{"id":1144,"date":"2014-09-20T14:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2014-09-20T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:07:34","slug":"what-happens-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"What Happens If…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…there is a lightning storm in the middle of a race?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Showers\"<\/p>\n

I have done many, many races now. \u00a0Somehow I have had pretty good luck when it comes to weather. \u00a0I remember one small race that was delayed slightly by passing storms. \u00a0I also remember one Ottawa Race Weekend that looked a little iffy as some black clouds and a bit of lightning followed a path along the Ottawa River but managed to avoid downtown.<\/p>\n

Here is the description of tomorrow from Environment Canada:<\/p>\n

“Showers. Risk of thunderstorms in the morning and early in the afternoon. Amount 30 to 40 mm.” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Lovely. \u00a0Combine that with the Weather Network, which is predicting the “Feels Like” temperature to hit 29 degrees Celsius and things are not looking so great for tomorrow’s Army Run. \u00a0It has made me wonder though, what happens if in the middle of a race the weather gets nasty? \u00a0I know if it happens at the beginning they will delay or cancel. \u00a0But you are\u00a0over in another province, half way through 21 km and they have to shut things down for safety, where do you go? \u00a0Do buses pick you up? \u00a0Do you hope you are near a public building in which you can seek shelter? \u00a0Do you rely on strangers to welcome you into their\u00a0home? \u00a0I had never thought about this scenario. \u00a0What a nightmare that would be for race organizers and participants. \u00a0I’m sure that right know there are some organizers who are watching the weather forecast carefully, praying for changes.<\/p>\n

A final question, do you think weather websites notice a huge increase in hits on big race weekends? \u00a0I have checked 3 weather websites more times than I can count today. \u00a0It is an obsession I can’t stop, even though I know they only update a few times a day. \u00a0Somehow I think if I check often enough it will change for the better. \u00a0Here’s hoping!<\/p>\n

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…there is a lightning storm in the middle of a race? I have done many, many races now. \u00a0Somehow I have had pretty good luck when it comes to weather. \u00a0I remember one small race that was delayed slightly by passing storms. \u00a0I also remember one Ottawa Race Weekend that looked a little iffy as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-is","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}