Raindrops keep falling on my head. la la la la la la...

I humiliated the weather, and it worked.

Today, the rain did not do this:


Nope. Mother Nature really let opened up the flood gates 20 minutes into our run this morning.
We had our weekl Tuesday progressive. I decided to go left again, and this time had no followers. I was pretty grumpy for the first 2 warmup miles leading down to the left/right decision point, so I can't blame them.

Wasn't feeling too good for the first 4 miles. My legs are tired, my brain was tired, and my whole body was tired from burning the candle at both ends. Olympics till 10:30pm + 4:30am wakups = "Not so much."

I actually considered cutting the run short, or running the distance but just as an easy long run, but then it began... 35 minutes prior, I had told Nedra and Jenn that I wanted TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR. That's precisely what I got!! Finally the run I'd been waiting for a long long time. I don't even rememeber the last time I ran in a hard hard rain. Probably about 18 months ago, as I know I never got a single hard rain run last summer despite all the rains that did fall. No, wait. I take that back. I ran a trail run late last summer where it poured goats and elephants!

Long story short, a grumpy, tired, and uninspired Mike turned into a kid in the candy store. I WoooHoo'd and Yahooo'd as runners came by me, and picked up the pace from my 8'ish min miles to somewhere in the mid to low 7's. Good enough for me!

Rain rain rain, ankle deep puddles, ankle deep roads, even deeper turnaround street at auditorium shores, swimming pool along Stevie Ray Vaughn stretch. It was fanstatic!

I even ran by some weirdo that had an umbrella open and yelled out:
PUT THAT THING AWAY!!!

I did clock one mile split: My 2nd to last mile from the 4 Seasons mile marker to I-35. 7:44. Not too shabby for a cool down mile.

Best thing I've done in a long time also happened today. It started sprinkling on my windshield about 4 minutes into my drive, and I decided to turn around, and grab a cap from home. It's been too hot to run with a cap, but instinc told me to get one. I'm glad i did!

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I was planning on taking tomorrow off, then I decided to run in Houston and asked Panther to make me a run route, then i decided to take a break, then early on in the run this morning I decided I definitely would take a break, but then, the rain helped change everything.

And THEN... I read how apparently I inspired Erin to go run her workout last night, which in turn re-inspired me! So to hell with it all. I'm going to go out there and hit my goal I set for myself on April 5th.
FLASHBACK TO APRIL 5th:

So, the new training calls for a base training program for several months where all I do is run miles. I do not run any quality/track/speed workouts, instead solely focus my running on putting miles into my legs, and progressively increasing up to X miles per week (MPW). Sisson has given me the Base training macro which has many different options: 45, 50, 60, 70, 80 or 90 total miles per week. If I’m going to run 90, why not just run 100, right? So that’s my goal. I will increase my mileage all the way up to 100 miles per week. Personally, I also want to then run 3 consecutive 100 Mile weeks, just to say I’ve done it. Why 3? I dunno, sounds better than 1 or 2, and 4 seems a little far fetched.

Why? Because I know i'll be disappointed with myself if i don't. I'll always thinkm back on how I should have just gone for it. I'm dedicating every mile I run this week to anyone who has found any inspiration from anything I do.

How I can be inspiring?, is still a mystery to me!, but oh well, i'll take it!
I'll humble(dt state univerity) accept my role as Captain Inspiration for the week.
(Lord knows I'm consistently sucking inspiration form all of you!)

But just this week... Next week, don't look for aaaaaanything but mediocrity or less from me.