Let’s establish something. I am not one of those runners who will only go outside in perfect weather. While I do prefer it, I’ll run in wind, rain, or snow. I have appropriate pants, jackets, hats to run in all sorts of weather, and have run in all sorts of weather. What I will not do is run in any situation where I think there might be lightning.

First of all, I’m clumsy, and hearing lightening while I’m running could seriously make me fall on my face. Second, I refuse to be a runner who gets struck by lightning. Especially after reading a couple articles like this or this. It would probably never happen, but I prefer not to find out.

That’s a very long lead in to tell you I didn’t do my planned workout today. I was all ready to do my planned 6 miles and looked outside. On one side of my house there was a pretty nasty storm with visible lightning. On the other side there was an almost equally nasty looking storm, no visible lightning, but threatening. I really didn’t want to miss my workout, but I didn’t want to do it inside.

Went to the gym and ran 30 minutes easy.

I’m going to rearrange the next few days. I’ll get up early, do my 6 miles tomorrow, and make Monday easy.