I don’t like the rain! - Corina's Marathon Blog

Week 2 of my marathon adventure didn’t start quite as planned. We moved to a new apartment over the weekend, so I had 2 days of carrying furniture and boxes up and down stairs. I’d like to say it was a great workout but I can think of more fun ways to get fit! Anyway, my legs were still toast on Monday so I kept delaying my scheduled run hoping to feel better later. Predictably as the afternoon and evening rolled in I was not in the mood to run and just wanted to curl up on the sofa. I’ll do the run tomorrow…

Tuesday and my make-up run didn’t happen either, this time because of the rain. I could say that I am a complete wimp not wanting to go out when it’s raining but instead I’ll take it as a sign of how well I have adapted to the California lifestyle! In Scotland if you don’t go out training when it rains you wouldn’t get much training done at all. I was used to just slinging on an extra layer and heading out into whatever the weather had in store. Over here you know it will be beautiful again later in the day so it doesn’t seem as urgent to head out when its nasty. 

Wednesday and I had the alarm set early to head out for the 8 mile run I was nervous about. I haven’t run this far in a few months and wasn’t completely convinced I was up to the challenge. But… I could hear the rain pelting down whilst I was still lying in bed, so I stayed there and told myself I would definitely do it later. This time Alan helped and reorganized my schedule for me so he could push me out of the door at 3pm. Off I went with my Garmin GPS watch dusted off and freshly out of retirement. I explored some new routes, took some wrong turns and managed to find just about every hill in Rancho Santa Fe! But 8 miles later I was still going strong, confident that I was stronger than I had given myself credit for and looking forward to the rest of the week that didn’t contain any more drama or inconvenient rain.