YOU DON’T GO OUT.. DUH.
Seems fairly simple..right!?....so what do we do when we receive this warning?..UM..go running of course.. DUH....
A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for our area around 6:45pm.... stating a severe thunderstorm with winds in excess of 70 miles per hour, large hail and ground to something lightening was heading our way, they went as far as to give us a precise time it would arrive in the Glenmoore area, 7:20pm.
Like the weather people are NEVER accurate… whatever… so I rang Joe to see how close he was to home and to tell him of our impending doom. …WHATEVER…
Um….it sure felt like it was going to storm… it sure “smelled” like it was going to storm… and yeah I am sure we are going to get whacked.. WHATEVER...we got to get the run in.. PERHAPS if we run fast enough we will outrun it...
I am sorry when did you become an olympic 5,000 meter specialist.. jeez.. I don't know sometimes the old brain cells just don't toot out the right charges... I gathered our gear….and as soon as Joe got home, out the door we go... yeah GOT to run fast to get it in before we get whacked...
Uh oh... (as Joe and I look)... A thick line of black clouds was growing larger in the distance.. um… run... run... uh oh... lightening.. should we turn back he says....ONWARD we trudge……run .. run .. run... we made it through the woods and were heading into a clearing just as the rampant winds start.... DOROTHY MAN DON'T DROP THAT HOUSE ON US!!!... the winds were wild.. coming at us from all sides.. we momentarily had to stop to question our fate… WHAT TO DO!?
Do we continue on?..... Do we run back through the woods?.... Do we kiss our asses goodbye?... in the few seconds we were contemplating what to do and thinking about how UNWISE it was to even have attempted this run….. Joe said let's stand against that stone barn . (as he points to a giant old stone wall).. THANK GOD for OLD CONSTRUCTION!!!.... YES.. we run over and shield ourselves against the wall.
The winds howl around us …gusts of winds sheering the trees….. it almost would have been a bit frightful... had I not been all hyped up... I ask Joe, "Like what if we see… a tornado?".. I mean it sounds like a stupid question but at the moment very realistic..he pointed to the barn door near us and said we would go in the barn… (as the barn door flys open).. OR MAYBE NOT he says… ha... I wonder what we looked like to the owners of the barn as they watched from their home at the two idiots.. …. us the two runner dudes standing tight against their stone barn…. me in my high tech running bra and short shorts...
I can only imagine what “Farmer Brown” must of said when he looked out his window, “ Ethel, there are those two runner idiots… standing against our barn in an ELECTRICAL storm with their fancy watches and half dressed… boy city folk are stupid..”
When the winds died down a bit we took flight and ran back up through the woods as this was the quickest way home… I know for a fact I have never in my life run up this hill this fast.. and got even faster once the bolt of lightening damn near hit the tree next to us...JOE WAIT UP FOR MEEEEEE…… Joe was a good 3 yards ahead and I was losing ground… it must have been quite funny actually and I can laugh about it now … I ran the fastest 2.5 training mile ever… oh yeah and I have grass plastered on my arms.. yeah nice.. I guess I can put this down as my speed work out!?
