I've worked outdoors in some fashion most of my adult life: caddied in high school, the last 19 years in athletic training, etc. As a result I healthy respect for what mother nature can throw at us and have a pretty well stocked gear closet to deal with those various conditions.
Rain is no problem. Heavy rain, who cares.
Lightning? No fucking way. Seek shelter.
So today that's what I did. As we were making the 30 minute drive to Spring Lake this morning it started to rain and lightning was visible in the distance...the distance that we were heading straight into.
Get to the race. It's raining. No big deal. Not the conditions I'd hoped for, but ok. Then the lighting picked up. REALLY picked up. They announced a 15 minute delay. When that delay ended they announced an hour delay. I conferred with my personal safety committee, T, and went to registration table and turned in my chip. The look on the lady's face was priceless - sort of bewilderment and surprise.
See, I know what the current standard inclement weather policies are - and what the race director was proposing wasn't in line with those, IN MY OPINION. So I came home.
Running is fun...but it ain't worth dying for.
1 comment:
Good move. It wasn't a goal race.
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