Well I'm two weeks removed from my bout with the flu bug. It's taken me a while to get back to feeling ok. Thankfully I'm back and feeling pretty good. My runs have been good, my bike rides ok and my swims pretty darn good. The challenge of late has been work and frankly the weather.
I was planning on riding in the first of the Carnation Time Trial bike races last Sunday. It didn't happen, the time trial happened but I didn't get there. When I awoke on Sunday it was cold and wet and I just frankly wasn't up for driving 30 minutes waiting around for 2 hours and then going all out for 30 minutes on the bike on wet and slick roads. As it turns out it was worse than that, it was snowing and there was slush on the roads and several cars had gone off the road on the course from the reports I heard.
I was thinking that will be the last of the bad weather it's got to get better now with only the occassional wet or cooler day. I rode on Monday evening for a quick ride as I left my house it was not raining and I thought a window of opportunity for a dry ride. 10 minutes in and the light rain was falling as I made the turn to head south I was riding into a very wet misty rain and a 20 mph cold headwind. Oh and this morning, more snow.....
My two runs this week have been wet, wet, wet. Yesterday I ran a little over an hour and it was really coming down when I headed out and you know what it just rained harder and harder as the day went. I was running along the Sammamish Slough (a slow moving river) and it was literally frothing white with foam from how hard the rain was falling and how big the drops were. For the first 20 minutes I was trying to run around the big puddles but finally gave up because I realized I was running in standing water everywhere so why bother. To add to the misery it's cold. This winter has really worn me out and I haven't even been riding outdoors like last year which makes me so glad I don't have an early season Ironman.
Our average high tempearture in March is supposed to be 52 degrees this year 40.5 degrees and March is historically significantly warmer than February not this year, colder (February this year was 41). Now I know it's worse in a lot of places but if you live there you expect it and can mentally get ready for it.
Thankfully there is a rumor that we will have a couple dry days this weekend before it turns wet again early next week. It's pretty sad when dry is you measure of a beautiful day (not sunny, not warm, just not raining or snowing).
I've got a couple weeks until my mini camp in Hood River and I definitely need to get some miles in on the bike or it's going to be a long, hard couple of days and I'd rather it be hard but not potential, continuous bonking.
Updates on bike upgrades, review of the new GU Chomps which I've had the opportunity to sample, hopefully some new pictures and maybe even some reports on dry warm rides.
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