Running With Tony

So, this is the Weather Channel's idea of 10% chance of rain?

I have a colleague at school who is training for his first marathon, the St. Louis Go!, which is only two weeks away. So, earlier this week, I ask if he wanted to run together on Saturday morning since we would probably be going the same distance. He was all for it, but preferred not to run in the rain. We decided to keep an eye on the weather all the way up through Friday before making a final decision and as of yesterday it was only calling for 10-20% chance of rain Saturday morning until 9:00 am then the chance increased to 40-60%.

We decided to go ahead and run, starting at 5:30 am knowing our 16 miles would take roughly 2.5 hours putting us well ahead of the rain. When I woke up this morning I checked The Weather Channel one more time only to see the chance of rain decrease to 10% max up until 9:00 am. Perfect. No rain on the radar. Out we go.

8 miles into the run, at the farthest part of our run away from the house, downpour. Not only steady rain, but the wind is blowing and it's cold. Like in the 30's cold. All I can think about is "great Tony is never going to run with me again". However, he turned it into a positive by saying that if he can run in this he can finish his marathon. I told Tony that two weeks from now he could look back on this run when he reached mile 20 and be motivated by either finishing the cold-rain run or by thinking I can't wait to get home and strangle Washam! Either way he would be motivated.

Big ups to Tony and running through our unpredictable spring weather and for putting in the miles to prepare himself for St. Louis. Weather channel however?, next time up your % so at least I can think well, they told me it would rain. Run over, glad to be done.