Runblog (rainblog) Gothenburg, 14/Oct.

I haven’t done a runblog in a while, mostly because I was renovating (and thus avoiding travel; my Flygskam kicking in anyway so I mostly travel to Belgium by train these days), but now I’m in Göteborg (or Gothenburg), and this proved a perfect runblog oppo. Or so I thought at least.

When I woke up, it was still dark (sun comes up around 8am.) No rain, 13°C, perfect weather.

By the time I left the hotel, it was pissing down with rain. So much so, that I actually didn’t see anything. Not because of the dark, but because I’m using one of these Adidas sport glasses for people with glasses (even when they don’t do sports)

http://www.opticsfast.com/sunglasses/adidas-sunglasses/adidas-evileyeexplorera134-6051-1.jpg

Obviously during early morning runs I use it with a clean glass + the small round inside glass with the dioptres… a perfect place to get all the fog stuck. So there I was with the rain covering my outer (clean) lens, fog covering my inner one, in pre-sunrise darkness.

No

sight

whatsoever.

At one point I reverted to using my vanilla sight. Blurry af (-4.5L, -3.5R), but at least not rainy/foggy. Still not great e.g. if there are roadworks in your path… which they were.

Gothenburg right now is a mess. This area here

is basically one big construction site, so practically no way to run through it. (Maybe there was a corridor somewhere but I couldn’t see it… you know, glasses and rain and fog and dark and all.)

So I ended up with a 5k:

And with minimal touristy things to show for it:

Epilogue:

Throughout the day the sun was out and Gothenburg had beautiful weather… I know, because I looked at it from inside an office.

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