Rainy Saturdays

Today:
Distance: 32.4 km
Time: 3hrs 12mins 50secs
Rate: 5'57" per km
Weather: Cloudy to start,sunny later,temp range 14-17 degrees,light NW breeze,humidity 90% - 70%
Week:
Distance: 79.1 km
Running days: 4/7
Ave: 19.77km per run day
April:
Distance: 416.85 km
Running days: 19/28
Ave: 21.94 km per run day
Year to date:
Distance: 1544.3 km
Running days: 81/118
Ave: 19.06 km per run day

I thought the song said "Rainy days and Mondays always get me me down" but Saturdays are probably the worst day.Today was going to be a 21 miler out at the Cotter at 8:00am, but it rained from about midnight and by early morning was still coming down. Not that we can complain about it raining, but not on a Saturday morning. So I woosed out on the early start, reset the alarm for 10:00am and went back to sleep. Still raining when the phone rang at 9:30am so had breakfast and watched a tape of BB's Friday Night games. By noon it was time to go running, brain sufficiently numb to get out.
Much the same as the previous Saturdays with a loop run over to Wanniassa Hills and back, stop for eats and drinks and continue on only this time leaving out the Tour De Theodore. Down to Point Hut and Pine Is and over to the Tuggy Creek overflow from Lake Tuggeranong, plenty of water in there now, hope some get caught on the dams.
A much better run today, maybe cooler weather or getting fitter and smarter. Played the walk/run game better today with 25 minutes of running and 5 minutes of walking as close to any hills as possible. This worked a treat and I still managed to stay under the 6 minutes per km I would like at GH80,now only 3 weeks away.
Arranged to get collected at Pine Is after 10 minutes standing in the water, very cool,that was enough, winter the time in gets much shorter, but still very necessary.
Running again tomorrow at the monthly vet's handicap over 10km so hopefully I will have recovered in time. Very good day to be out running, very enjoyable.