There's no such thing as bad weather...

"There's no such thing as bad weather, only weak runners."

~ Chelsea Neville

I woke up this morning and decided semi-spontaneously that I should either swim or bike before I go for my run.  I debated the pros and cons of each and well, my lazy economically aware self decided that I should stay home and hop on the trainer instead of driving to the gym to hop in the pool.  I put Jack Black's Gulliver's Travels on and jumped on the bike.

The movie was good; nothing spectacular, but it was entertaining enough to keep me riding for over an hour, just over 25 miles.  I cycled for a straight 40 minutes and then took a breather.  I hopped back on, kicked up the gear, and rode for another 28 minutes.  When I was done, I was drenched!  I may very well have to setup one of my standing fans early this year.  

After the bike, I figured "Ok, time for my run."  That's when I became aware of what was going on outside of the confines of my room's four walls; a lot of this...

Rain is one of few forms of weather that will stop me from exercising outdoors.  Something about rain just gets to me.  Unless I'm at home with a good book, a back porch and a comfy chair, I really don't like rain.  I'll take snow instead any day of the week.  But today, I looked at it differently and ran anyways.  No weak runners here!  Knocked off three miles in 23 minutes. 

Now I am about to eat some dinner (it is cooking while I type this, yay multitasking!).  Then hopefully it's back over for another attempt at 3:10 to Yuma; no promises though. 



PS: If you remember, I mentioned last Thursday that I'd have some reviews early this week.  I'll have a short-term review of the CEP All Sport Compression Calf Sleeve tomorrow.  I may push the short term review of my bike trainer to next week in order to give myself some more time to get rides in on it and form a fuller opinion. 

Questions

1.  How did your training week start off?  Wrong side of the bed?, or like a rocket?

2.  Are you a weak runner?  Is there a type of weather (precipitation or temp) that will stop you from going outdoors?
Rain normally stops me.  I presume hail, sleet, tornadoes, and hurricanes would stop me.  Temps over 90 F are too much, and anything around 0 F gets a bit cold.

3.  How are you at multitasking?  Do you own it?, or are you a one-thing-at-a-time type person?
On a grand scale, I am the worst multitasker EVER - I go from one project to another, but once I switch, that last one is lost.  On a minor scale, I always tend to be cooking and blogging, eating and organizing, cleaning and brainstorming for work, working and writing workout schedules, etc.  I'm odd.


Stay fit.  Stay healthy.