In the UK, storms, even small ones, get given names these days. The current one is called Storm Gerritt. Well whoever Gerritt is, he is annoying because he’s meant that we have to change our plans for tomorrow. However, Gerrit has not dared come this far towards us, but we have had a bit of rain. So it was in this context that I went on my 1 hour long run this morning.
It’s the first time I’ve tried a longer run (10km, 6 miles) since I finished the 100 days of 5k. It was partly because I want to get fit for some longer runs, but also because i wont get to run tomorrow, so it was kind of a ‘kill 2 runs with one stone’ type of day.
The roads were still quite quiet at 10am this morning. It’s theoretically a normal working day, but it’s still a bit christmassy here. Also, the rain is keeping the casual visitors away. I had waited for the best gap in the weather, and it kind of paid off, but also kind of didn’t.
To keep me at least a little bit dry, I ran in my raincoat. This is not an ideal situation, it only kind of works and makes me very hot. It’ also covers my watch meaning that the GPS doesn’t really work properly. So I kind of wanted to take off the coat, but I had no way of holding it, so I had to run with the hood down and my sleaves rolled up for the most part, which wasn’t ideal.
And then there the fact that my shoes are getting old and there’s actually a small hole in the bottom of one of them, so the water from the puddles just comes straight in, which makes the running very heavy.
Last but not least, there are the big puddles in the road. I’ve never driven a car, so I don’t really know how it works, but the cars, and particularly the lorries, seem to drift towards me when they seem me, making sure I get a huge rain shower when I run past them.
So, I did it, I completed my run, but I’m back to moaning the whole way around, and this took 1 hour and 15 minutes today, so it was a lot of moaning.
Anyway, we’ve redone our plans for tomorrow, a trip to Hereford to meet my mom is the current plan, let’s see if the floods bring any more changes overnight.