Training Update - Week 4

Last week was my 4th week of training. Ten weeks till the Hobble Creek half marathon & 16 weeks till the St. George Marathon. Going into my fifth week of training I'm feeling pretty darn good. I logged 10.7 miles last week which was short of my goal for last week because of a interesting run on Saturday. I do my long runs of the week on Saturdays & this last weekend I got home from work & decided to go out for a run. It was about 7pm when I left & my run was going to be five miles. I got to my half way point & turned around only to see completely black clouds to the south of me. Thanks to my dad's teaching when I was younger I was able to tell which way the storm was going & it was headed straight for me. I still had 2.5 miles to go to get back home. I picked up my pace to almost a sprint & headed for home. I was determined to beat the storm and still get my full distance in. I got within about a mile of my house & the storm hit me hard. A complete down pour of rain & hard wind. Any of you that run know that it is hard to run against the wind & hard to run in rain. I was at a point in my run when the rain hit me that I could take a short cut through a field where there is some construction to get home faster & since it was pouring I decided to take it. I cut across the construction site where they are building a new church house & I was sloshing in mud & sliding all over the place trying to get to my street. By the time I got home my shoes were covered in mud and I was soaked. My 5 mile run turned into a 4.4 mile run. That was the first time I have ever been caught in a rain storm like that on my run. It was interesting.