10 mile run while waiting for house to flood

woke up to another rainy day and after checking to see that no water had entered the house decided to go run. ran north as i usually do to start out and didn't get that far as the river and tributaries clearly were swelling over and the road north was flooded about a mile up and the trail to the river dead ended also; didn't see the sense to run through 8 inches of water so gail and i headed back down and over to see the river first hand; was high and moving quickly. the fields along the way were covered over in water and it looked more like an ocean than farmland. gail turned at the hostel and headed home, while i headed north on the train trail which i knew would be ok. funny that the people in center and east oxford probably have no idea that west oxford is getting more and more under water.
up the train trail and over walton lane to woodstock road stopping at londi's to buy some water and then back over to the trail and headed south. thought about trying the river but it made no sense and by now i was 6 miles or so into the run. had started feeling better about 4 miles in and decided to go down and come back up and run 10 instead of 8. worked out ok as i finished at the grocery store feeling pretty good and after buying some more yogurt and a tuna sandwich and some granary bread headed home on my 1/2 mile cooldown.
decent effort after slow start and about an hour of the run was in my 70% zone and maybe 7 minutes was just over as i strided out on the hill up from the carpark and did it three times to change the effect of flat ground.

then home to do inside stuff like laundry and bill paying and call my brother, etc. all ok. the driving range is really flooded over and will be useless for awhile. will need a new strategy if i am to get any golf in this week. i did swing the heavy club my daily 30 times and will putt some later inside. the backyard is already a goner so nothing doing back there.

still raining so can only hope the river slows down. time will tell and we will do what we have to. the cats are in for the winter at least. they don't get to go out during the winter months.

and that has been the day so far. lots of web stuff done.also spent 3o minutes getting my lost address book back on line and somehow it is again. not sure how that happened or what i did. doubt it was me.

will stretch and lift some later.
was able to get a live link to gail so she can see the blog but it didn't go live to beth. had lost jill's email which i have again now.
194 and a wakeup to go. it's not viet nam for sure , but i/m not 20 years old anymore either.