Running away from August! Onward into September!

[OakLeaf]

Ugh GLC. That sounds awful.

Personally when I started yesterday it was 57 and cloudy, and it stayed that way through my whole run, and I never so much as rolled down my arm warmers or felt my gloves were overly warm. You and I are on different planes when it comes to hypothermia... but I can't see running in those conditions without being able to add and remove at least a hat and probably an outer layer too. I'd start with a microweight wool base layer under a long sleeve technical top ... of which my favorite one is also long discontinued.

I did poke around the internets this morning looking for the jacket Yellow linked to and found a site in the UK that still has them, but only in black (plus one XL in blue). Not for me, not in black, but just for reference, are they true to size? From Gore's US size chart it looks like I should take a medium, where I take a small in most tops.

[GLC1968]

Thanks Yellow and Oak. I have a local friend who is a Gore rep, so I'm going to send her that link and ask her if she knows of anywhere I can get myself one of those!

I was wearing a baseball style running hat which successfully kept the rain out of my eyes/face and I'm sure it kept me a bit warmer. I was also wearing wool socks (the only socks I ever wear running!), so at least my feet survived, despite the wet. I was worried about sloughing off all my skin, but they were fine once they dried out. Go wool!

Sounds like I now have a reason to buy more wool t's! I think I can handle wool t's and a light jacket until winter gets here. I'm ok with running in the rain, but typically if it's raining here, it's quite a bit colder than it was on Sunday and I think that's what threw me.

[rocknrollgirl]

Call me crazy, but I do not mind running in the rain at all. I have a super light wool l/s zip neck for days like that. Now that being said, I have not run 11.5 miles in rain like that. hmmm...

Well today was our last run before our race on Saturday. I really am going in just to finish. I am hoping for 4 hours, it is somewhere between 26 and 27k, so 16-17 miles, rough terrain, all single track. I will be trudging for sure and remaining of cookies.

Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl when you must!

I will report back after the race. Wish me luck. Please send good trail karma between 10am and 2pm est on Saturday.

[OakLeaf]

Good luck rnrgirl! Have fun!

[GLC1968]

Please send good trail karma between 10am and 2pm est on Saturday.

Trail happy karma coming your way. Have a good time and eat some cookies for me! ;-)

[yellow]

Ooooooo, RnR. Have a great race. I will carb up on some cookies for you this week TRUDGE ON!

Oak, the Gore jacket is true to size. I pretty much always wear a small and it is a small and fits perfectly. I also have this one, which I find too warm for running but I have worn it on colder, windy-er days when skate skiing. I luv it too.

http://www.goreapparel.com/gore-runn...vid=xsellpdprp

Yeah, I have a sh!t ton of jackets.

As for running, I went for a run in the mountains after work this evening and someone flipped the autumn switch over the last day or so. Wow. Absolutely stunning colors--aspens, maples, mountain ash, all kinds of yellow and orange and red and green going on. I am tired and really needed a rest day (haven't had one in a week), but knowing it's supposed to rain (snow in the mts) tomorrow and figuring that it was probably pretty lovely up there, I just had to go. Didn't have my camera. Stupid move. I hope the weather coming in doesn't put out that fire of color--I want to go see it again over the weekend.

[GLC1968]

Yellow - I just ordered that one off Amazon (previous year, for cheap)! Good to hear that it's slightly heavier since I just discovered that I already have a super lightweight water resistant jacket from Nike that I've never worn. It would have been perfect for Sunday's conditions had I thought to bring it with me! duh.

Next run will be tonight...but late, so I'll probably have to treadmill it. Poo.

[skhill]

Today was going to be 7 miles, but at 3.5 a piece of sidewalk reached up and tripped me. It's not too bad, some road rash on my left forearm and right palm, and a massive bruise coming up on my left hip. It happened near a firehouse, so I walked over there and checked that I was only oozing a little blood, not dripping. Since nothing was broken, I ran on home from there (the cute young paramedic suggested I call someone for a ride but it was 6:30 am and that's not nice). Ended up running about 5 miles. I was expecting my hip to be barking on my bike ride to work a little later, but that was fine; it was the scraped palm that was an issue. I'm sure everything will be more sore tomorrow...

Earlier on, I'd run in to a team for the upcoming Bourbon Chase, out for a group run in their matching team shirts. It's a 200 mile relay, usually teams of 12. Pretty cool. Someday I hope to be able to be a last minute replacement for an injured runner-- that's the bargain way to participate!