felt good! I haven't felt this good on a run for ages - how I wish running felt this way every time! To make things even better, I ran some of the trails in the Barton's Creek neighborhood and they were wet, muddy, slippery and generally "gnarly". In many places water was running across the trail like a river. This was awesome! I splashed and slipped my way around (very muddy shoes and running pants by the time I got home) and think I had a sh#t-eating grin the whole way.
Why was this? I felt fine out there this morning, but nothing like as light on my feet as I was on Thursday. I really don't have a good answer, but I'm going to attribute it to the weather and being English. It seems to me that weather is like this:
I run like this:
But when the weather is like this:
I run like this:
Well, OK, maybe not quite like that! But you get the idea!
Weird......
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