What a Day to Run

The temperature is in the low 40's and mist was falling during today's run. As soon as I finished and started walking up the hill for my regular cooldown, it started raining a little harder, and by the time I was done warming up with a nice hot shower it was actually raining steady. Today was a 7-mile marathon pace run all wrapped up in a total of 8.5 miles. I ran up to Pleasant Valley Baptist Church and circled their parking lot six times since it was fairly level. I planned on keeping up a pace of at least 9 minutes/mile, but ended up with an average pace of 8:23/mile. It seems weird to be wearing my tights under the running pants and layering shirts, but the weather is forcing my hand. I started off wearing my rose-colored lenses but they kept fogging up the latter half of the run so on the third lap I ended up taking them off. This felt much more like a late November run than it did mid-October. Guess I'll blame global warming again.