How are we not getting any rain?

Storms have been circling to the north, south, and west all morning.  The sky has been an odd hazy yet scintillating yellow-grey under darker clouds.  I took the dog out for 1.5 miles fully expecting to feel rain, and then I jogged on the treadmill for an hour fully expecting to see rain, and 5 hours later, the ground is still dry.  Oddly enough, the temperature has risen almost three degrees Celsius in the past hour.  I cannot interpret the significance of this despite my weather-related obsessiveness because I am actually meteorologically ignorant.

The treadmill run was ok.  My energy level was very low yesterday--I didn't do anything except whatever I did at work--and though both I and the air quality felt much better today, my legs were still slightly sluggish.  No matter how I adjusted my form, I couldn't hold onto a truly easy level for more than a few seconds here or there, even though my breathing remained calm.  However, almost exactly 51 minutes into my run, I recaptured that special hip-piston feeling, wherein everything above and below is stacked properly, reducing apparent movement and effort to a slight tilt of the right hip and of the left in alternation.  That's probably the best way to describe it yet, and so from now on, I suppose I'll just be talking about the hip-pistons and if they're firing or not.  Anyway, once they had been firing for a few minutes, I realized that I should then focus on the opposite side lifting up.  Give that stuff a bit more space.  Then, and only then, did everything else loosen.  But it all still felt a bit heavy.  Still, the pace was the same as my last TM run, and it was otherwise an easy run.

And then I did the regular shoulder/clamshell thing I do when I'm not quite up to a zwow.  I also did these exercises on Wednesday.  This hasn't been a zwow week at all, although I have done 1/2 of a MarC workout (mainly core) 3 evenings this week, which has been feeling effective.  Maybe that's sapped some of the zwow juice, but it seems good to do a little something in the evening.

Time for some rain!!!