At 7:20, it started raining again. Run #3 this year in deluge conditions. The opening mile was pretty fast, but my shoes started getting heavy, and the cookie dough was sitting high in my stomach, so I slowed down a bit, even walked all the way up Old Haul Road. One of my 18 year old neighbors was sitting at the park in the bowery "chatting" with a pretty girl...good way to spend a rain storm. I ran up the switchbacks to BST. By now the rain had stopped, but I could see it coming down in several locations in the valley. I started playing the lightning game, but every interval between flash and thunder was over 20 seconds.
There was an occupied car parked on the dirt road looking out over the valley, and momentarily it occurred to me to check on him to see if the occupant was all right. Didn't do it. Haven't heard about a suicide victim east of Centerville, so I'm glad I didn't knock on his window. By the time I got back to Deuel Creek, it was raining hard again. Lightning game interval was down to 5 seconds. I got nervous and headed for home throught the graveyard. Awesome run.
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