Mother Nature is awfully fickle...

After three weeks of generally gorgeous spring weather, the rain turned to snow last night, and this was the scene at dog-walking time this morning.

I haven't seen a dog bowl forecast this bad in a while!

Fortunately, I didn't have to run in it or go to the gym since today was a Pilates video day. The video seems to be getting easier--I still suck at about half the exercises, but my live class with Kim on Wednesdays is actually harder than the video. Yay for progress!

I am really nervous about tomorrow's group run. We are doing 10 miles. TEN MILES. That's like 16 kilometers, isn't it? I am nervous about running out of fuel and maybe needing to make a pit stop and being cold or roasting and chafing and just plain having to walk pieces of it and having to get up CRAZY EARLY to be there at 7:15.

But the good part is that once I do it, I know I will be able to go the distance on race day. I mean, hey, a half marathon is nothing more than 10 miles plus a 5K, and a 5K is barely more than a warmup these days. (Well, okay, more than a warmup, but it's not very far.) So if I can do 10, I can certainly do 13.1.

I am going to get all my clothes and gels and pretzels and water and Clif bars laid out and cut my BodyGlide out of its packaging, 'cause I am going to be slathering that stuff on tomorrow. I've never used it so it will be another giant experiment, but I have a feeling I'll be glad I did.

OK, I got the scrambled egg pan ready to go and I even have all the utensils laid out. I have three gels and a salt packet already zipped into my pants. It is going to be COLD tomorrow (about 20 degrees when we start running, yikes!!), so I've got my heavy winter pants, two long-sleeve layers on top, and hat and gloves ready to go.

I'm also going to try a sock experiment: on the left foot, I will be wearing a Balega sock, and on the right, an Injinji toe sock. We'll see if one foot is noticeably more or less comfortable than the other one when I'm done.

Time to go to bed! The alarm is set for 5:30 AM...