Weather and Fitness

On Friday, a friend and I were out in the dog park enjoying the 20C weather. We were starting to head home and were about half way across the field when, looking behind us, there was a huge, black billowing cloud of either dust or rain moving rapidly towards us on the other side of the park; it was so thick that we couldn't see through it. Two things went through our heads - tornado or dust storm. Either one wasn't very pleasant and we started running towards the residential area in case we needed to rapidly get to shelter.

I think I could have run all the way home, if needed. Although definitely running on adreneline, I'm fitter now than when I was 18 yrs old. In a little under two weeks, I'll be doing my first 8k "run", although I'll only be hiking it with a 50lb backpack. My goal by the end of the summer is to do a 5k run and actually run/jog the whole thing. Now all I need is some more scary, black, billowing clouds following me around to keep me in shape.

For the record, it was just a dust storm.