Running After the Wine and before the Rain...

Joy here...Okay, so last night we had friends from out of town come to visit us. One of these friends is celebrating her 60th birthday. Granted it was last week, but we all figured that for turning 60 she gets a "birthmonth" rather than just one, single day to celebrate. Now what this all means for me and my training is that I had far more wine and champagne last night than I had originally intended. The Man and I had all these plans to have perrier and juice and silly resolutions like that crumbled when our guests actually arrived and we got in the party mood. So we were up late eating, drinking, visiting, and then eating chocolate cake! Don't get me wrong, the indulgences were awesome, but we certainly didn't wake up bright and early for any run this morning. Nope. We just slept in, and then after The Man got back from work, we went for a pre-dinner run (after finishing off the leftover chocolate cake - I mean, we had to get it out of the house, right???). Since yesterday (Tuesday) was hill repeats and tomorrow (Thursday) will be a tempo run, today was scheduled as an easy run. So we got our chocolate and wine filled jiggly butts out the door even though the weather network was warning that there are severe thunderstorms, hail, and possibly even tornadoes in the works for tonight. We, however, did our run through the trails past where we do our hill workout, and then walked home and didn't run into any rain at all.

Here are today's run details: Total distance of 12km in 1:13:37 for an average pace of 6:08min/km. So that was our easy run before the rain, with bellies full of chocolate and booze.

Now we're going to settle in for a relaxing night and let the thunder roll, the lightening flash, and the rain fall...