Running in the Rain!

Warning:  this post is long, and it really has no redeeming value.
My friend Dan and I continue to train for the Gettysburg Marathon.  Today's goal was a 15 mile training run.
It was raining, but we agreed that maybe it will be raining on Marathon day, so we need to train in all weather conditions.  Plus, we aren't wimps.

Compared to Jody.  He's a wimp.  He originally said he would run with us, but then was too afraid of the rain.  He's a wimp.  And his indoor cat's a wimp, too.

We ran through Landisville and Salunga.

We left the towns and headed out on to the open road.  This is a video of us running on Harrisburg Pike.  It's not exciting.  It's just us running.  But that's what it feels like.  Except it goes on like this for two and a half hours.

We saw Sea Gulls.  Mom and Dad, have there always been Sea Gulls around here?

Dan described conditions as "not ideal", "challenging" and "harsh".

We saw these chains at a bridge.  My guess is they are to keep animals like cows from going under the bridge.  It just seems like an elaborate setup for that.

We went up Prospect Road by Groff's farm.  Again, this is just a video showing running.  I suggest you skip it.  You'll never get that couple of minutes back - they'll be wasted forever.

We look happy, but we weren't.  It was a difficult day.  But this picture shows a couple of half-century aged men giving it the gass around mile eleven.  Ha!  Take that, world!

 

After running thru Silver Spring, we both just about had enough.  We decided not to do the last mile, and instead ran the direct route home along the row of trees beside Ivy Drive.  We have a video that captures the excitement.

If you are still reading, then you have almost as much endurance as Dan and me.  Congratulations!  Here's our route summary, as recorded with Endomondo on my Blackberry.  As we stepped on our driveway, the phone robot announced "Fourteen Miles!"

When we got home I roasted a chicken.