Last night I went for my 60 minute training run...outside. Normally this would not be a big deal, except for the fact that it is December in WI and it was raining, dark, and windy. There was a blizzard warning in effect. I have been doing most of my runs lately on the treadmill because of the weather, and I was so sick of running on the treadmill that I decided to go outside. About 40 minutes into my run, I ran under an overpass, a car drove past me, hit a HUGE puddle and splashed me with nasty, cold, street water from head to toe. As I was gasping for air and spitting out gravel, ANOTHER car drove past and I was hit again! It was very cold and windy, and now that I was soaking wet, it was even worse. To make matters worse, I ended up running extra time as I couldn't see my watch and had paused it for about 15 minutes during my run. All in all, I made it through the run, hopped immediately into the shower to warm up and clean up, decided that this would be a training run that I will always remember, and deemed myself hard core.
