Tights+gloves+jacket= July??? WTF!!!

Swimming, the first real swim since GWN. Warmup. Then 2(8x100) on 2 minutes. First set was steady, and the second was to be more intense. Well. The first set was pretty well all 1:45 or so after the first couple were a bit faster. The second set was one of those times where more effort does not equate to a faster swim. I knew I wasn't being as efficient in the water and didn't feel as strong but couldn't do much about it. My flip turns were slowly turning into flop turns. My watch says I was in the water an hour but I don't quite believe it. I was sharing a lane with 2 girls that swim just a hair faster than I do, so I was working to keep up. Then suddenly they went away and there was a slow guy. Fortunately I discovered this as I was going into cool down.

We had a major thunderstorm today. It got really dark during the mid afternoon, and a bit of pea to grape sized hail came down. Other parts of Calgary got it much worse. The news had reports of one house where the vinyl siding was essentially shredded. One guy had his front window broken out. Several cars lost front and back windshields. One woman called in to say she had kiwi sized hail in her yard.

It was dark off to the south of us and extremely windy as I got ready for my run. Like the title says, I wore tights, a jacket, and gloves. It was 10 C (50 F). Running downwind was nice, that's all I can say. Even through Fish Creek I was still getting a lot of wind. Several trees had large branches broken. Back up 24th St was straight into the wind. Grrrrr. Total 45 minutes, walk and stretch after. Legs felt good throughout, running steady at the pace I'd hoped to run GWN at. Next time...