F You, Weather.com!!

Yesterday (Thursday) I brought clothes to work so I could get a workout in at lunch. It had been raining and kinda gross in the morning, so I had planned to use the gym in our building. But by 12:30 pm the weather had cleared and the sun was shining. Hmm, maybe I'll go for a run outside instead, I thought. I opened weather.com to see if it was going to rain again. I looked at the details for the afternoon and this is basically what I saw:

Time Chance of Precipitation
1 pm 0%
2pm 0%
3pm 5%

So I decided to run outside for 30 minutes. It would sure beat 30 minutes on the treadmill or elliptical in the small, pale green gym in the basement of our building. I put on a Led Zeppelin playlist to make the run's theme "Let the Led out Thursday."

A minute after I got outside I felt little light raindrops on my arms. Ah well, it's probably just a little drizzle, I told myself. So I started my run. The drizzle kept up and gradually turned into a steady, light rain. By this point I was already on the trail, 8 minutes in, but it was rather refreshing so I kept on. By the time I hit my turnaround point the rain was coming down hard and steady, my shirt was soaked. Luckily my shirt was green and not white; unluckily it was cotton and not synthetic. It started coming down harder and thunder rumbled. F'ing weather.com!! Seriously, you said 0% chance of precipiation. Even if you had said 5% at this time I would understand. But 0%!! Thanks a lot.

At this point I had no choice but to keep going until I got back to the office. My iPod was in an armband case that I had tucked under my sleeve. I thought that was enough, but when I was about 4 minutes away from returning to the office my iPod froze on "Ramble On." I tried to turn it off, but it wouldn't respond. I took the armband off my arm and tucked the whole thing into my sports bra. Around this same time the skies opened up and downpoured right on me. Water was gushing down the streets and along the curbs into the drains. My pants were so soaked and heavy they started slipping off my hips. I had to stop and pull them up over my ass so at least I wouldn't be half naked while running through the storm.

I finally got back to the office, literally dripping wet. I had to ring my pants out before I went into the building. My shoes were squeaking as I walked down the hallway into the locker room. I had planned on showering anyways so it didn't really matter that my hair got wet, but it made my clothes and shoes a pain in the ass to handle. I put everything in a plastic CVS bag, I estimated the wet stuff weighed around 7 pounds. My iPod still wasn't working an hour later, and still isn't working the next day (I'm taking steps to dry it out). So a sincere thanks to weather.com for their accurate weather update!