Weather Watching

I'm terrible at coming up with clever names for things. Case in point, the name of this blog. Fair Weather Runner implies that I only run when the weather is nice. Not the case. If it were, I would not have run here in Tulsa for the last month-and-a-half as it seems to have not stopped raining in that period of time. And before the rain came, it was still unreasonably cold outside. But still, in between storms or despite the cold weather, I would get out and run. Fair Weather Runner, in this case, simply means that I prefer to run in nice weather. Well, duh. Who doesn't? Not clever. It's so not clever and unoriginal that if you Google the phrase "fair weather runner" you get several, several resulting pages with that shared name.
The name does go a long way, though, in demonstrating how running has affected my thought processes. I am now obsessed with the weather. Honestly, it's not hard to be obssessed with the weather when it's as lousy as it's been in Tulsa recently. But I don't think a day passes that I don't look out the window from my little cubicle and make some kind of comment.

"Looks like the sun might be trying to come out."
"Aw, man it's raining!"
"But it was so sunny when I got to work this morning!"
"What is with this wind?"

And, do tell, what is with this wind? If someone says to me one more time, "Well you're in the wrong town if you don't like wind", I'm going to hurt their family. I understand. I'm in Oklahoma. It's windy here. I get it. But it's been excessive this year. As has the cold weather. It's May 13th and I could probably count the number of days that we've had 80+ degree weather so far this year on both hands.
That's right. I long for warmer weather. Anyone who knows me from my pre-running days would tell you that this is a big difference from my previous attitude. I used to loathe hot weather. I'm still not a huge fan of the heat especially the ridiculous triple digits that will be here probably before I know it. But running in cold weather is just so uncomfortable in such a variety of ways that it's just easier to run in the heat.

So today looks like it might just be alright. It was supposed to storm, but when I last checked weather.com (which I do multiple times a day) the rain had been pushed back to later this evening. Fantastic. So I'll get to get my run in today, and then I'll post tomorrow complaining about the heat.

**UPDATE**

It was H-O-T today!!  I was soaked.  What was I thinking wishing the cold weather away?