Fueled by Pizza and beer...

I had an 11 hour sleep and spent the entire afternoon sitting on the deck, sipping on beers and twittering. For dinner I ordered a pizza, from my computer of course. By 8 pm I figured I better get out for my long run. All day it was hot and humid and normally I love running in this sort of weather, but with this being a recovery week I decided to wait until the early evening.

Nothing motivates you to run than after drinking beer and eating pizza. You have to do something to burn those calories. I'm lucky in that I have an "iron" stomach. I can eat and drink anything and then go for a run right after. The only time I had a problem was about 20 years ago when I ate an entire large Domino's pizza all by myself and went for a run. I was fine until I ran by Domino's and could smell the pizza cooking and on my full pizza stomach I almost lost it. But my "iron" stomach came through and I didn't.

It was a strange run. When I left it was hot, humid and muggy outside. Just how I like it. Then about 20 minutes into the run I could see in the horizon a large dark storm cloud. From a distance it had lots of lightening coming from it and it was coming my way. As it got closer it got blacker, it got windy and the air became very cool. The heat and humidity was gone in less than 30 seconds. I planned on doing an hour and thirty five minutes but because it was a recovery week and there was heavy lightening I decided to turn and run towards home.

This is the weird part. The lightening was the worst I've ever seen. At one point it went off and blinded me, the entire sky went white and knocked out the street lights. I was running by a house at that time and some people on there deck even made the "woe" sound. As I ran the side walk was wet, the rain had come down before me. As I ran the rain was either in front of me, behind me or beside me at any given moment. It was strange. It was raining everywhere but on me. It stayed like this until I got to my front door step and then it started coming down everywhere. About 20 minutes later it became torrential and the power in the house was knocked out a couple of times.

Mod Run - 49:58 / 5.91 miles / 8:27 pace / avg hr 136

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