28 miles.  All Done.

I am pooped!

Stuck with yesterday’s decision to run around our neighborhood.  It turned out to be a really nice run.  It was around 86F 98% humidity.  Perfect Summer running weather!   Couldn’t ask for anything better!

Started out at 7:00 instead of 8:00 just because I didn’t know how long this was going to take.  Turned out to take me 6 hours and 42 minutes.  Not too bad for a slowpoke like me.

I had some company along the way.

See, the city has been taking bids from contractors to clean up tornado debris and today was the day to pick it all up.  There were huge trucks with claw attachments on them.

The claw would reach out and grab a bunch of dead limbs, etc. and dump it in the back of the truck.  Once the truck was full, it would take off leaving some guy in a car.  This car was like a bookmark.  They guy in the car just sat there waiting for the truck to come back.  Where the car was parked, was the place the truck knew to start picking up debris again.  Interesting operation.

The guy in the bookmark car watched me go back and forth and back and forth…Finally, on one of my passes, he rolled down his window and said, “Lady, just how far you running?”  It told him and he just shook his head and clicked tongue.

For the most part, it was overcast today.  The sun would peek out every now and then but pretty soon, it would disappear.  To be honest, the run was going so well, the I had changed my initial plan of 28 miles to 32.  Then, when I got to the marathon mark, the sky opened up and let loose.  Man, did it rain!!!

I like running in the rain.  Actually, I like running in the rain, a lot!  This was a bit beyond just running in the rain, though.  See, I have dropped a bit of weight while training for this race so my shorts are a bit “roomier” than they used to be.  So, add shorts kinda a lot too big and a deluge of rain and the result is running shorts heading south.  Hmmm….this was a problem.

I decided that stopping at 28 miles vs mooning the neighbors…stopping at the 28 miles was probably the best thing to do.   🙂

It really was a picture perfect run today!  Thanks for all your positive thoughts and the kind notes!!!