The weather was much more interesting than the running. It was a true odyssey.
From mid morning to early afternoon I had been working outside, cleaning up from wood-heating season. The sun kept coming and going. When the sun was out, it was very nice. When the sun wasn't out, it was a bit cool, but not unpleasant.
Having finished with the clean-up, I came in, got dressed for running and drove to the track.
Walk from car to track: Overcast, somewhat breezy, cool.
Lap 1: Breezier and cooler.
Lap 2: Breezy, light rain.
Lap 3: Windy, heavier rain.
Lap 4: Light hail, moderate hail, heavy hail. Very windy. So much hail that the entire track was covered in it. Cold.
Lap 5: Thunder, all hail melted.
Lap 6: Overcast, breezy.
Lap 7: Less overcast, less breezy.
Lap 8: Partially cloudy, light breeze.
Lap 9: Similar to lap 8, but improving.
Lap 10: Partial sunshine, light breeze, nice temperature.
Lap 11: Conditions continued to improve.
Lap 12: Mostly sunny, very light breeze, very nice running weather.
Walk from track to car: Sunny, warm, almost no breeze--beautiful spring weather.
Time for 3 miles: 27:38. Not a memorable time, but one of my most memorable runs since I started running in 1972.
2 comments:
Extremely interesting run report! If you used your Garmin, can you go back in and modify the report to show all your splits? (you'll have to actually upload the data from the Garmin to your computer, then pick 0.25 for the report interval). This would be interesting to see the split variation relative to the variable weather conditions. Note: I use a freeware called SportsTrack, which is much better than the default Garmin software. It will do barcharts showing your pace per interval. It also can plot your run route on air photo/satellite maps, which is very cool. For track runs, it is interesting to see your GPS line wavering in and out of the track.
Mark
My Garmin is out for repair. It died last summer and I just sent it to Garmin last week. I am going to blog about why I am unhappy with Garmin.
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