No rain delay for this runner!

The dog woke me up at 4 o'clock and I never really went back to sleep.  She was scared because of the lightning.  And when my alarm clock went off at 5 o'clock, it was POURING rain outside!  But I knew I would run anyway.  Haven't really run in the rain in a long time.  But by the time I got dressed and out the door, it had slowed down considerably and my run was just in a light rain.  But the light show was awesome!  The lightning was beautiful ... especially over the golf course.  I couldn't get out my camera because it would have gotten too wet.  But the lightning looked a lot like this picture.

And I also figured out how to do a screen capture on my iPhone so here's the weather this morning.  The temperature and the rain made for a perfect run!  And I felt sooo good this morning!!!  Was the best run I have had in a couple of weeks.  No pain.  No problem with the pace.  Just a nice, fast run.  My training schedule called for a 5 mile steady 9:00 pace run.  But that was feeling slow to me so I pushed it a little faster after the first mile.  Split times today were 9:03, 8:36, 8:51, 8:41, 8:15 (8:41 average).  I am very, very happy with today's run!

And here I am when it was over.  I was smart and had set a towel on the porch because I was completely soaked when I got home!  Hope my shoes dry by the morning!  Tomorrow's run is a 6 mile fartlek run.

And in honor of the rain today and because I had such a good run, I think I'll play a song.  :)