Flat Leaver Take 2...

Sunday...no time for a recovery run...I had the super important role of godmother to baby James at his baptism!

• Monday- pilates. No running.
• Tuesday- blech. It's pouring rain, cold and windy. To run or not to run.
• Sitting at my desk debating this when my phone chimes. It's flat leaver texting me..."want to run tonight"..."maybe, more like a game time decision for me", I text back.
• "perfect, see you at 6pm. west side highway and 14th st". Hrm. What part of game time decision did he not understand.
• So like a big sucker I say yes. I am thankful for 2 things that day.
• 1. Google's head of security heard me whining about forgetting my hat, so he handed me his big, warm, fleecy hat, +5 to RR
• 2. Mike offered to run with me from 8th ave and 15th st to the west side highway, just to get me out the door. +5 Mike
• So I run across with Mike, get to 14th st and guess what? NO FLAT LEAVER. At this point, as the rain is pelting down, I am cursing and muttering for being so stupid as to make plans with a flat leaver....so I wait 5 minutes (rather generous amount of time to wait in the rain I thought) and started to run.
• As always, you forget about the rain...
• I went about 10 blocks and low and behold, who did I run into. Yup, F.L...."i'm so sorry, work kept me late"...blah blah blah. That's all I really heard after that.
• FL: "so what's going on, what's new, what have you been up to, how's work. what's going on, what's new, what have you been up to, how's work. we running 8 miles today. i need to run 8 miles today" blah blah blah.
• I know better than to run with company on my short runs. My answers "nothing, nothing, running, nothing, nothing, running, no, I only need to run 5 today".
• FL: "c'mon, meet me in the middle, run 6"...Me " did you go to practice on Saturday". FL: "no, I was hung over". Me "I went, even though I was sick, so I only need to do 5 today"...
• And so it went...

I made it back to 14th in one piece. I said my goodbyes. I ran back to the office where I took a nice hot shower and ate a nice free hot meal.

Rain, 0. Jen, 1. Flat Leaver, 0.5 (minus .5 for showing up late). Run on Jen, Run on!