Tuesday, December 11, 2007

My powers are restored

Now that it's too late to back out, I can let the cat out of the bag for all those traveling to KS... the weather is my fault and as soon as I signed up, you should have backed out in expectation. You see, I have a long history of truly epic weather at events I plan long in advance. The 1998 Detroit Marathon which I trained over 6 months for (and PR'd) was run in torrential rain and 30-45 mph winds. The 2003(might have been 04) Mt Washington Hillclimb was run in weather so bad most wondered why they didn't cancel. I trained for a year for that. I went to so many running and bike races in downpours that I finally bought my own tent to bring to events. Of the 5 Reach the Beach relays I have done, 2 were in hurricanes and 2 more had only short stints of rain, of course while I was on the course. KC could now top them all. So my apologies to crossers everywhere. I still have the ability to bring epic weather events with me to athletic contests. Next time ask me first if I'm planning to register before you do.

3 comments:

gewilli said...

weather was much more epic on saturday than sunday this week...

ya shoulda planned on racing sunday... maybe we'd have had more snow or something!!!

GCDavid said...

I ran that Detroit Marathon. I remember seeing a police street barricade (the steel and wooden variety) blowing across Woodward Ave. At least the wind was okay running through the Detroit/Windsor Tunnel.

trackrich said...

Hey look at that... you ran a 3:03:57 (yes I have the results posted on the wall in the house) :) Got you by 10 minutes that day... I'd be lucky if I was <20 behind you now...