Soggy, but fine

I'm finally posting after Fay came through late last week and did, in fact, mess up my training. In fact, it stopped both our Wednesday run and our long run on Saturday. Honestly, that had more to do with the beer at the hurricane party, and the fact that it was a "short" 8 miler this weekend, but still, it was rough to go that long without running.

The damage was pretty minor. We had a branch down, and some massive bits of our neighbor's scrub pines in our yard. The back yard turned into a swimming pool that was about an inch or two deep, so I couldn't even get any cross training in. Our neighbors had to cut down a tree that about split in their yard, and another neighbor had a big limb come off their tree, so we do have a pretty impressive pile of debris sitting in our cul-de-sac:


Annoying, but it obviously could have been much worse.

However, this morning, as I was getting ready for my run, I found a possible tragic victim of the storm (and it's accompanying power flickers) -- my Garmin 205. It won't power on anymore. I haven't had a chance to try to reset it yet, so I'll check that out after work, but it was terrible to have to run without it. I guess Lana's right... I'm a gadget junkie. And I need my fix. Hopefully, I can reset it with the Mode/Reset/Power buttons, but if not, at least a replacement is relatively cheap at Amazon right now.

At least the Nike+ was still working, so I was able to look at that. It reported 3.56 miles in 32:52 at a 9:13 pace. Not bad for a pretty easy run. Oh, and I also ran with only one of my knee braces on, and it felt a little wonky (like I need to do some exercises for knee stability), but not bad. I had been having some pain with it, and I'm wondering if I've gotten to the point where the knee brace was helping to cause that. I'm going to keep evaluating and see what I can figure out.