Rain, rain, go away!

After last week's "heat wave", the weather has gone to pot in the last few days. Saturday and Sunday we were in the deep freeze. Then today, pouring, driving rain, wind and barely-above-zero temps. Grrr.

Tonight was my clinic for the Around the Bay race. It's a small group and I really didn't much want to go for a run in this shite-for-weather, but we were having a nutrition talk, so I went because I wanted to hear what the RD had to say.

The winds had blown down a tree on the main street in my neighbourhood so, couple with the rain/wind, that made for horrid traffic getting to my clinic. When I got there, I found out that the RD had bailed at the last minute, so we were just going to run - no nutrition talk. Grrrr. Oh, and we were doing hills. I hate hills.

Anyway, I sucked it up and ran the hills. It was dreadful outside, but I still managed to squeek out three hill repeats. The entire workout only took 28 minutes, which is about all I wanted to do tonight. I have another tough workout planned for tomorrow (not on purpose, but I have two clinics running concurrently so every second week I have two back-to-back tough runs).

I've been doing pretty well calorie-wise this week, but I've only seen the scale creep up and up every day. I'm sure it's just PMS, but I still hate seeing numbers go UP instead of DOWN. Grrr.

Oh, and I gave Coffee/Pilot Guy the easy let down. You know, he may just be shy, but I don't really go for shy guys. I like confident guys. Guys who have social ease. And that doesn't mean loud and overbearing - quiet and shy are mutually exclusive characteristics. Quiet confidence is a good thing; cocky confidence is not.

Example: a few years ago, I needed a date for a work event I was going to. I asked a friend (who was actually engaged to someone else at the time) to be my escort. Even though he had never met any of those people before, he didn't need me to hold his hand. He jumped right in and held his own in conversations with my boss and our VP. That's the kind of confidence and character I want in a guy. "Shy" just doesn't cut it with me.