Boston 1, Mother Nature 0.
I'll post a real race report when I get home, but wanted to let everyone know that, for probably the first time in recorded memory, the weather guys called it right.
We most definitely had a nor'easter up here this weekend. The original call was for the main storm to hit Monday. As I watched the forecasts over the remainder of last week and the weekend, the weather gurus began moving the time of the main storm up. By Saturday evening, they were calling for the main storm to hit Sunday early evening through Sunday night with very little left after 9 AM Monday. The wind howled and the rain/sleet/snow/rain again pounded on the windows. And it continued to pound all through the night.
I got up at 6AM to head for Boston and, although the winds were slightly diminished and the rain somewhat less, it was still pretty nasty. The upside was that the temp at that hour was 50F. The rains pounded down until just before 10AM when someone must have remembered to turn the faucet off. The rains abruptly stopped. Everything was soaked - ground, streets, trees, you name it. BUT - that wasn't anything else coming out of the skies. Whoohoo.
The wind abated somewhat, but there were plenty of high mileage gusts and all the wind directly in my face the entire time. Several gusts blew me sideways a few feet, several blew me backwards a few feet. I had to laugh - I am struggling through some huge gusts right about the 10 mile mark in Natick Center and what comes on the redpod? "Taking Care of Business" by BTO. 'Zactly what I did and carried on.
Wasn't a spectacular finish for a number of reasons (not the least of which were two pee stops that took about 5 minutes each because of all the clothes), but I was happy with my 5:49:23, given the day.
Could have been ever so much worse. If the main storm had been today, it would have been indescribably miserable.
Definitely Boston 1. Mother Nature 0
A in cloudy, windy Boston where I need to go get something to eat because I am starved.