Bummed

MAN! So I wake up the morning of the 5k I'm signed up to run with a friend who specifically asked me to run it with them. I live about an hour and a half away from the run, so 3 hours round trip. The forecast for the area where the run was said 100% chance of thunderstorms during the run hours. That usually means the run is cancelled. They'll usually still run in rain, but not in a t-storm due to the lightning and hail risk. So the race organization page said NOTHING! Nothing at all. Nothing about the race being cancelled, nothing about the race still being on. So I got to choose to risk driving 3 hours to find out it's cancelled, or risk missing the race. I chose to risk missing the race. Guess what....

Everybody from the town that I knew went. No rain. The race went on as scheduled, and one of them even placed in her division. I am PISSED! I mean, we all know damn well that if I had driven the hour and a half to get there, it surely would have rained and been cancelled, so they all thanked me for not coming :)

Sucks! And no lesson learned because you know if I bank on it not being cancelled and drive next time, it'll be cancelled and I'll have wasted 3 hours worth of gas. I think the moral of the story is to try my best to run closeby races where I can afford to go check if it's still on.

BOOOOO!!!