Day 16: The Wet One: Part 1

Date: February 19th 2011, 10:30 am
Distance: 7.5 miles
Weather: Rain

I had some family in town today so I was pretty excited to do a run with my bros. I was with Jeff and Michael (Steven, bless his heart, was stuck selling dilly bars to Greenacres middle school students).We kept to the schedule and found a route that was just over 7 miles. It started out with a downhill trip down 9th east. The weather was misty and warm. All was well.

First off... it was nice for once having company. There's nothing like a discussion on how the stake executive secretary gets thrown out of a church basketball game for taking your mind off the uphill. And there was uphill. A few miles into the run we found 1.2 miles of continuous uphill as we made our way towards University mall.

By this point in the run, we were all hurting. But hills don't last forever and we worked out the kinks by the time we got to the top. Maybe it was just because I missed breakfast, but everything smelled good up there. You could just smell the barbecue as we passed Dickey's, Texas Roadhouse Barbecue, and Goodwood. Oh boy... it smelled especially good at Goodwood.

By the time we started down the long hill on University, the mist turned into a drizzle, and then into rain. It wasn't long until we were all soaked. What was once a rather warm run turned into a cold wet race to get home. The rain got harder. We ran faster.

Michael called a race to the door of the apartment but stopped one stairwell too short so the Gold medal went to Jeff. Michael, in other words, "got Jimmered".