Distance: 7.34 km
Weather: Steady rain
Temp: 10ºC (!)
Wind: n/a
In 19 days it is officially summer. Today I ran in a steady rain with the temperature at noon hovering a smidgen above 10ºC. This after Environment Canada announced their summer forecast predicting drier and hotter-than-normal conditions for BC. LIARS.
While the puddles expanded on each lap, my run went well, with the first km coming in at a brisk 5:00/km and my overall pace 5:28, three seconds faster than the prior 40 minute run. A few other joggers showed up right near the end but I mostly had the park to myself. The guy I think of as Kung Fu Master, the one who spends his time balancing on the fence tops in and around the park, was there doing his thing and for the first 10 minutes or so a kid about 14 years old, bedecked in rain gear, stood statue-like in the rain watching KFM carefully balancing himself. He was utterly transfixed. At some point he probably realized he was also getting soaked to the butt and moved on.
I had a momentary scare when my foot slipped in the muck on the terrible southeast corner of the trail and my ankle twisted inward but recovered quickly without further incident. About midway through I did have an ULI — Untied Lace Incident. I paused to tie the lace back up and was good after that. A minor cramp showed up with a few minutes left but dissipated quickly. As is usually the case in a rain-filled run, I couldn’t get the iPod to stop due to it being slick with precipitation and ran farther than intended. It’s not a bad thing, just annoying when technology tells you, ‘No.’
At least you don’t notice the sweat in a torrential downpour. Yeah.
Chart (blue indicates the run was done clockwise):
| km | June 2 | May 31 | May 28 | May 26 | May 23 | May 20 | May 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 km | 5:00 | 5:05 | 5:07 | 5:01 | 5:03 | 5:15 | 5:13 |
| 2 km | 5:10 | 5:13 | 5:14 | 5:13 | 5:15 | 5:24 | 5:23 |
| 3 km | 5:16 | 5:18 | 5:19 | 5:19 | 5:21 | 5:31 | 5:30 |
| 4 km | 5:20 | 5:22 | 5:23 | 5:24 | 5:25 | 5:35 | 5:35 |
| 5 km | 5:23 | 5:25 | 5:24 | 5:24 | 5:26 | 5:37 | 5:37 |
| 6 km | 5:26 | 5:29 | |||||
| 7 km | 5:28 | 5:31 |
