Results tagged “rain” from Birmingham Mail - Road Runner

Paul has decided his shin injury is too painful to risk running a race on it, and is gutted that he can't take part in the Lichfield 10K. So I will be running the race alone.

I say that, but as you can imagine with two people as different in height and stature as Paul and I, I am used to him racing off ahead so it won't be too different from usual.

I haven't done any running since Wednesday, purely because I have been so busy, but now I actually have some time on my hands, it is bucketing down with rain as I speak. Probably everyone who is reading this will know what I mean, as yesterday and today have been totally miserable weather-wise.

Having said that, I am not rain-shy, I have been out running in the rain several times - I actually prefer it to running in the heat. But I can't and won't go out when it is raining so much that I would be squelching rather than running. I can't see how going out with every piece of clothing on me waterlogged would really do me any good, so I will be sitting today out as well, and hoping that not running for three days will not put me at a disadvantage for tomorrow's race.

My aim is to do the course in under one hour, which I am pretty confident of doing, but I'll see what the weather is like before I make any outlandish predictions...

I ran for 50 minutes in the pouring rain yesterday and apart from the obvious wet and cold the weather caused me a real problem or two.

1. As the rain got heavier, so did my t-shirt, shorts, socks and trainers. I weighed about two stone more by the time I got back to my car
2. I actually, truly, found it difficult to see where I was going. Seriously, I looked a prize prat zig-zagging round Arrow Valley Lake
3. My earphones kept dropping out of my ears because they were wet. So I had to keep fiddling with them. This is actually more annoying than you might think.

So I've found a very simple solution.

Tonight ladies and gentlemen, I am running at the gym. And no, before you say anything, that isn't cheating.