was registered to run the America’s Finest City Half Marathon in San Diego, California this weekend. I was excited about it for several reasons including but not limited to: half marathons are my fave distance, there aren’t a lot of half marathons in the summer, I was going to stay in San Diego and had a bunch of fun plans for before and after the race. But, none of it happened because the race was CANCELED LAST MINUTE.
Let’s take a few steps back to the days leading up to the race…
I think Wednesday someone mentioned there was a hurricane off the coast of western Mexico and it was headed to Southern California. My response was something along the lines of “No. Hurricane? Ha!”. I’ve lived in SoCal my entire life (outside of that one cute year in Maryland). Hurricanes are not a thing here. Actually, rain in August isn’t a thing here. The average rainfall for August is 0.0 inches. ZERO.
So, I figured it might rain but I didn’t think a real life hurricane was going to hit San Diego.
Thursday morning I heard the local news talking about it and I realized – we’re not in Kansas (or some other place that doesn’t have hurricanes) any more. At that time it was a pretty sizable hurricane and they weren’t sure how quickly it would move or how much it would change in size. The weather forecast for the weekend was estimating a tropical storm would hit the San Diego area overnight Saturday right into Sunday morning race time.
Naturally, I took to Instagram to share this race weekend update and asked for runners familiar with hurricanes and tropical storms to chime in with their thoughts. Since I’m not familiar with this type of weather – I wanted to know if this is the kind of thing you hear before a race is canceled. A lot of runners messaged me saying the weather would be ROUGH, potentially dangerous and many were surprised it was canc
eled yet.
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