awww...hail no!

Monday's "run"-
Sunday night mother nature blessed us with enough rain to cause some minor flooding, all the while it's raining I was actually thinking..."I hope this stops before morning, I really need to run." I don't know who has kidnapped my thoughts and made them think such things but I wish it would stop.
Monday morning rolls around and I have the feeling that I will not be able to run in the TC due to mud, so I was brainstorming of alternate places to run. Heaven forbid that I just run down the street like a normal person (as we have discussed there are too many avenues to failure when I do that). So, I first decided to go run out by the fairgrounds...little gravel road with a river near by...perfect. As I pulled up I noticed 20-27 campers and tents, this just won't due. An audience is just not necessary. I decided to head to the area right beside the TC, thinking that early in the morning it would be virtually uninhabited...which it was. I took off running on a gravel trail heading east. I did not have the tree proteciton that I like, but there were no spectators so I was ok with the situation. It was a nice overcast morning, actually kind of cool out, LeKyte was having a relatively good running day and I was oblivious to the world.
About 10 minutes into my run I came to the end of the trail which was perfect timing, turn around 10 minutes back and I'm back at the car. I was in amazement as to how well things were going. I said to myself, I said self..."today is really your day!"
As I turned to head back west I realized that today was infact not my day. The sky had a beautiful blue-green tint the wind had picked up to what I'm estimating 48 mph. No wonder I was running with such ease while headed east, I had a 48 mph wind at my back. Which at this point had became a head wind...awesome. The thunder and lightening kicked it up a notch, just to ensure that LeKyte would completely shat her puppy pants...oh wait...yessss, the rain...bring on the rain. Even better, it's sideways rain coming from the west. Double score! Naturally I'm trying to get to the car ASAP, while mother nature is bitch slapping me in the face the entire way.
LeKyte is terrified of storms and is quite insistant on the fact that I hold her. I could not think of anything I wanted to do more at that time. If I was to make a list of things to make this whole process easier, holding my 32 lb. dog while running would have been in the top 5. So, lets review what exactly is going on here shall we?
1. 10 minutes away from my car.
2. 50-60 mph head wind (i found out the actual speed when i finally got to the car and turned ont he radio)
3. sideways rain
4. carrying a 32 lb. puppy who is terrified of storms and flipping out
5. 10 minutes away from the car
6. I don't really care for running
7. thunder and lightening

So, naturally one thinks I had the only logical thought for a time like this..."things could not get any worse". You know who's funny? Mother Nature. She is a pistol! She obviously enjoying the show I was putting on decided to kick it up a notch and said *BAM* (i'm convinced that she does the "bam" thing in an Emeril esq fashion). At this point I actually laugh to out loud and say "seriously, hail...really? Coooome ooooonnnn!" Yep, it started hailing a scoach. We aren't talking like watermelon sized hail here or even softball sized hail. In fact some people would maybe have not noticed that it even happened, however those people were not running in it.

Touche Mother Nature, touche.