Do you do that rain runnin'?

I just finished a 3.8km run that lasted about 28hh:0mm:0ss !

Uh... so need to get the hang of the time thingo in Exhaust... it didn't actually take me 28 hours to run less than 4kms...

So... do you do that rain runnin'?

No... of course not, that's crazy talk.
Unfortunately, this might be my new reality for the next little bit... and by 'little bit' I mean 8 months.

Portland Oregon is amazing... it is so incredibly green (which I love coming from droughty-Melbourne) and the summer is just perfect. 4 months of every single perfect not-too-hot, not-at-all-humid, loveliness.

No place is perfect however, and the cost of a perfect summer is 8 months of rain... which keeps all the things green, so I mind not at all... it hasn't honestly affected me before.. for the last couple of years I'd just spend my time indoor rock climbing or gyming it up... but now with my stupid elbow injury, and my terrible fitness at my last competition, I'm forced to be a runner guy.

I don't like it, and I spend the whole time wanting to be done, and now that the rains have come in, a lot more psyching up is needed... but that's the cost of wanting to be ace I guess.

So... a weird thing happened during this run... as you can see... no footpath, so I have to run on the gravelly edge bit. It's not a busy road, maybe one or two cars per run. I run against the traffic, so I can see cars coming towards me, and they usually avoid me like the plague, giving me more room than they've give a semi-trailer... which I like.

This run however, I guess because it was the first time raining for months, but the cars would basically get up on me, and then drastically swerve away from me at the last second... like 5 cars all did that. It was so weird. Not sure if my bright blue rain jacket blended too well with the green countryside, or if they were just so confused by sky-water that they weren't paying attention. It was kinda fun in an hilariously alarming way.

You know what I love that I didn't know that I loved.... tree clouds.
Check out the clouds sitting in the trees in the photo above. I will never get sick of that.

Join me in testing out EXHAUST soon!